Category: Institutional

fastmatch forex volumes
December 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Euronext's FastMatch reports November institutional FX trading volumes down 1% to $17.8 billion ADV

Leading off our reports of FX trading volumes for November by leading Retail and Institutional eFX platforms, Forex ECN FastMatch data shows a 1% decline in activity from October, although still fairly strong overall in a historical context FX trading volumes at FastMatch averaged $17.8 billion daily in November, versus $18.0 billion ADV in October…

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GTX forex volumes
December 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

GAIN Capital's GTX sees November institutional FX trading volumes flat at $14.6 billion ADV

GTX, the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), has reported flat trading volumes during the month of November - like October, slightly down from the near-record trading volumes seen during the months of August and September. GTX reported total trading volumes of $321 billion in November, down slightly (less than 1%) from…

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November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Velocimetrics partners with CloudShark for better data visibility in trading environments

Velocimetrics, the provider of real-time business flow tracking and performance analytics and CloudShark, the world’s first web-based packet capture management and analysis system have today announced a tie-up, which will enable traders, network operatives and financial IT specialists to have greater visibility into network packets of data. Velocimetrics and CloudShark have collaborated to develop a…

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LCH SA EquityClear extends clearing services with Euronext stocks traded on Turquoise
November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

LCH SwapAgent goes live with Cross-Currency Basis Swaps

LCH SwapAgent, a service for the non-cleared derivatives market, today announced that it has processed its first Cross-Currency Basis Swap. The first trade was conducted between Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank and was a EUR/USD Cross-Currency Basis Swap. The trade was brokered by ICAP, which is part of TP ICAP group, and was processed through…

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November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TP ICAP plc announces the acquisition of Coex Partners Limited

TP ICAP plc (LON:TCAP) announced that it has just acquired Coex Partners Limited, an independent agency broker. Coex has offices in London, Paris and New York. It was founded in 2014 and has 55 brokers. The company provides trade and execution services in listed derivatives and OTC foreign exchange to hedge funds, assets managers and…

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November 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

LCH SA goes live with repo clearing of Belgian debt

Another news today from LCH, as the company announced that it has extended its RepoClear service in LCH SA, its continental Europe-based entity. The Paris-based clearing house is now offering clearing for cash and repo trades on Belgian government bonds. Belfius Bank and KBC Bank were among the first members to clear the new product…

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PrimeXM
November 29, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

PrimeXM announces integration with Azul Zing for its order routing service XCore

Aggregation and connectivity solutions provider PrimeXM has announced that it has been collaborating Java runtime solutions specialist Azul Systems and its Azul Zing to further facilitate the low latency nature of PrimeXM’s proprietary order routing service, the XCore. Zing is a unique Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that has been deployed extensively throughout the financial sector industry.…

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Brokeree Solutions
November 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

REGIS-TR and IHS Markit to collaborate on interoperable SFTR Reporting Solution

REGIS-TR, the pan-European specialist in G20 trade repository services has just announced that it will collaborate with IHS Markit (NASDAQ:INFO), a critical information, analytics and solutions company, to provide a full service reporting solution for Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR) requirements. IHS Markit recently announced that BNY Mellon, Brown Brothers Harriman, Deutsche Bank Agency Lending,…

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