Category: Institutional

February 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FOREX.com partners with TradingView and launches advanced charting to US customers

GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP) today announced a new partnership with TradingView to make TradingView's charts available to its FOREX.com U.S. customers. TradingView provides one of the most powerful web-based charting platforms available today. In keeping with our commitment to provide the best trading tools to our customers, we are thrilled to be working…

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ADS Securities management
February 28, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

ADS Securities hires Goldman Sachs veteran Adam Clayton to head Investment Banking

Abu Dhabi based global forex brokerage firm ADS Securities has announced that it has hired Adam Clayton as Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking. Reporting directly to ADS Securities Vice Chairman and CEO Philippe Ghanem, Adam Clayton joins ADS from the Goldman Sachs International unit of global investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) where he…

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February 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX Exchange appoints Mireille Dyrberg to its Board

NEX Exchange, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which operates a regulated, UK stock exchange for small and medium companies, announces today that it has appointed Mireille Dyrberg to its Board as a Non-Executive Director. Mireille is Chief Operating Officer of TriOptima, a NEX Group business which lowers costs and mitigates risk in OTC derivatives markets.…

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February 27, 2017 BY admin

FX platform 360T hires Simon Jones as Chief Growth Officer

360T Group, Deutsche Börse Group’s powerhouse for FX and independent global provider of a multi-bank, multi-asset trading platform, continuous to invest in accelerating its strong growth path by making a high-caliber addition to its Management. Simon Jones (pictured above) has been appointed as Chief Growth Officer and will be a member of 360T’s Global Executive…

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INTL FCStone opens its know-risk platform to broader market
February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

INTL FCStone Financial launches Agency Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities trading

INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) just announced that the Broker-Dealer Rates Group of its wholly owned subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial Inc., has entered the U.S. agency commercial mortgage-backed (Agency CMBS) market. The Company also disclosed today that it has expanded its asset-back securities (ABS) trading to all investment grade categories. The launch of the Agency…

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February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Dow Jones acquires RiskAverter and bolsters third party risk business

Dow Jones Risk and Compliance, a provider of anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and sanctions compliance data solutions, has completed the acquisition of RiskAverter from U.S.-based Compliance Strategies International, LLC. RiskAverter’s innovative solution enables companies to automate risk “scoring” so they can quickly and effectively assess third parties in relation to anti-corruption and other regulatory compliance risk…

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February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CloudMargin and SmartDX collaborate to help derivatives market participants meet new variation margin rules

CloudMargin, the  creator of the world's first web-based collateral and margin management solution, and SmartDX from Smart Communications, the industry standard for automating trade and relationship document generation, collaboration and processing in the capital markets, just announced that have partnered to address the Daily Variation Margin (VM) Rule that goes into effect March 1 in…

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February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nex Group's Traiana launches electronic management of confirmations and payments for equity swaps

Traiana, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which monitors pre-trade risk and automates post-trade processing of financial transactions, announces today that it has launched Swaps Centre, a suite of services which enable swaps providers to electronically manage payments and confirmations in equity swaps. By sending confirmations and uploading payment instructions in normalized formats to their entire…

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February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Merger of Deutsche Börse Group and LSEG not happening again?

London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LSEG) said its $13 billion tie-up with Deutsche Boerse AG is unlikely to proceed after a new regulatory hurdle signaled a potential end to the companies’ efforts to create a champion European exchange, according to Bloomberg. European Union officials had requested that LSE divest MTS, an electronic trading platform for…

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