November 03, 2016 BY Mike Fox

PFSOFT's multi-asset platform now supports bond trading

PFSOFT, the global developer of brokerage and trading solutions, has enhanced its brokerage solution today announcing a new bonds trading functionality. Broking and market creating capabilities of the Protrader solution in regards to bonds allow to issue and execute internally as well as via API integration government bonds, T-bills a and corporate bonds. From now…

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November 03, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Dukascopy launches EUR/RUB currency pair for trading

It was just announced today from Swiss Forex Bank and Marketplace Dukascopy they have expanded their range of FX instruments. Available now Euro to Russian Ruble (EUR/RUB) has been added on live trading platforms. Maximum leverage on EUR/RUB is set to 1:10. The new currency pair is available only for self traders' accounts.

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November 02, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Moscow Exchange Forex volumes dip 6.1% MoM

Moscow Exchange today announced trading volumes for October 2016. Total exchange trading volumes increased by 5.5% YoY to RUB 70.8 trln. The FX market cooled off both MoM and YoY. The Money Market posted the strongest growth, with volumes increasing by 59.4% YoY.  Open interest on the Derivatives market grew 32.1% YoY to RUB 728.4 bln.…

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November 02, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Blackwell Global hikes margin requirements by 2x, 3x for Presidential Election

It was just announced today that UK-FCA regulated FX brokerage Blackwell Global in light of the 58th quadrennial United States presidential election being held on Tuesday, 8 November, 2016, Blackwell Global will increase the margins on selected instruments from Sunday, 6 November 2016, 9:00pm (GMT). The firm's Cyprus regulated office had announced the same margin adjustments…

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November 02, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Bats completes acquisition of Javelin SEF - deal broadens FX offering

Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS) today completed its acquisition of Javelin SEF, LLC (Javelin), a swap execution facility (SEF). The deal was announced on August 11, 2016 and received approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on October 23, 2016. Javelin has been integrated with Bats Hotspot, the institutional FX trading platform, in…

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October 28, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Kraken launches digital asset Zcash for trading

San Francisco based global digital asset exchange Kraken today launched for trading the most hotly anticipated digital asset of 2016 in Zcash (ZEC). Zcash has a highly regarded development team and investment from major VC firms (Pantera, Fenbushi, and The Digital Currency Group) and Bitcoin VIPs (Roger Ver, Erik Voorhees, Barry Silbert, and Li Xiaolai).…

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October 28, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Tools for Brokers updates its binary options platform

The binary options industry has been expanding  over the past several years. The simplicity of the instrument made it very popular among  traders. This caused the emergence of numerous binary brokers. The unregulated environment allowed  startup binary brokers to operate on the market without any barriers.  As a result, unregulated binary brokers and their fraudulent…

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October 25, 2016 BY Mike Fox

BitPay introduces Copay bitcoin wallet integration based on Intel Technologies

Leading bitcoin payments company BitPay today announced the first bitcoin wallet with Intel hardware security integration. This new solution will allow Copay users to rest assured that their data is better protected even if their application code or associated computer is compromised. The Intel Software Guard Extensions integration offers hardware-level protection for the bitcoin wallet’s…

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October 24, 2016 BY Mike Fox

TriOptima and SwapClear include first client-cleared trades in triReduce swap compression

TriOptima, a leading provider of OTC derivatives post-trade risk management services and infrastructure, announces today that the first client-cleared trades were included in the most recent SwapClear compression cycle for Canadian Dollar (CAD) interest rate swaps. The entire CAD cycle had 18 participants who eliminated $1.38 trillion CAD (US$ 1.05) in notional principal. Client-cleared trades…

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