Category: Institutional

Monex teams up with Shizuoka Bank to launch financial instruments intermediary services
October 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monex Group’s Global DARTs up 2% MoM in September

Monex Group, Inc. (TSE 8698, Oki Matsumoto, Representative Executive Officer and CEO) today reported the following monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in September 2017. Global DARTs (DARTs stand for Daily Average Revenue Trades meaning the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) were up 2% MoM to 263,056. Number of total…

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October 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Gemalto enables Oracle Cloud customers to boost security of data in motion and at rest

Gemalto, digital security and Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, has just announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers can enhance the security of their cloud workloads and reduce the complexity of managing multiple heterogeneous security solutions with an integrated SafeNet Encryption and Key Management offering. As companies migrate to the cloud, protecting sensitive information efficiently…

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cme group fx volumes
October 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group reaches ADV of 17 million contracts in September, up 6% MoM

Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announced that September 2017 average daily volume (ADV) reached 17 million contracts, up 13 percent compared with September 2016 and a rise of 6% MoM. CME Group September 2017 options volume averaged 3.6 million contracts per day, up 25 percent versus September 2016, with electronic options averaging…

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DFSA launches Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform
October 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Mandiant has concluded forensic investigation of cybersecurity incident

Potentially impacted U.S. consumers increased by 2.5 million Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) announced today that the cybersecurity firm Mandiant has completed the forensic portion of its investigation of the cybersecurity incident disclosed on September 7 to finalize the consumers potentially impacted. I was advised Sunday that the analysis of the number of consumers potentially impacted…

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fxspotstream fx volume
October 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream sees record FX volumes in September, hires Tom San Pietro from Thomson Reuters as CTO

Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that it recorded the highest average daily volume as well as overall monthly volume since the service was founded nearly six years ago. The current month's volume exceeds the company's previous volume record set in November 2016, which included the daily volume high of USD $49 billion on US…

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October 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

REGIS-TR commences trade repository services in Switzerland

Today, REGIS-TR, the European Trade Repository, has launched its services in the Swiss market. It had been recognized in April by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) as a foreign repository. This service will allow participants to comply with their obligation to report under the Financial Market Infrastructure Act (FMIA), also known under the…

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October 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Derivatives Service Bureau launch real time ISINs for OTC Derivatives

The Derivatives Service Bureau announced that has launched its real-time International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) creation service today and users can now create OTC derivative ISINs and obtain associated reference data to address regulatory reporting obligations and processing requirements. A year after the initial announcement of the core functionality of the first automated global ISIN-allocation…

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playtech acquires acm group alpha
October 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Playtech completes $150 million acquisition of ACM Group (Alpha)

Online gaming and financial trading systems provider Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) has announced that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of market maker ACM Group Limited (Alpha). The deal was completed as a sale of assets from ACM. In August Playtech revealed its agreement to acquire the fast-growing privately held Alpha, in a structured transaction…

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