Category: Institutional

acquisition
September 20, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

TP ICAP acquires ClearCompress for £750,000

TP ICAP plc has announced earlier this week that it has acquired ClearCompress Limited, a provider of innovative, algorithm-based, light-touch compression services in cleared and uncleared derivatives that assist clients to achieve cost efficiencies and capital reduction. TP ICAP and ClearCompress started collaborating in 2017. In March 2019 when TP ICAP agreed to provide funding…

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Virtu Financial
September 19, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Virtu Financial to launch new FX and FI TCA models

Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIRT) has just announced that it will launch new transaction cost and market impact models for FX and fixed income, as part of ongoing enhancements to its comprehensive multi-asset class TCA offering. Kevin O’Connor, Virtu’s Head of Analytics and Workflow, commented: Our ACE Analytics product has been the leading cost and…

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Marex Spectron launches Marex Financial Products structured note business
September 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Marex Spectron launches Marex Financial Products structured note business

Marex Spectron, the global commodities firm, has announced that it has launched Marex Financial Products. Marex Financial Products is a structured note business that broadens its range of product offerings and helps diversify the firm’s funding and is part of Marex Solutions, the firm’s OTC derivatives arm. Marex Financial Products leverages Solutions’ fintech platform which…

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FXTM analyzed 70 M&A deals to show stock performance and GDP comps
September 16, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXTM analyzed 70 M&A deals to show stock performance and GDP comps

The world of Mergers and Acquisitions can be fascinating, when it grabs financial headlines to broadcast the latest corporate “marriage” or at least the potential of one, barring any mishap with regulators and government officials that worry about anti-trust implications. Many of these mega-deals, just like many other relationships, can also end in “divorce”, hopefully,…

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September 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Advanced Markets Group teams up with retail FX trading tools provider Autochartist

Advanced Markets Group just announced that they have teamed up with the Autochartist group of companies. The partnership aims to increase customer acquisition, trading activity and retention for customers of Advanced Markets. This will happen through a number of broker-centric products provided by Autochartist and its group of companies. Autochartist has recently expanded its offering…

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CLS Group trading volumes
September 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group reports steady volumes in August

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 August 2019. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.75 trillion – no change from USD1.75 trillion in July 2019. Average daily traded volume submitted  to CLS by product…

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New chapter in India crypto ban debate – Massive brain drain anticipated
September 05, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Match-Trade Technologies expands with a new office in India

Following the announcement of a special Partnership Program last month, Match-Trade Technologies has now teamed up with the LSSR Group and will open an Official Representative office in India. This is another regional agency after the USA, Poland and Malaysia offices, this time located in Bangalore, India. India is one of the fastest-growing forex broker…

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LCH
September 02, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

LCH SA adds Mizuho as a clearing member

Global clearing house LCH announced that they have just added Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd to their members list. Mizuho is the first Japanese financial institution to access LCH SA’s Euro debt clearing services as a member of RepoClear. The financial institution will now have access to the largest netting pool of Euro-denominated debt and will…

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August 27, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

MultiBank Group launches MultiBank LATAM in Mexico

As part of its mission to expand further into the Latin American market, financial derivatives company MultiBank Group celebrated the opening of its new regional headquarter, MultiBank LATAM, in Monterrey, Mexico. The regional office will be headed by the industry professionals Jorge Alberto González Villarreal and Javier Ernesto González Jiménez. During the opening ceremony of…

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