ADS Securities London Limited, the FCA regulated arm of Abu Dhabi based global international financial services firm ADS Securities LLC, has released its 2016 financial results indicating that the company continued to grow in its first full year of operation after opening a London office in early 2015. ADS London reported Revenues of £5.4 million in 2016,…
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Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announced that July 2017 average daily volume (ADV) reached 14 million contracts, down 1 percent compared with July 2016. CME Group July 2017 options volume averaged 2.9 million contracts per day, down 8 percent versus July 2016, with electronic options averaging 2 million contracts per day, up…
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Just days after announcing an official partnership with Real Madrid, FCA and CySEC regulated retail forex broker Exness announced another partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo, winner of four FIFA Ballon d'Or awards and the first player in the world to win four European Golden Shoes. The partnership follows the announcement of Exness' partnership with Real Madrid for…
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During the last week of April, Eurex Clearing, LCH Swapclear and CME have simulated the default of a major participant – based on the Brexit market conditions as of 24 June 2016. At Eurex Clearing, the defaulted member’s portfolio represented one of the largest clearing members with open positions in listed equity (index) derivatives, pending…
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The European Energy Exchange (EEX) and IncubEx have announced a partnership to build and improve liquidity in environmental and other related contracts. In this framework, the partners aim to increase the number of active participants at the exchange and to create a global trading network. The cooperation involves existing environmental products and aims to continuously…
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The Regulatory Reporting Hub of Deutsche Börse Group announced that has launched a partnership with Risk Focus and its software subsidiary, RegTek.Solutions, headquartered in New York. Risk Focus will provide key system components for the Regulatory Reporting Hub’s OTC Trade Reporting solution, including RegTek.Solutions’ Validate.Trade product. The functionality of the components provided by Risk Focus…
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Continuing the string of flat to slightly-down FX trading volumes at leading eFX platforms we’ve seen for the month of July, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has reported that volumes on its system were down 14% MoM, coming in at $17.6 billion ADV. We'd note that June was a near-record month at FXSpotStream, with ADV…
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Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that it has acquired the assets of PCLender, LLC, a next generation enterprise internet-based mortgage software and mortgage lending technology solutions company. This acquisition will enhance the Fiserv suite of mortgage origination services, which enable Fiserv clients to deliver the experience…
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Staff at the Bank of England will today (Tuesday 1 August) start a three day strike at the bank. Members of the UK’s largest union, Unite, are holding a demonstration outside the bank’s London office at 8.15 am today to mark the start of a historic strike over pay. The Labour shadow chancellor of the…
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Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) has published their Forex volume metrics for June 2017, with spot FX volumes rising to $93 billion, up 9.4% MoM from May’s $85 billion. This was the platform's best performing month since March for spot volumes (see chart above) when the US dollar lost a bit of steam due to a Dovish Fed and…
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