Category: Forex

MAS Monetary Authority of Singapore
October 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

MAS: New initiatives to facilitate capital market activities between Singapore and China

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has yesterday shared with the pubic that new initiatives were underway to strengthen capital market activities between Singapore and China. The initiatives were discussed at the 15th Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation between Singapore and China and aim to facilitate the growing interest of financial institutions based in Singapore…

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cme building
October 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group offers real-time futures and options market data on Google Cloud Platform

Derivatives marketplace CME Group has announced that it will become the first derivatives marketplace to offer real-time futures and options market data on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The initiative starts November 17, 2019. Market participants will now be allowed to access CME Group's market data, including all CME Globex market data and third-party data sources,…

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FlexTrade adds Paul Beatty to team
October 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ECC names Jens Rick its new Chief Information Officer

The Supervisory Board of European Commodity Clearing AG (ECC) has announced today that it has appointed Jens Rick to the Management Board of the clearing house. Jens Rick will assume the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) of ECC effective from 1 November and will be responsible for the operation and development of ECC’s clearing…

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moex volumes report
October 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Interactive Brokers clients can now trade on Moscow Exchange

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has today announced that it has teamed up with global electronic broker Interactive Brokers Group (Nasdaq: IBKR). The broker has begun providing access to the Russian market for all its clients in the US and worldwide. Interactive Brokers' clients can now fund their account in 24 currencies and trade assets from a…

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CFH Clearing
October 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFH Clearing adds sentiment data and newsfeed from Acuity

CFH Clearing, TradeTech Group’s Liquidity Provider and Prime of Prime brokerage, has just announced that it has added news sentiment data tools and an enhanced multi-asset newsfeed to its platforms. Both newsfeed and data will be delivered through news technology company, Acuity. CFH clients can now access Acuity through its proprietary platforms, ClearPro and ClearWeb…

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CME Group record
October 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group reaches record APAC ADV of 1.2m contracts in Q3

Derivatives marketplace CME Group has today announced that it achieved its highest quarterly Asia Pacific average daily volume (ADV) on record, with 1.2 million contracts traded during third-quarter of 2019. That's a 61% rise YoY and surpassing the previous quarterly record of 1.1 million contracts traded in second-quarter 2019. Latin America quarterly ADV was 152,000…

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AvaTrade adds MetaTrader 5 to its range of global platforms
October 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

AAATrade launches securities services offering access via MetaTrader 5

The European investment firm and liquidity provider AAATrade has announced earlier today that it has just launched its new securities services offering access to over 80 exchanges and to more than 60,000 assets. All the assets are tradable through AAATrade’s collaboration with UBS Bank in Switzerland, which acts as AAATrade’s custodian and execution bank. For…

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Invast Global announces partnership with Cboe Global Markets
October 10, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Invast Global announces partnership with Cboe Global Markets

Multi-asset brokerage based in Sydney and Hong Kong, Invast Global, has just announced its partnership with Cboe Global Markets. Invast Global is a provider of Prime Brokerage Services globally, allowing brokers, asset managers and hedge funds access to execution, clearing and custody services across a range of global markets in Equities, ETFs, Futures, Foreign Exchange…

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Virtu Financial
October 10, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Virtu completes incremental $525 million term loan

Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIRT) has announced that its subsidiaries have just closed their incremental $525 million senior secured first lien term loan. Virtu is a provider of financial services and products that leverages technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and provide execution services and data, analytics and connectivity products. The Term Loan bears…

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