CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) just said the company completed its acquisition of Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS) on Tuesday, February 28, in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion (based on the closing price of CBOE Holdings shares on February 28). The combined company also announced its new corporate leadership…
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In the beginning of January this year, Dash Financial and Convergex signed a definitive agreement to merge Dash and LiquidPoint (Convergex’s Options Trading and Technology business) to create a financial technology company in the options and equities markets. Today, almost two months later, Dash announced that it has completed its merger with LiquidPoint to create…
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Wall Street Horizon just announced that IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO)’s new Hub Horizon corporate event data service, which is powered by Wall Street Horizon’s event data, has officially launched. Markit Hub Horizon provides accurate and reliable forward-looking corporate event dates and information on over 5,000 North American and 7,000 international companies. More than 20 event…
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Forex ECN FastMatch is reporting that volumes in its system decreased slightly during February, by 2% MoM, to average $16.6 billion ADV for the month. Still, February 2017 clocks in as one of the best months ever at FastMatch, behind only January and last November's US election driven record result of $17.1 billion ADV. We'd also…
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As its new owner CBOE Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) unveiled the new company logo (above), institutional Forex ECN Hotspot FX reported that February trading volumes cooled somewhat from the company's hot start to 2017. February volumes at Hotspot FX averaged $27.0 billion daily, down 8.8% MoM from January's $29.6 billion ADV. Hotspot's February figures begin a parade…
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GTX, the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), has reported that February trading volumes in its system decreased from record January levels. 2017 started off extremely strong at GTX, with record ECN / SEF volumes of $12.1 billion ADV in January. However trading activity cooled off somewhat during February,…
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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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SETL, the London based financial blockchain specialist, announced the opening of their Paris office to develop its eurozone activities. The new office will be led by Pierre Davoust, formerly Deputy Head of the Financial Markets Unit at the French Treasury, who is appointed CEO France at SETL. SETL was launched in July 2015 to deploy…
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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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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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