Eventus Systems expands global market coverage with 10 new venues LeapRate

April 06, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Eventus Systems expands global market coverage with 10 new venues

Eventus’ platform, Validus, in equities, equity options, futures, foreign exchange (FX), fixed income and digital asset markets. Validus addresses the different requirements of each asset class and the differing rules and regulations across multiple jurisdictions. Its users include banks, brokerages, futures commission merchants (FCMs), proprietary trading firms, exchanges, corporates and buy-side firms. During the first…

April 06, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Johnson hospitalised and US futures inch higher as investors eye pandemic peak

Rough week for small-cap UK stocks Small and mid-sized London-listed stocks faced a far tougher week than their large cap counterparts last week, with the FTSE 250 index sinking 4.5% to the FTSE 100’s 1.2% drop. After UK banks were forced to scrap billions in dividend payments, we’ve seen a corresponding impact on company plans…

April 06, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Weekly data preview: RBA’s meeting and Canadian data in view

The current situation of elevated volatility is reflected very prominently on the chart here. Buying volume increased sharply in the second half of last week and price has now moved into overbought based on both the slow stochastic and Bollinger Bands. There are likely to be short-term opportunities in both directions this week, but buyers…

April 06, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: Stocks in Europe are trading significantly higher

OIL Even the best Hollywood movie director would have struggled to imagine the last few days for oil. The dramatic scenario seen last week, with WTI falling below $20 has been followed by a spectacular rebound of 50% in just two trading sessions. This happened when markets realized that the lower price, in conjunction with coronavirus, was…

April 03, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Saxo Bank's Q2 Outlook paints a gloomy picture of global markets

Saxo Bank warns that equities face the worse outlook since 2008. The current coronavirus crisis comes just after the US-China trade war put things out of balance and slowed growth. Supply and demand shock come together with oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia. The bank expects in the worst-case scenario, that the S&P…

April 03, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Markets dragged higher by energy names despite shocking unemployment figures

UK Banks in the spotlight for dragging heels on small business help It was a mixed but relatively flat day for London-listed stocks, with banks again back in the spotlight over concerns that they have been sluggish in issuing emergency business loans to customers under a government scheme launched last week. Late on Thursday, post-market…

April 03, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: Stocks continue to tumble, IG Group launches institutional offering, UK banks cut payments to shareholders

Saxo Bank Group announced lower profit of DKK 40 million net profit this year, but record number of new clients in its 2019 report. Retail FX brokerage group Admiral Markets announced that it has expanded its Premium Analytics portal to include featured trading ideas from Trading Central. Traders can now use Admiral Markets’ Premium Analytics portal to…

April 02, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Argentex revenue up 30% in 2H 2019 report

Harry Adams and Carl Jani, Co-CEOs commented: While it is too early to ascertain the full ramifications of COVID-19 on markets and corporates alike, the Group’s high quality, credit worthy client base, risk framework and disciplined liquidity management positions the Group well in pursuit of its long-term growth objectives. Our continued strong performance underlines the…

April 02, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

RoboMarkets enhances trading conditions for ECN-Pro and Prime Accounts

The premium accounts condition on Prime have also improved. The minimum deposit amount is now only 100 USD instead of 5,000 USD as it used to be. And the leverage value for professional clients was boosted up to 1:300. Anton Ivanov, a marketing manager at RoboMarkets commented: We’re holding to our course on the improvement…

April 02, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Former CME Group director, Yutaka Imanishi, named Head of Japan, LCH

Imanishi was previously executive director in Optimisation Japan at CME Group. He also had a position as CEO Asia Pacific, TriOptima where he oversaw TriOptima’s compression and portfolio reconciliation business in APAC. Imanishi has also held a number of positions at Nomura and other banking groups across Australia, Japan and Singapore. Kate Birchall, Head of…

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