Leading online trading services provider IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) today announced the appointment of Mark Ward as Interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr Ward is a senior partner at accounting firm Deloitte LLP, and for the last three years he has been at the helm of Deloitte's Investment Management and Wealth sector. He is…
Read moreSaxo Markets, the institutional division of multi-asset trading and investment services provider Saxo Bank, today announced a partnership with DELTA N.V., a Middelburg-based provider of energy, waste management, infrastructure and digital services. The companies seek to disrupt the energy wholesale market by connecting the physical energy world to the financial world. Clients get real time…
Read moreThe Chinese yuan has gained share as international payments currency in November 2015, according to the latest SWIFT RMB Tracker. The data shows that the Chinese currency accounted for 2.28% of global payments in November 2015, up from a share of 1.92% in October 2015. The yuan, however, still lagged behind the Japanese yen (2.68%…
Read moreRetail FX broker Alpari Ltd has stopped offering binary options trading on OptionTrader platform, with fx.option accounts no longer supported. According to an announcement on the company's website, trading using fx.option accounts became unavailable effective January 7, 2016. A comment on Alpari's Russian Forum says that the company stopped supporting the platform on January 11, 2016.…
Read moreJapanese online trading company Invast Securities Co., Ltd. (TYO:8709) has just posted key business metrics for the last month of 2015, with operating revenues recovering from November lows, although lagging behind the robust results seen in December 2014. The company reported operating revenues of JPY 281 million ($2.38 million) for December 2015, up 15.2% from…
Read moreThe Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA), a Forex trade body that commenced operations in September 2014, on Wednesday announced the addition of one new member. FXSpotStream, a provider of multibank FX aggregation services, has joined FXPA as an Associate Member. “As a bank-owned consortium bringing greater transparency and efficiencies to the FX market, FXSpotStream is pleased…
Read moreProvider of software and consulting services First Derivatives plc (LON:FDP) is further expanding the footprint of its Kx technology via a partnership with Utilismart Corporation, a meter data management and analytics company with more than 100 clients including electricity, water and gas utilities across North America. FD said today that it has signed a Memorandum…
Read moreBTCS Inc (OTCMKTS:BTCS), formerly known as Bitcoin Shop, Inc., has provided a performance update for last year and struck a positive note about its future operations. The blockchain technology focused company said it generated 1,797 bitcoins for the year ended December 31, 2015 from its transaction verification services, a jump of 3,389% over total bitcoins…
Read moreThe trend of Forex companies launching redesigned websites to meet the sophisticated demands of traders and to offer a mobile friendly environment is gathering pace. The latest company to join the growing group of brokers redesigning their websites is FxGrow, a CySEC-regulated retail Forex broker. FxGrow's website has been overhauled with a special focus on…
Read moreSocial investment expert eToro today announced the addition of a new feature to the new eToro platform. The company notes that since the new eToro was launched in November 2015, traders have come up with interesting suggestions and requests, with the two most requested features being Public History and Trailing Stop Loss. As the Public History feature has…
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