SquaredFinancial appoints Chrysovalantis Karageorgiou as Head of Middle Office LeapRate

SquaredFinancial promotes Ali Rupani as Chief Sales Officer

June 25, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SquaredFinancial appoints Chrysovalantis Karageorgiou as Head of Middle Office

Chrysovalantis Karageorgiou commented: SquaredFinancial’s vision of becoming a global leader in financial services fintech, is one I can stand behind. As such, I’m excited to have joined a team of industry experts who are committed to continual improve and enhance the investment and trading services provided to clients. Prior to joining SquaredFinancial, Karageorgiou served as…

June 25, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exclusive: ActivTrades expects record revenues in H1 2020: A talk with CEO Alex Pusco

LR: How did these new products perform given the plummet in oil prices seen earlier in the year, with WTI even seeing negative prices? These products were quickly developed in response to previously unforeseen prices on oil contracts nearing expiry. We wanted to offer our clients an alternative solution to traditional products that would enable them…

June 25, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

New members appointed to the supervisory board of Eurex Clearing

In the past two years the program has given seats to Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan, LBBW and UniCredit. Head of Fixed Income & Currencies at UniCredit Group Tong Lee will be a member of the board in future. For Deutsche Bank, David Feldmann, Head of Capital Markets Germany, Austria & Switzerland, will take over…

June 25, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Markets retreat as second wave fears abound

What to watch Nike: Attracting a lot of attention ahead of its Q4 results today is Nike as analysts flock to offer upbeat assessments of the share price. While the company’s stock tumbled with many others during the initial coronavirus outbreak, it has largely recovered all its losses in the subsequent rally and now hovers…

June 25, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

INTL FCStone rebrands and expands its relationships with Eventus in the EMEA region

Alexander Culley, Chief Compliance Officer, EMEAA (Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia) for INTL FCStone Ltd., said: Our colleagues in the U.S. have been extremely pleased with the ability to customize alerts as well as the performance and flexibility of the Validus platform – not only as it relates to U.S. trading venues but…

Frankfurt Stock Exchange announces that Paul Hilgers was appointed as a member of the Management Board

June 24, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

London Stock Exchange announces changes to its board

Michael Findlay said: I am delighted to be joining London Stock Exchange plc’s Board as the Non-Executive Chair. I look forward to working with the Board and the executive team to continue to develop the business for the future. LSEG also noted the appointments of Nikhil Rathi as CEO of the FCA and Denzil Jenkins…

Virtue Financial appoints Akiko Imai as Global Head of New Sales

June 24, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Virtu Financial appoints Akiko Imai as Global Head of New Sales

Imai will also oversee global sales efforts for POSIT Alert and report directly to Brad Johmann, Global Head of Posit Alert and Stephen Cavoli. Imai started her career in Hong Kong in 2013 at ITG as the first hire for POSIT Alert Asia-Pacific Sales & Coverage desk and later becoming head of the department. She…

Italian Banking Association getting closer to launching digital euro

June 24, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

The Italian Banking Association is getting closer to launching digital euro

The Executive Committee of the ABI has agreed on ten fundamental criteria to issue the digital euro. The Association stated in the published guidelines that it been studying in depth digital coins and crypto assets since last year. The ABI indicated that Italian banks have already been operating on a Distributed ledger technology (DLT) infrastructure…

June 24, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Gold surges to multi-year high as stocks head back to peaks

What to watch Winnebago Industries: One of the more intriguing companies reporting earnings this week is Winnebago, which will issue its latest quarterly results on Wednesday. The company’s stock, having initially taken a huge hit in the broader market sell-off due to production line shutdowns, is up 33.8% year-to-date, after a huge 194% rally over…

June 24, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Dukascopy reduces leverage on Hong Kong CFDs

Dukascopy Bank announced earlier this month the expansion of its arsenal of funding methods available to clients with the addition of Ether (ETH). The addition is the second 2nd crypto-currency after the bank launched Bitcoin (BTC) in October 2018. The cryptocurrencies can be used to deposit and withdraw funds from a trading account opened as…

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SquaredFinancial appoints Chrysovalantis Karageorgiou as Head of Middle Office

Exclusive: ActivTrades expects record revenues in H1 2020: A talk with CEO Alex Pusco

New members appointed to the supervisory board of Eurex Clearing

Daily Market News: Markets retreat as second wave fears abound

INTL FCStone rebrands and expands its relationships with Eventus in the EMEA region

London Stock Exchange announces changes to its board

Virtu Financial appoints Akiko Imai as Global Head of New Sales

The Italian Banking Association is getting closer to launching digital euro

Daily Market News: Gold surges to multi-year high as stocks head back to peaks

Dukascopy reduces leverage on Hong Kong CFDs

ATFX Opens New Office in South Africa

Fiserv to Buy AIB Merchant Services

HSBC Chairman to Step Down on September 30

Clearstream and Azimut Partner to Develop a Digital Solution for Private Market Funds

Wise Sees 23% Increase in Cross-Border Volume