Hotspot, a CBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ: CBOE) company and institutional FX trading ECN market has announced the first anonymous outright deliverable forward FX transaction executed on the platform. Hotspot is the first platform to provide outright deliverable forwards on an anonymous central limit order book. Further, it is the first platform to allow prime brokerage…
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Institutional FX brokerage ACM Group plc, more commonly known in the industry as just Alpha, has issued its results report for the first half of fiscal 2017 (September 30 year end, first half results are through March 31, 2017). At the half year mark the transformation process that the company began during the previous financial…
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Financial professionals using Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) flagship desktop can now integrate their internal and partner applications through the launch of its Side by Side Integration API. Together with App Studio, Eikon’s third-party developer suite, users can extract even greater value from Eikon through a more seamless workflow on a single desktop. The new API is…
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AxiomSL, the regulatory reporting, data and risk management solutions company, today announced the appointment of Peter Tierney as CEO of the firm’s Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Tierney brings more than 25 years of experience as an enterprise software executive, including his latest role as the regional head of DTCC’s OTC trade reporting initiative and CEO of…
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The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) announced the appointment of John Hinze to Director of Corporate Finance. John is passionate about building vibrant capital markets in British Columbia that will give issuers the capital they need to grow and investors the information and opportunities they seek," said Peter Brady, Executive Director of the BCSC. "He…
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Continuing the string of weak volume reports for the month of April 2017 from some of the leading institutional eFX trading venues, NEX Group PLC (LON:NXG) has reported that its EBS unit saw volumes drop by 12% MoM, coming in at $76.1 billion ADV. That marks EBS's slowest month for trading since August 2016. Overall,…
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Quantexa, the disruptive big data and analytics company backed by HSBC and Albion Ventures, announced that has opened a new office in Brussels. Further offices in Sydney and New York are due to open within the next 12 months. Following on from last month's $3.3 million fund raising, Quantexa's expansion reflects a growing customer base…
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FXStreet appoints Setxi Fernandez as new CEO to replace Carolina May who’s been in that position for almost 5 years Independent Forex market portal FXStreet has announced today that Carolina May, Chief Executive Officer, will be replaced by Setxi Fernandez, partner and current Chief Operating Officer. Carolina May joined FXStreet in March 2007 as Marketing…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Limassol, Cyprus based institutional FX liquidity provider PositivaFX has hired Dominic Poynter as its new Head of Marketing. Dominic Poynter is joining PositivaFX after spending the past three years at retail forex broker easyMarkets as its Director of Marketing Operations, including overseeing that company's rebranding from easyForex to easyMarkets…
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XTX Markets today named Eric Swanson as Chief Executive Officer of XTX Markets (Americas) effective June, 1st 2017. Mr. Swanson is a securities industry veteran, most recently serving as the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Bats Global Markets, Inc. since 2008. Prior to joining Bats, Mr. Swanson served for more than a decade in…
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