Burton-Taylor appoints TABB Group’s Director for its Exchange Vertical LeapRate

March 23, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Burton-Taylor appoints TABB Group's Director for its Exchange Vertical

Burton-Taylor International Consulting, a division of TP ICAP’s data & analytics group and a provider of market research, analytics and business consulting, has appointed Andy Nybo as Director of its Exchange Vertical research practice. In heading up the exchange and transaction venue research division, Andy Nybo will be building out Burton-Taylor’s comprehensive analysis of current…

White River Bancshares Company begins trading on OTCQX

March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

OTC Markets welcomes Neo Lithium to OTCQX

OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of financial markets for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, today announced Neo Lithium Corp. (TSX-V: NLC; OTCQX: NTTHF), a junior natural resource company focused on lithium brine exploration, has qualified to trade on the OTCQX® Best Market. Neo Lithium upgraded to OTCQX from the Pink® market. Neo Lithium…

Bank of China (UK) Limited joins LCH’s SwapClear

March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

First buy-side client live with credit default swaps clearing at LCH

LCH, a global clearing house, announced today that its first European buy-side client is now live on CDSClear. Amundi is now clearing credit default swaps (CDS) at CDSClear via its clearing broker BNP Paribas. The expansion into client clearing is the latest development for CDSClear, which has seen activity on its service grow significantly in…

March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats Europe launches two new indices designed to measure impact of Brexit on UK companies

Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, today announced it has launched the Bats Brexit 50/50 Indices, two new benchmark indices designed to reflect the impact of Brexit on UK companies. The two indices – the Bats Brexit High 50 and Bats Brexit Low 50 – are designed to act as barometers for…

March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AxiTrader hires Filippo De Rosa to head its Middle East operations

Australian-owned Forex (FX) and Contracts For Difference (CFD) trading provider AxiCorp continues its global expansion and has appointed Filippo De Rosa to head its Middle East operations. De Rosa brings more than 12 years of experience in retail and institutional sales in the global CFD and FX markets to his new role, which will see…

March 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Alpari adds news and analysis service FxWirePro to its website

Retail Forex broker Alpari Limited today announced that has added a new section on its website that provides news about financial markets from FxWirePro. Clients can now get all their news in one place by logging into Alpari's site. This new feature offers news in English and Chinese from FxWirePro, a service that is highly recommended…

March 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters completes Clarient and Avox acquisitions

Information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) has completed its acquisitions of Clarient Global LLC and Avox Limited, expanding its risk-management footprint and its ability to provide a best-in-class standard of customer solutions by integrating both businesses into its portfolio of risk management, compliance and data offerings. The Clarient and Avox acquisitions represent the next step…

March 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Alpha Q1 results: Revenues £5.7 million, Profit £1.2 million, Client Cash £45 million

Following on our exclusive coverage of the 2016 results (12 months to September 30, 2016) of institutional FX brokerage ACM Group plc, more commonly known in the industry as just Alpha, we have been provided the company's results for the first quarter of fiscal 2017 indicating that Alpha's 2016 restructuring and strategy of focusing on…

March 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MARF registers a new bond tranche by MasMovil Broadband

The Mercado Alternativo de Renta Fija (MARF) today registered a new bond tranche issued by Masmovil Broadband with a 5.75% annual coupon and maturity in 2024. The amount of this new issue, which adds to the €30 million placed in July 2016, is €38 million and was placed at a 5.1% yield. Intermoney Valores has…

Mark Carney tagged as frontrunner for IMF post, but will he favor cryptos?

March 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Mark Carney sets out FSB’s priorities for the G20 German Presidency

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published a letter from Mark Carney, Chair of the FSB, sent to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors ahead of their meeting in Baden-Baden from 17-18 March. In his letter, the FSB Chair highlights the good progress made in implementing the post-crisis reforms, as a result of which…

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