February 24, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

MayStreet appoints former KCG, Citadel director David Streltsoff as its Head of Business Development

Technology company MayStreet, which specializes in next-generation market-access and analytics software for capital markets firms, today announces the appointment of David Streltsoff, a former director at KCG Holdings and Citadel, as Head of Business Development and a member of MayStreet’s senior management team. Mr Streltsoff joins MayStreet from Citadel LLC in San Francisco, where he…

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February 24, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Alpari adds 30-sec binary options to offering

Retail Forex broker Alpari Limited has added one more binary options type to its offering – binary options with expiration time of 30 seconds. Previously, the shortest expiration period of Alpari's binary options on the BinaryTrader web platform was 60 seconds. The 30-sec period is available for Call/Put options for the following pairs: EUR/USD, GBP/USD,…

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February 23, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Upgraded CQG M app features volume comparison widget

Colorado-headquartered CQG, a provider of data, decision making, and order execution software, has just released version 2.0 of its CQG M application. With the 2.0 release on mdemo.cqg.com, the company has also added a volume comparison widget. Traders can access it by swiping on the chart that is attached to a quote board. The widget…

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February 23, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Boerse confirm merger talks

London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LON:LSE) and Deutsche Boerse AG (ETR:DB1) have just confirmed that they are in talks about a potential merger. The share prices of the two companies have seen a spike today following earlier press reports about the dubbed merger discussions. Key points: The official announcement from the companies states that the…

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February 23, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CySEC issues next Forex broker fine: €100,000 to CommexFX

The Cyprus Securities Exchange Commission (CySEC) today announced that its Board has decided to impose a fine of €100,000 on Forex broker CommexFX Ltd for violations of the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Laws of 2007. The violations were committed in March and April 2015 and consist of “Dealing on own account” without…

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February 23, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Azul Systems upgrades Zulu Embedded JVM to support 32-bit ARM processors

Java runtime solutions provider Azul Systems (Azul) today announces that it has enhanced Zulu Embedded, its open source Java Virtual Machine (JVM) based on OpenJDK. The upgraded solution supports 32-bit ARM processors, the most popular processor architecture for embedded systems. Zulu Embedded now provides support for processors based on the ARM v6, v7 and 32-bit…

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February 23, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Ladbrokes says anticipated merger with Coral on track

Gaming and betting provider Ladbrokes PLC (LON:LAD) has earlier today published its report for the full year 2015, with the report including an update regarding the anticipated merger with certain businesses of Gala Coral Group Limited. Ladbrokes said the merger is on track with shareholders' approval secured in November 2015 and the Competition and Markets Authority…

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