FX technology company Integral has just released its volumes report for the month of November. The average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms totaled $38.3 billion last month. This shows an increase of 10.7% MoM and a rise of 9.4% compared to the same period last year. This recent data shows that Integral’s partners are…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc. (Nasdaq: CME) has just announced its November volumes, releasing a record Energy futures and options monthly average daily volume of 3.1 million contracts, as well as Record Energy options monthly average daily volume of 492,000 contracts. FX volumes remained steady MoM in November with 904,000 contracts per day. The complete report…
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The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has informed the public that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA). According to WFE and the Association, the two main goals of the memorandum will be: to support the development of market infrastructures in Africa, and a wider African capital market ecosystem…
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As climate change projections grow increasingly dire, governments are calling on the private sector to address and prepare for its effects. Nori, the blockchain-based marketplace for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, is making it easy for companies to pay to reducing their carbon footprint, while incentivizing farmers to switch to more eco-friendly agricultural practices.…
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Private financial cloud provider for the global capital markets industry, Options, has opened a brand new office in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The new headquarters, based in Linen Loft, Adelaide Street, will consist of 100 new financial technology jobs. Options has already opened one Belfast office back in 2014. Options’ Chief Operating Officer, Danny Moore, former…
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ForexClear members have announced that, through the use of the service’s compression solution, they have reduced their notional outstanding by $4.5 billion, global clearing house LCH informed earlier today. ForexClear has seen demand for its NDF clearing service significantly increase since the introduction of the uncleared margin rules in September 2016. LeapRate reminds, that ForexClear service processed over $1…
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Via Varejo, a company controlled by the GPA, operating the Casas Bahia, Pontofrio and Bartira brands, has announced that it has concluded the migration of its shares to the B3 Novo Mercado. Companies listed in this segment, which represents the highest level of corporate governance, can only have their capital stock composed of voting shares,…
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Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), has just informed the public that it is enhancing the WM/Reuters Thai Baht Spot FX Benchmarks with data sourced from Matching, Refinitiv’s anonymous central limit order book. This has allowed the Thai Baht (THB) and Thai Baht Offshore (TOF) benchmarks to become ‘trade’ currencies using the…
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Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), has announced that it is expanding its partnership with the National University of Singapore to launch a new service which see’s the NUS Risk Management Institute – Credit Research Initiative (CRI) provide specialist credit risk and default data through Refinitiv’s flagship data and information platforms, Eikon…
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Information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has just announced that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) issued a final order today approving a plan of arrangement to implement the company’s proposed return of capital transaction. Yesterday, Thomson Reuters received shareholder approval for the return of capital transaction at a special meeting held in Toronto.…
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