Category: Institutional

January 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Virtu Financial completes term loan repricing and prepayment of BondPoint's sale

Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIRT), a technology-enabled market maker and liquidity provider to the global financial markets, today announced the completion of a repricing transaction of its 1st Lien Senior Secured Term Loan along with a principal prepayment of $276 from the proceeds of its previously announced sale of BondPoint to Intercontinental Exchange (NASDAQ:ICE). Following the…

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LCH
January 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

LCH achieves a record year for volumes in 2017

LCH, a global clearing house, today announced record volumes across multiple clearing services in 2017. LCH’s equities, fixed income, and OTC derivatives clearing services all surpassed previous years’ clearing activity. Volumes growth across the business has been driven by the roll-out of new products, effects of regulatory change and the onboarding of new customers across…

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acquisition
January 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

TP ICAP plc announces the acquisition of SCS Commodities Corp

TP ICAP plc announced that is has acquired SCS Commodities Corp, an independent energy and commodities broker based in the US. SCS has expertise in crude oil futures, soft commodities, petroleum and refined products, natural gas options and crude oil options. It has 26 brokers who provide clients with continuous coverage of energy markets around…

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Cboe volumes
January 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe Global Markets reports annual trading volume, several records set in 2017

Exchange holding company Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has just reported its December and full-year 2017 trading statistics. The data sheet "Cboe Global Markets Monthly Volume & RPC/Net Revenue Capture Report" contains an overview of certain December and full-year 2017 statistics. Annual Trading Records Set in 2017 Several trading records were set for the…

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January 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Metzler Asset Management selects Visible Alpha for MiFID II research tracking

Metzler Asset Management GmbH (Metzler) announced today the implementation of a new process for discovering, tracking and valuing research through the selection of Visible Alpha’s ONEaccess Platform. The addition of the ONEaccess Forward Calendar, Resource Tracking and Broker Vote applications enable the company to meet the compliance obligations associated with MiFID II regulations, particularly those…

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CME Group record
January 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group reaches several annual average daily volume records in 2017

Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) announced that 2017 average daily volume (ADV) reached a record 16.3 million contracts, up 4 percent from 2016. During 2017, there were 34 trading days above 20 million contracts, up from 32 days in 2016, despite significantly lower volatility. CME Group reached several annual average daily volume records in 2017.…

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Cboe volumes
January 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe LIS hits new milestone of €20 billion traded since launch

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) today reported that Cboe Europe Equities traded more than €20 billion in notional value on Cboe LIS, its European large-in-scale block trading platform powered by BIDS technology, since it launched in December 2016. Additionally, December was another record month of volume for Cboe Europe Equities’ Periodic Auctions order book,…

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