Category: Institutional

April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats launches new benchmark indices for ten European markets

Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, today announced the launch of new benchmark indices for ten additional European markets. Bats now offers real-time, high-quality and low-cost alternatives to those provided by the incumbent index providers across all major European markets. The new Bats Indices covering ten markets include: Bats Austria 20 Bats…

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April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFTC announces Andrew B. Busch as the Commission’s first Chief Market Intelligence Officer

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo announced that Andrew B. Busch has been named the Commission’s first Chief Market Intelligence Officer. After spending 30 years in the financial services sector, Mr. Busch comes to the CFTC from the boutique economic research company he founded, Bering Productions Inc. (BPI), where he was…

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April 04, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream forex volumes flat in March at $18.8 billion ADV

Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has reported that volumes on its system were fairly flat in March, for the third month in a row. Average daily volume at FXSpotStream came in at $18.8 billion in March - versus $18.7 billion in February and $18.9 billion in January. In context, however, FXSpotStream’s volumes were not as…

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April 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

GTX sees record forex ECN volumes in March, up 23% MoM

GTX, the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), has reported that March trading volumes in its system increased nicely from what was a fairly quiet February. 2017 started off extremely strong at GTX, with record ECN / SEF volumes of $12.1 billion ADV in January. However trading activity cooled…

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March 31, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

UK Bond Network launches Innovative Finance ISA

FCA-authorised UK Bond Network (UKBN), the alternative finance provider that specialises in structuring and distributing investment opportunities in secured corporate bonds, has launched its Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) following regulatory approval. UK Bond Network is among the few peer-to-peer platforms to have been approved to date and has partnered with Goji, a specialist builder of P2P…

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March 31, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

BrokerTec Europe completes e-MID SIM SpA acquisition

BrokerTec, NEX Group (LON:NXG)’s global electronic fixed income trading platform, announced today that following Bank of Italy approval it has completed the transaction to acquire a majority stake in e-MID SIM SpA (e-MID), the first Italian electronic central limit order book (CLOB) platform for interbank deposits and Overnight Indexed Swaps (OIS). The transaction offers BrokerTec…

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