The Financial Services Commission, Mauritius (FSC) and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) have announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 08th of June 2018. The MoU was signed by Mr Harvesh Seegolam, Chief Executive of the FSC and Ms Ksenia Yudaeva, First Deputy Governor of…
Read moreInformation giant Thomson Reuters (TSX / NYSE: TRI) has announced that it plans to buy back up to an additional US$1 billion of its shares under a new repurchase program. The new buyback program is in addition to the US$500 million repurchase program that Thomson Reuters announced in May 2018. Thomson Reuters has repurchased approximately…
Read moreIFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have announced that they have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), agreeing to work together to accelerate the growth of green bond markets in Asia. The MOU marks the start of a closer collaboration between MAS and IFC to…
Read moreCopenhagen based Forex and multi asset broker Saxo Bank and Nasdaq, the global provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services, have just announced a cooperation to launch a new digital investment portfolio in the SaxoSelect universe based on Nasdaq Dorsey Wright research. The new portfolio, named Nasdaq DW Global Momentum,…
Read moreNEX Group plc (LON:NXG), a financial technology company at the centre of global markets, has just announced its trading statement for the month of May 2018 and the results are finally good. Spot FX results were 21% up MoM. US Treasury’s numbers also rose with 15% MoM. The complete results can be seen in the…
Read moreBack in the beginning of April, derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has reached an all-time high quarterly average daily volume (ADV) of 22.2 million contracts during first-quarter 2018, up 30% from first-quarter 2017. The numbers continue to increase, as today the company has announced it reached average daily volume (ADV) of 20.1 million contracts…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings a number of further not-yet-disclosed details about Playtech's 2017 acquisition of Forex and multi-asset market maker and white label provider Alpha Capital Markets (formally ACM Group Limited). And, that the "$150 million" deal which saw Playtech buy ACM last year is likely to be completed at a…
Read moreAfter reporting record trading volumes throughout Q1, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that May volumes totaled $645.4 billion, a record for the company. Average daily volumes of $28.1 billion were slightly off FXSpotStream's record in that regard, $28.8 billion set in February 2018 (but as February had 3 fewer trading days, total volumes in…
Read moreContinuing a very strong start to the year for institutional FX platforms, Forex ECN FastMatch has reported that May 2018 FX trading volumes were up 16% from April, with average daily trading volumes coming in at $22.6 billion. That just beats FastMatch's previous best month of May 2017, at $22.5 billion ADV. By comparison, FastMatch…
Read moreAfter setting two consecutive trading volume records in January and February, and then a slowdown in March and April, data from institutional Forex ECN Cboe FX Markets – formerly known as Hotspot FX – indicates that the company saw a marked improvement in activity during May. Cboe FX reported trading volumes of $40.9 billion ADV during…
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