Leading non-bank forex liquidity provider XTX Markets announced today it is now operating a ‘zero hold time’ (ZHT) model in its application of last look to its FX counterparty businesses. This is in response to market structure changes and is in accordance with the principles of the recently published Global FX Code. Until the new…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that global investment services provider AFX Group has hired seasoned FX industry executive Lisa Murphy to be the COO of its soon-to-be-launched FX Prime brokerage unit, Quantic Prime. Lisa Murphy spent the past year as an operations consultant to a variety of Retail FX industry firms. She began her FX…
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FCA regulated FX Prime of Prime brokerage CFH Clearing has announced senior changes at its board and top management levels, as the company seeks to accelerate its ambitious growth strategy under new owner Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC). Playtech acquired the CFH Group for $120 million late last year. Lars Holst (pictured above), CEO of CFH Clearing…
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LeapRate Exclusive Interview... Virtually (no pun intended) every day we have been seeing some forex broker or another announce something to the effect of "Now you can trade Bitcoin / Ethereum / Dash / Ripple with us". Not exactly news any more, but it certainly highlights the increasing interest both retail brokers and traders have…
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LMAX Exchange, the FCA regulated MTF for FX, has announced the appointment of Matt DellaRocca to the newly created position of Liquidity Manager for the Americas. Matt will be responsible for the real-time management, monitoring and analysis of all LMAX Exchange liquidity in the US. Matt DellaRocca joins LMAX Exchange from Bloomberg Tradebook, where he…
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NEX Markets, a NEX Group business which provides electronic trading technology services in the fixed income and foreign exchange (FX) markets, announces today that Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, a mainstream bank as well as an integrated and regional financial group with roots firmly planted in Hong Kong for 100 years, will be joining…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Hong Kong based forex brokerage solutions provider Broctagon Solutions has established a subsidiary in Cyprus, ahead of the planned launch of a regulated Prime Brokerage and Liquidity Solutions business. The company has established a sub called Broctagon Prime Ltd, and has already received its CySEC CIF license. The license became…
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Invast Global, the ASIC-regulated Australian-based arm of leading Japanese brokerage Invast Securities Co. Ltd. (TYO:8709), has announced that it has deepened the liquidity offering of its multi-asset prime services facility PurePrime by adding FX pricing from Lucid Markets. Lucid Markets is a unit of Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR), formerly FXCM Inc. Lucid established itself in 2009…
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