“Smart cities” have seen accelerated development globally. Residents use autonomous vehicles for transportation, energy is used efficiently with devices tracking real time the consumption of electricity and gas. Toyota announced its plans in January for building a sustainable prototype in early 2021. The Woven City will be built in a 175-acre site at the foot…
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CLS’s Head of Information Services, Masami Johnstone, commented: “We saw average daily traded volumes in February 2020 of USD1.81 trillion, representing growth of 5% compared to February 2019. Over the same comparison period FX swap volumes were flat, the spot market was up sharply at 24%, while there was a decrease in forward volumes of…
Read moreINTL FCStone Inc announced today that its London-based subsidiary, INTL FCStone Ltd’s Foreign Exchange desk has joined Bloomberg’s electronic trading platform, FXGO, as a liquidity provider. The affiliation allows INTL FCStone Ltd to offer market participants added efficiencies for FX trading. Bloomberg’s FXGO enables service providers to contribute executable pricing across a wide arsenal of…
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Trading Technologies, Inc, global provider of professional trading software, announced its collaboration with Nodal Exchange to offer Nodal’s contracts through its TT platform. Clients of TT will be able to leverage its full suite of tools including charting and analytics functionality, design, automated trading, mobile trading, FIX services and API development, to trade the entire…
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Copper.co, London-based institutional custody and brokerage firm, announced its partnership with SFOX, US prime cryptocurrency dealer. Copper’s institutional clients will benefit from SFOX’s integration and use secure access to its best price execution platform and global liquidity. SFOX’s clients will be able to take advantage of the secure custody and settlement architecture developed by Copper’s…
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Citi has shared its intention to reduce its global ambitions in the foreign exchange space since launching a review back in October of last year. To do so Citi will drop almost two-thirds of the trading platforms it gives currency quotes. The bank has made changes to its vendor platform requirements and cut 12 of…
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CLS, US settlement services provider in the foreign exchange market, announced yesterday the first Japanese manufacturing company to access CLSSettlement as a third-party participant, Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI). SEI is manufacturer of electric wire and optical fiber cables and is ranked in the Fortune Global 500. The company has a diverse global business portfolio in…
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Global Fintech provider and part of the S&P 500 Index, Broadridge Financial Solutions, announced earlier this week the acquisition of FundsLibrary, fund document and data dissemination platform. Broadridge’s pan-European regulatory communications and digital data platform will benefit from the acquisition with lifecycle of fund data, documents, and regulatory reporting for the investment industry support. FundsLibrary’s…
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Fintech provider TechFinancials, Inc., announced that following 15 July 2019 funding agreement with for subsidiary Footies Ltd, the company has converted its $300,000 loan into 4,285 new shares of £0.01 in Footies Ltd. The transaction was at approximately $70.00 per share and amounted to valuation of US $1,000,000 post-money for Footies. After the transaction TechFinancials…
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FXCM Group, LLC, the international provider of online forex and CFD trading, has just announced that FXCM Pro is about to start onboarding clients with FlexTrade System’s MaxxTrader solution across the LD4 hosting centre. LeapRate reminds that FXCM Pro started its partnership with FlexTrade last year. MaxxTrader is an end-to-end, dedicated and customisable solution covering…
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