Valentina Kirilova
LeapRate Analyst

Experienced independent writer and journalist with a demonstrated history of working in the global online trading sector.
November 30, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

INTL FCStone Financial unveils comprehensive correspondent clearing services for the middle-market

Company offers enhanced institutional and retail clearing services following Sterne Agee acquisition INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) has announced that the Correspondent Clearing Division of its wholly owned subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial Inc., has unveiled clearing and custody services for middle-market firms following its parent company's acquisition of Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc. in August…

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November 30, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Börse launches new DAX Net Return indices

Deutsche Börse is launching five net return indices thus adding a new calculation version to its DAX family. Deutsche Börse's selection indices were previously calculated as performance and price indices, now, the DAX Net Return (ISIN DE000A1A4D00), DAX Net Return USD (ISIN DE000A1A4D18), MDAX Net Return (ISIN DE000A0Z3ND6), SDAX Net Return (ISIN DE000A0Z3NE4) and TecDAX…

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November 30, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ECommPay to implement Mastercard Dashboard

In August 2016, Mastercard launched its newest risk management system. Mastercard Dashboard is a highly functional anti-fraud technology, dedicated to providing acquirers insights into their merchant clients’ fraudulent statistics. The Mastercard Dashboard is engineered specifically to expand acquirer possibilities, aggregating insights from across the Mastercard global network to provide a detailed overview of merchant transactions.…

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November 30, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Market Misconduct Tribunal fines AcrossAsia Limited, its former chairman and CEO a sum of $2 million

The Market Misconduct Tribunal (MMT) has today fined AcrossAsia Limited (AcrossAsia) $600,000, its former chairman Mr Albert Saychuan Cheok $800,000, and chief executive officer Mr Vicente Binalhay Ang $600,000 after finding they had failed to disclose inside information to the public as soon as reasonably practicable as required under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO).…

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November 30, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Greek broker Eurobank Equities implements Horizon Software for auto trading and market making

Horizon Software, a global technology provider for electronic trading and investment management, has announced today that Eurobank Equities, the brokerage arm of Eurobank, one of the four systemic banks in Greece, has gone live with Horizon Software. Eurobank Equities chose Horizon’s Platform for Automated Trading for click trading, market making and agency trading on the Athens…

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November 30, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Saxo Bank launches new combination order ticket for options trading

Global broker Saxo Bank just announced that it is launching a combination order ticket for all clients trading contract options. The combination order ticket will enable clients to deploy multi-legged option strategies by simultaneously placing orders to buy and/or sell different options from the same order ticket. Georgio Stoev, Futures and Listed Options Product Manager,…

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Corda Network announces Board of Directors
November 30, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

R3 offers global developer community opensource access to Corda distributed ledger platform

Financial innovation company R3 has made its Corda distributed ledger platform open source, granting the global developer community universal access to its source code to encourage collaboration, review and contribution to the platform. Corda was built in close collaboration with over 70 banks and financial institutions and is already by far the biggest collaborative effort…

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November 30, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

OPEC begins debate on oil cuts

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting began on Wednesday in Vienna. Oil producers will try to agree on a production cut to bolster prices which have plunged by more than half since 2014, with Iran and Iraq resisting pressure from Saudi Arabia to participate fully in any action, as reported by Reuters. On…

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November 30, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Japan’s SBI adds smartTrade’s LiquidityFX market making pricing and distribution modules

smartTrade Technologies, a multi-asset electronic trading solutions company, has just announced that SBI Liquidity Market, a Japanese FX infrastructure solution and liquidity provider, complemented its FX platform based on smartTrade's LiquidityFX. SBI Liquidity Market is adding smartTrade’s sophisticated market making solution to the existing implementation of LiquidityFX connectivity, aggregation and order routing in order to…

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