Category: Institutional

December 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Barclays' Absa Bank Limited joins CLS as a new settlement member

CLS Group (CLS), a market infrastructure delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, today announced that Absa Bank Limited (Absa), the South African based bank owned by Barclays Africa Group (JSE:BGA), has joined as a settlement member. Absa joins 66 other leading banks in becoming a settlement member in CLSSettlement, the payment-versus-payment settlement service for the global foreign…

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fxspotstream fx volume
December 04, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream November FX volumes at near record $22.1 billion ADV

Continuing a fairly mixed pattern of results we have seen from other leading institutional FX venues, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that November trading volumes were very strong, in fact the company's third best ever month as far as trading activity goes. Average daily FX volumes in November were $22.1 billion, up 11%…

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December 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Boerse Stuttgart acquires fintech company Sowa Labs GmbH

Boerse Stuttgart announced that it has acquired 100 percent of Sowa Labs GmbH with effect from 30 November. The fintech company, which is based in Ulm, Germany, specialises in predictive data analytics and has been analysing data by using proprietary artificial intelligence since 2013. Its core area of business is real-time analysis of the rapidly…

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Tokyo financial trading TFX
December 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TFX Click 365 November volumes up 7% MoM

Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has also released its trading volumes report for the month of November 2017 with a positive total ADV for all TFX products. The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 89,908 ( - 15.0% MoM / - 60.0% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 4,495. 項目 November   2017…

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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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