Category: Institutional

LeapRate interview: Defense against toxic flow, Jeff Wilkins speaks
August 24, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany releases baseline report

The Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany has issued its baseline report presenting an inventory of sustainability activities at the financial centre of Frankfurt/Main. The report is the first publication from this cluster, created in spring 2018 in a merger between the Green Finance Cluster Frankfurt of the Hessian Ministry of Economics and the Accelerating…

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Hong Kong SFC
August 24, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SFC launches investor identification for northbound trading

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has announced that it has reached an agreement with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to implement an investor identification regime for northbound trading under Mainland-Hong Kong Stock Connect on 17 September 2018. The investor identification regime will facilitate more effective monitoring and surveillance by the CSRC…

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August 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Vela teams up with CoinMarketCap to include cryptocurrencies in SuperFeed

Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has announced a partnership with CoinMarketCap, the source of data for cryptocurrencies. This agreement marks a new addition to the asset class coverage for Vela’s Market Data Feed service, SuperFeed. The partnership will provide Vela’s institutional client base with normalized…

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FlexTrade teams up with ACA Technology to provide data on-demand for trade surveillance
August 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Energy producer Statkraft to integrate Nasdaq’s SMARTS Trade Surveillance

Statkraft, a producer of renewable energy, has just announced that it has selected Nasdaq’s (NASDAQ:NDAQ) SMARTS Trade Surveillance to monitor trading behavior across power markets in the EU and Norway, in line with the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR). Statkraft’s decision adds to a growing community of energy corporations and utilities across the Americas, Europe and…

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PepsiCo acquires SodaStream International Ltd. for $3.2 billion
August 21, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

PepsiCo acquires SodaStream International Ltd. for $3.2 billion

PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP) and SodaStream International Ltd. (NASDAQ:SODA) have announced that they have entered into an agreement under which PepsiCo has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of SodaStream for $144.00 per share in cash, which represents a 32% premium to the 30-day volume weighted average price. PepsiCo and SodaStream are an inspired match," said…

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Citi invests in low latency connectivity provider TransFICC
August 20, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Citi invests in low latency connectivity provider TransFICC

TransFICC, the specialist provider of low-latency connectivity for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, has just informed the public that it has secured a strategic investment from Citi. Citi joins existing shareholders, Illuminate Financial, Main Incubator (part of Commerzbank) and The FinLab. TransFICC resolves the issue of market fragmentation by providing banks and asset managers with…

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Tradeweb brings RFQ trading to the options industry
August 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Tradeweb brings RFQ trading to the options industry

Trading platform Tradeweb has announced the launch of the Tradeweb U.S. options platform for institutional customer-to-dealer trading. Designed to improve efficiency and access to liquidity in the surging U.S. options market, the Tradeweb U.S. equity options platform allows institutional investors to directly source full-size price quotes from multiple market makers using the request for quote…

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August 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Will investment into SMEs remain after Brexit?

After Dr Pippa Malmgren, advisor to the Department of International Trade and former White House official under President George W Bush, spoke of Foreign Direct Investment into the UK rising despite scaremongering from Project Fear, Luke Davis, CEO, and Founder of Mayfair-based investment house IW Capital has responded with what this will mean for SMEs…

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