The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) today announced the appointment of Scott Manning as Chief Financial Officer, Australia reporting to Deputy Group Chief Financial Officer Shane Buggle. Mr Manning joins from JP Morgan where he has held senior finance and analyst roles for the past 15 years and is currently lead Analyst…
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Global commodities broker Marex Spectron has announced the successful syndication of a new $105 million working capital facility, increased in size from the company's previous $65 million facility. The syndication was led by Lloyds Bank, and included the participants in Marex Spectron's previous $65 million facility - Lloyds Bank, Bank Leumi UK and Barclays Bank -…
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Financial technology company NEX Group plc (LON:NXG) announced that it is the official global sponsor of the drone racing team XBlades. Developed in 2014, drone racing is a motorsport where pilot’s race drones (radio-controlled aircraft or quadcopters) at speeds approaching 120mph around a course in the fastest time possible. The drones are equipped with cameras…
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NEX Markets, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which provides electronic trading technology services in the fixed income and foreign exchange (FX) markets, announced today that following the publication of the FX Code of Conduct (the Code), it plans to adopt the Code’s principles across its FX trading platforms. NEX Markets played an active role in…
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Financial services company Zopa announced today that it will launch its Innovative Finance ISAs (IFISA) in June. Pending final approval from HMRC, IFISA will be available from 15th June with target returns of up to 6.1%. As Zopa expects investing volumes to be high, the company is giving existing investors priority access ahead of new customers, where…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned from industry sources that FX liquidity and prime brokerage services provider IS Prime has returned £3 million in capital to its major shareholder, International Standard Asset Management (ISAM). FCA regulated IS Prime is controlled by ISAM, an alternative asset manager which specializes in quantitative investing. ISAM set up IS Prime…
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Financial technology supplier Star Hat Solutions announced the general availability of their new product, Freebridge and MahiFX as their latest liquidity provider onto their Hub range of products, including Freebridge. With a Freebridge Hub, brokers are able to offer direct, low-latency connectivity into the liquidity they provide to their customers. This completely removes all expensive…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that FCA regulated Forex and CFD brokerage GCM Prime Ltd has named Levy Benarroch as its COO. Mr. Benarroch has also been added to the company's board. Levy Benarroch joined GCM Prime via its acquisition late last year of CMS UK / CapMarFX, where he was Compliance Officer. Prior…
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Along with the news of the underlying architecture for NEX Infinity, NEX Optimisation announced today that it has restructured to organise the business in a way that clients want to consume services and address their own financial, regulatory and operational challenges. The restructure transforms the way NEX Optimisation delivers its services to clients. As part of…
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Well, it looks like FXCM will have some more money to pay back its loan from Leucadia. Pan European exchange group Euronext NV (EPA:ENX) has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire 90% of Forex ECN FastMatch for $153 million in cash, plus a $10 million contingent earn-out. The remaining 10% of FastMatch…
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