CBOE Hotspot partners with Celer Technologies to provide streaming forwards & NDF trading GUI LeapRate

January 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CBOE Hotspot partners with Celer Technologies to provide streaming forwards & NDF trading GUI

Celer Technologies, a provider of Foreign Exchange trading technology solutions to banks, brokers, buy-side, ECNs and trading venues just announced its partnership with Hotspot, a CBOE Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, and institutional FX trading platform. Celer Tech’s bespoke trading GUI allows customers to access Hotspot’s outright streaming deliverable forward and NDF liquidity. In May…

January 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Euronext takes 11% stake in LCH SA recording €38 million capital gain

Euronext announced closing of the share swap of its current 2.3% stake in LCH Group for an 11.1% stake in LCH SA and becomes minority shareholder of LCH SA. This follows the announcements of 8 August 2017 and 1 November 2017. On 31 October 2017 Euronext entered into definitive agreements to swap its current 2.3%…

January 01, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Cboe FX (Hotspot) December trading volumes down 7% to $31.7 billion ADV

Completing a fairly strong year which included a change-of-control and a new brand name, institutional Forex ECN Cboe FX Markets – formerly known as Hotspot FX – has reported data indicating a slight 7% MoM decline in December trading volumes, $31.7 billion ADV versus $33.9 billion daily in November. Not bad, considering that November 2017 was…

December 31, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

GAIN Capital’s GTX December FX volumes down 23%, but 2017 overall up 25% at $14.3 billion ADV

It was a great year for GTX, the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), although it was a fairly slow December. GTX has reported that trading volumes during the month of December were down 23% MoM to $247 billion versus $321 in November. On an average daily volume basis, December…

December 31, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FastMatch sets 2017 low with December FX trading volumes down 12% to $15.6 billion ADV

Although we haven't yet turned the calendar page from December and the New Year's Day bubbly is still on ice, FX sector trading is already done for the year. And so, we're pleased to present an early LeapRate peek into trading volumes for the last month of of 2017. Leading off our reports of FX…

December 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CSRC and SFC sign MoU to enhance supervisory and enforcement cooperation in futures markets

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) jointly announced today that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding on Supervisory and Enforcement Cooperation on Matters concerning Futures (MoU). The MoU facilitates regulatory and enforcement cooperation in the Mainland and Hong Kong futures markets, and enhances supervisory…

December 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

China Xiniya Fashion Limited announces listing approval by NYSE American

China Xiniya Fashion Limited (NYSE: XNY), announced today that it has received approval from NYSE American LLC to list its American Depositary Share (ADS) on the NYSE American. The approval for the listing application was received on December 27, 2017. The Company expects that its ADS will begin trading on the NYSE American on December…

December 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

UAE based FX provider LuLu Exchange implements Fiserv's AML Risk Manager

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ:FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that LuLu Exchange, which provides cross-border remittance, currency exchange and other financial services for consumers and businesses, has selected Fiserv to enhance its financial crime prevention capabilities and enable its expansion into new markets. LuLu Exchange will implement a cloud-based version of…

Thomson Reuters teams up with Seabury TFX to create new trade finance marketplace in Asia

December 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TAB partners with Thomson Reuters Labs

TAB just announced that it has partnered with Thomson Reuters Labs. TAB's data analysis brings insight to the next generation of finance industry, the online marketplace. TAB data shows that the amount raised through online finance marketplaces has been doubling almost every year since 2012 and, excluding China, has exceeded $35B in 2017 to date,…

December 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AIAF admits to trading the new social bond of Barcelona City Council

AIAF, the Fixed Income Market of BME, today admitted to trading the new social bonds issued by that Barcelona City Council for a total amount of €35 million. The issue is part of the mandate granted to Crédit Agricole CIB by the City Council's Governing Commission to advise, structure and place one or several debt…

Category: Institutional