Information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has just finalized its planned uses of proceeds from the recently completed sale of a 55% interest in its Financial & Risk (F&R) business. The company also announced that its Board of Directors approved an US$0.02 annualized dividend increase to US$1.40 per share. As previously disclosed, the company is…
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Gil Mandelzis is coming home, doing a deal with his old employer NEX / Traiana. NEX Optimisation (formerly Traiana), which helps clients reduce complexity and optimise resources across the transaction lifecycle, and Mandelzis' Capitolis, a pioneering technology provider for the capital markets, have just announced they will collaborate in a partnership to provide immediate access…
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Validus platform now integrated with CQG Eventus Systems, Inc., a provider of innovative regtech software solutions for the capital markets, has just announced that FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has gone live as a client. GAIN has deployed Eventus’ cloud-based version of the Validus platform to manage the market surveillance program for its…
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Global financial technology and social trading group ayondo Ltd and Huanying International Limited (“Huanying”) have informed that they are establishing a collaboration through a white label agreement to grow trading opportunities for Huanying’s clients in Asia, and in particular, China (the “Collaboration”). It is envisaged that under the Collaboration, ayondo and Huanying will partner to…
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Advanced Markets Ltd, Australian Financial Services Licensee providing Institutional Liquidity as well as Prime of Prime services, has just announced that it has officially signed a statement of commitment to the FX Global Code of Conduct (the Global Code). Other companies recently signed up to the Code of Conduct include UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc…
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Information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has announced early tender results for its previously announced cash tender offer (the "Tender Offer") to purchase up to an aggregate principal amount of US$650 million (the “Maximum Amount”) of debt securities listed in the table below (collectively, the "Notes"). As more than the Maximum Amount of Notes was…
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Saint Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX) and S&P Global Platts, a division of S&P Global, have announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the Russian Energy Week 2018, held in Moscow. Under its terms, the parties agree to work on the development of pricing mechanisms for exported Russian crude oil including…
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Mercer, a global consulting company, specializing in advancing health, wealth and career, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies (NYSE: MMC), and Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), the provider of independent investment research, have just announced an alliance to provide investors and advisors with a single global digital platform for institutional investment manager…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group has just released its trading volumes for the month of September and has reached average daily volume (ADV) of 17.5 million contracts per day during September 2018, up 3 percent from September 2017. Open interest at the end of September was 120 million contracts, up 6 percent from September 2017 and…
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Genesis Proprietary Trading, an Australian proprietary trading company, and Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, have just announced Genesis has contracted with Trading Technologies to use the TT futures trading platform. With this agreement, Genesis’ proprietary traders have access to TT’s fully integrated suite of cutting-edge functionality for…
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