Multi asset global clearing house LCH has announced that Daniel Maguire (pictured above) has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of LCH Group, with immediate effect. The appointment follows Suneel Bakhshi’s decision, earlier this summer, to step down from his role as Chief Executive Officer of LCH Group after four years in the role. The…
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Dow Jones has announced a new partnership with Curation Corporation, a risk monitoring and content specialist, offering curated news briefings that provide customers with timely insights on peripheral risks, emerging disruptive trends and new business opportunities. Peripheral risks are typically found outside the parameters of traditional risk monitoring, but may have a dramatic and substantial…
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NEX Group PLC (LON:NXG)'s post trade division NEX Optimisation announced today that Baton Systems, a high-speed payments infrastructure provider, has joined NEX Infinity as the first third party to provide its services through the platform. The news comes only a day after NEX Optimisation's "significant restructure" announcement. NEX Optimisation and Baton have been working in…
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CBOE Holdings, Inc. today unveiled its new name, Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (BZX: CBOE |NASDAQ: CBOE), identity and mission at the Futures Industry Association (FIA) Expo 2017 conference, currently taking place in Chicago. The changes were made to better reflect the evolving nature and spirit of the company and follows the acquisition of Bats Global…
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Clearstream, the post-trade services provider of Deutsche Börse Group, and Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG (dwpbank), one of the largest securities services providers for Germany’s financial market, have entered into a strategic partnership regarding the settlement of securities in a post-T2S world. The goal of this long-term cooperation is to maximise the benefits from the ECB’s…
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Leveraging distributed ledger technology and cloud services, BBVA and BBVA Bancomer are piloting an FX matching application developed by Calypso Technology, a provider of cloud-based cross-asset trading software solutions for the financial markets, and enterprise software firm R3. The application, which runs on R3’s Corda platform and is facilitated by Calypso’s cloud services, has already…
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CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market today published its operating metrics for the month of September 2017. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.750 trillion up 10.7% from USD1.581 trillion in August 2017. September 2016 August 2017 September 2017 Average daily traded volume…
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Horizon Software, the global provider of electronic trading and investment management technology, has today announced that Guohai Liangshi Capital Management Co Ltd (GHLS),the subsidiary company of Guohai Futures, has chosen Horizon’s platform for options market making and trading, as well as delta one trading. Guohai Liangshi Capital Management Co Ltd, the subsidiary of Guohai Liangshi…
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SIX Swiss Exchange is to partner with London Stock Exchange Group to establish a link to their UnaVista service to facilitate transaction reporting for products admitted to trading on SIX Swiss Exchange for remote participants. The service from UnaVista will allow remote participants of SIX Swiss Exchange to fulfil their reporting obligations under the Swiss…
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OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of financial markets for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, announced that Continental Stock Transfer & Trust has joined OTC Markets' Transfer Agent Verified Shares Program. OTC Markets Group launched the Transfer Agent Verified Shares Program initiative with the goal of providing investors current and reliable share data on…
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