FXCM Group and Jefferies Financial Services expand FX Prime Brokerage relationship LeapRate

April 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXCM Group and Jefferies Financial Services expand FX Prime Brokerage relationship

Retail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC together with Jefferies Financial Services, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, has announced that the two companies have expanded their FX Prime Brokerage relationship. Jefferies is quickly becoming a preeminent service provider in the prime brokerage space and we’re very happy to be expanding our relationship with…

April 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ICAP launches new Australian Energy Hub

ICAP Energy Australia and New Zealand, part of interdealer broker TP ICAP group, has just announced the launch of its new Australian Energy Hub, which will provide greater price transparency in the Australian gas market. The Energy Hub builds on the existing capability of the ICAP Fusion platform, which currently provides volume matching sessions for the…

April 20, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

NSD conducts first Federal Treasury repo auction with a floating rate

On 12 April 2018, Russia’s Federal Treasury has informed that it has successfully conducted its first repo auction with a floating rate via National Settlement Depository’s Collateral Management System (CMS). The amount of concluded transactions reached RUB 60.7 billion. Federal Treasury repos with a floating rate is a new product in NSD’s CMS product range.…

April 20, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

HSBC strengthens energy policy

HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HSBC) has announced a withdrawal from the coal fired power sector, as part of its efforts to support a transition to a low-carbon economy. In 2011, HSBC decided to significantly restrict its support for new coal-fired power plants and effectively ceased financing them in 78 developed countries. It will now stop financing…

April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Visible Alpha receives ISO 27001 certification

Visible Alpha has just announced that it has received ISO 27001 certification from Schellman & Company, LLC, an ANAB and UKAS accredited Certification Body based in the United States for its information security management system (ISMS) supporting the Visible Alpha Services. ISO 27001 Certification published by the International Organization for Standardization is the leading international…

April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Clearstream’s new offering takes T2S cross-border

Deutsche Börse Group’s post-trade services provider Clearstream has announced that it has successfully migrated the Belgian, Dutch, French and Italian markets onto its new TARGET2-Securities (T2S) Investor-CSD model. It thereby brings the first real cross-border volume onto the ECB’s pan-European settlement platform. With this move, the vision of a harmonized settlement landscape for securities across…

April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group releases record trading volumes in Q1 2018

CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has published its operating metrics for the month of March. These show that Q1 2018 has been a record for CLS with the highest traded volumes submitted to the service ever, topping Q1 2013. Average daily traded volume submitted…

April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Chubb launches proprietary online Cyber Risk Index

Chubb, cyber risk assessment and underwriting company, has announced that it has launched its Chubb Cyber IndexSM, a new interactive platform that showcases nearly two decades worth of Chubb's proprietary commercial cyber claims data. The Index is designed to highlight a range of cyber threats based on an organization's industry and size. We're thrilled to…

April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SSW selects Cboe Europe as technology provider

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has just informed that SSW, an innovative pan-European liquidity provider in a very broad universe of instruments, has started its Systematic Internaliser (SI) business by utilising Cboe Europe’s SI technology services to efficiently connect to and service their clients. Cboe offers a comprehensive suite of SI services for participants…

April 17, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: CySEC licensed institutional FX broker PositivaFX acquired and rebranded to ATFX, expands to Retail

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that ATFX has expanded to Cyprus, acquiring control of CySEC licensed institutional FX broker PositivaFX. ATFX is a co-brand shared by a number of different entities globally including FCA regulated AT Global Markets (UK) Limited in the United Kingdom, ATFX Global Markets (CY) Limited in Cyprus, AT Capital Markets Limited…

Category: Institutional