Valentina Kirilova
LeapRate Analyst

Experienced independent writer and journalist with a demonstrated history of working in the global online trading sector.
March 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

JP Morgan starts trading in SIX Swiss Exchange Liquidnet Service SLS

SLS, a long-standing partnership of SIX Swiss Exchange with Liquidnet, just announced that will give JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) access to genuine block liquidity with unrivaled average execution size, providing maximum price improvement and minimal market impact. SLS unites participants with over 830 buy-side institutions actively trading more than 3'100 large-, mid- and small-cap stocks across…

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March 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group Index Derivatives Expert Sean Smith joins FTSE Russell

FTSE Russell, the global index and data provider, announced that Sean Smith has joined the firm as Managing Director of Derivatives Licenses, to lead the company’s efforts to further expand its options and futures business. Dozens of FTSE Russell indexes are used as the underlying benchmarks for options, futures and OTC cleared derivative products. Indexes…

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March 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Canada Goose lists on Toronto Stock Exchange

Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) announced Canada Goose, a maker of Arctic luxury apparel, began trading on TSX this morning under the symbol TSX:GOOS. Canada Goose is the largest retail IPO year-to-date 2017 on TSX. TSX is extremely proud to welcome Canada Goose to the market. Made in Canada and an iconic global brand, TSX is…

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March 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC adds Southbourne Group to its alert list

Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…

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MOEX launches trading in sunflower seed futures
March 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX February market report with trading ADV down 2% MoM

The Moscow Exchange (MOEX) released its February market report with ADV down 2% MoM. The trading volume of stocks totalled RUB  662 bn in February. The average daily trading volume was RUB 34.9 bln, down 2% MoM. The T+2 sector made up 99.7% of the total secondary market trading volume and the T0 sector accounted for 0.3%.…

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March 16, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Singapore fintech startup Invictus turns to IBM for blockhain support

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced Singapore fintech start-up, INVICTUS, is collaborating with them to leverage IBM Cloud and Blockchain technologies for their Order, Logistic & Payment (OLP) platform. The platform aims to help businesses reduce wastage, redundancy and cash-flow issues in their transaction processes by disrupting the supply chain management cycle with blockchain smart contract…

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March 16, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Clearstream February report: TARGET2-Securities success needs to be followed up by full market integration

Enormous amounts of data are inserted into and have to be processed by the European Central Bank’s securities settlement platform TARGET2-Securities (T2S) day by day. This however does not mean that T2S has already achieved its ultimate goal, Clearstream reported. The technical integration of the European settlement systems can only be a first step,” says…

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