Singapore-based brokerage Straits Financial Group has announced yesterday that it has teamed up with Integral to deploy new eFX workflow automation and trading technology to drive business growth. Straits Financial offers a full spectrum of derivatives and OTC products to its global client base. Committed to providing a bespoke service, the group needed an eFX…
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Financial technology provider, Spotware has just announced that it has teamed up with the FCA regulated Prime of Prime and Liquidity Provider IS Prime. This partnership will allow any broker or bank offering Spotware's cTrader to connect directly to IS Prime’s multi-asset, aggregated liquidity pool from an extensive list of Tier-1 financial institutions. IS Prime’s clients…
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FlexTrade Systems and Woodline Partners, a San Francisco-based investment firm, have announced the integration of MSCI’s Barra real time portfolio risk and factor analysis solutions into the FlexONE OEMS. MSCI Inc.’s (NYSE:MSCI) factor models help investment managers understand portfolio and market risk. They are also enabling them to build portfolios based on objectives and risk…
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The following post was provided by online FX and CFD broker ATFX. Global e-commerce platform and public cloud provider Amazon will share its Q3 earnings results on October 24, 2019. Amazon is the third-largest digital ad platform behind Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOGL). The company continues to launch new products and services and is targeting…
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CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has just published its operating metrics for the month of September 2019. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.84 trillion, up 5.3 percent from USD1.75 trillion in August 2019. Average daily traded volume submitted to CLS by…
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has yesterday shared with the pubic that new initiatives were underway to strengthen capital market activities between Singapore and China. The initiatives were discussed at the 15th Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation between Singapore and China and aim to facilitate the growing interest of financial institutions based in Singapore…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group has today announced that it achieved its highest quarterly Asia Pacific average daily volume (ADV) on record, with 1.2 million contracts traded during third-quarter of 2019. That's a 61% rise YoY and surpassing the previous quarterly record of 1.1 million contracts traded in second-quarter 2019. Latin America quarterly ADV was 152,000…
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Multi-asset brokerage based in Sydney and Hong Kong, Invast Global, has just announced its partnership with Cboe Global Markets. Invast Global is a provider of Prime Brokerage Services globally, allowing brokers, asset managers and hedge funds access to execution, clearing and custody services across a range of global markets in Equities, ETFs, Futures, Foreign Exchange…
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Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIRT) has announced that its subsidiaries have just closed their incremental $525 million senior secured first lien term loan. Virtu is a provider of financial services and products that leverages technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and provide execution services and data, analytics and connectivity products. The Term Loan bears…
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Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has released its volumes report for the month of September. Total volume was $784,236 and average daily volume was $37,345 last month. ADV dropped with 13% MoM, but was up 17.1% YoY, considering the 21 trading days last month. LeapRate reminds that FXSpotStream's August ADV reached a new record of…
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