NEX Group plc (LON:NXG) announced that on 21 February 2017 the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York dismissed two entities which formed part of the ICAP Group (ICAP plc and ICAP Europe Limited) from a class action case brought by various investors who alleged manipulation of the Euro Interbank Offered…
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CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) announced that it will join the S&P 500®, effective at the open of trading on Wednesday, March 1. Edward Tilly, CEO of CBOE Holdings, commented: We are honored to join ranks with other great blue chip companies listed in the S&P 500. This recognition highlights our company's continued strong growth…
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INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ:INTL) just announced that its London-based subsidiary, INTL FCStone Ltd, Precious Metals' division is delivering unprecedented global market access to gold trading around the world with the launch of their premium-based, physical trading platform, PMXecute+. PMXecute+ allows customers access to INTL's entire global inventory and network of trusted supply partners. Customers who do…
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INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) just announced that the Broker-Dealer Rates Group of its wholly owned subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial Inc., has entered the U.S. agency commercial mortgage-backed (Agency CMBS) market. The Company also disclosed today that it has expanded its asset-back securities (ABS) trading to all investment grade categories. The launch of the Agency…
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Swiss interdealer broker Compagnie Financiere Tradition SA (SWX:CFT) announced that has delivered an initial margin optimization in FX, after extending its partnership with LMRKTS, a compression and analytics provider. Tradition and LMRKTS announced a strategic partnership in 2016 to handle execution and compression processing for G10 FX Forwards. Earlier this month, the two firms completed…
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Dow Jones Risk and Compliance, a provider of anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and sanctions compliance data solutions, has completed the acquisition of RiskAverter from U.S.-based Compliance Strategies International, LLC. RiskAverter’s innovative solution enables companies to automate risk “scoring” so they can quickly and effectively assess third parties in relation to anti-corruption and other regulatory compliance risk…
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, just announced that has successfully completed testing of blockchain-based technology for the clearing and settlement of repurchase, or repo, agreement transactions, and will decide by June whether to deploy the new system, Reuters reported. DTCC, a utility that…
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CloudMargin, the creator of the world's first web-based collateral and margin management solution, and SmartDX from Smart Communications, the industry standard for automating trade and relationship document generation, collaboration and processing in the capital markets, just announced that have partnered to address the Daily Variation Margin (VM) Rule that goes into effect March 1 in…
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The European Energy Exchange (EEX) and the independent carbon trading company Belektron have signed a cooperation agreement to further facilitate access to the primary market auctions at EEX. The cooperation aims at opening the emissions auctions to a wider customer base, in particular, for smaller and medium-sized companies (SMEs). Belektron will act as an intermediary…
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Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has carried out a 150 million US dollar Islamic financing transaction on the Murabaha platform of Nasdaq Dubai, the international financial exchange serving the Middle East and Africa. The transaction was executed to facilitate the issuance by AFC of a 150 million US dollar Sukuk, which was the first US dollar…
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