Category: Financial Services

SGX
February 14, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SGX sees strong performance in January

SGX said: There was reduced volatility in the renminbi (RMB) ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays, with the traded volume of SGX USD/CNH Futures declining in tandem. However, month-end open interest of the contract gained 12% m-o-m to more than US$11 billion, signaling its growing adoption as a hedging tool. The SGX contract is…

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Euronext
February 11, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Euronext reports 46.9% jump in revenue in 2021

The company’s EBITA for 2021 was €752.8 million, registering a 44.8% increase compared to the previous year with a margin of 58.0%. The Group saw net income of €413.3 million, up 31% compared to 2020. The adjusted earnings per share were €5.47, increased by 17.2%. Stéphane Boujnah, Euronext’s CEO and Chair, commented: Euronext delivered a…

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February 09, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group operating income rises 22.5% in Q4 2021

Clearing and transaction fees revenue for the final quarter came in at $949 million. Market data revenue for the same period was $142 million. The revenue for the full year in turn, was $4.7 billion. Operating income reached $2.6 billion, while net income stood at $2.6 billion, with diluted EPS at $7.29. The adjusted net…

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February 09, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Pico launches Corvil Electronic Trading Data Warehouse

The new solution also offers full trade traceability from issuer to market to isolate degraded decision and transmission latencies, transaction completeness monitoring and reconciliation across inter and intra-plant to detect lost messages and discrepancies in real-time. Clients can also benefit from live order state monitoring to track open position, close open orders and reconcile client/market…

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Eurex
February 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Eurex witnesses record euro clearing volumes in January

The exchange stated: Also, in its listed business Eurex saw a good start into the new year. In terms of traded contracts, equity index derivatives stood out in particular, growing by 6 percent year-on-year to 65.7 million in January. Interest rate derivatives contracts traded also grew – by 4 percent to 45.2 million year-on-year. Equity…

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February 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Credit Suisse faced with money laundering charges

This customer had started placing suitcases full of cash in a safe deposit box at Credit Suisse. He was later shot dead in 2005. The prosecutors believe that Banev and his associates used a practice called smurfing. This entails breaking down a large sum of money into smaller amounts, which are below the AML alert…

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Aquis Technologies teams up with Investre
February 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Aquis Technologies announces partnership with Investre

Trading of tokenised funds The partnership will enable trading of tokenised, actively managed funds, specifically UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) funds. The UCITS trading is planned to launch in 2022. Founder and CEO of Investre Georges Bock explained: Our vision is to have tokenised funds traded online and, one day, to trade…

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CFTC
February 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFTC files charges in a multi-million dollar futures and forex fraud

Details of the fraudulent scheme The CFTC alleges that W Trade Group and Ramos have misappropriated over $19 million from 220 customers. To maintain the scheme, W Trade Group and Ramos sent customers false account statements showing them purported profits and trading activity, when in fact there was none. The other defendant, Carvajales, conjunction with…

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Cboe Global Markets
February 04, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Cboe Global Markets sees record futures volumes in January

The company also said: Total market share for Cboe's four U.S. equities exchanges increased to 14.5 percent in January, up from 13.3 percent in December 2021. Cboe's four U.S. equities exchanges accounted for approximately 17.5 percent of total U.S. ETP trading volume during January, up from 16.5 percent in December 2021. The figures in EU…

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