Category: Forex

Cobalt goes live with Deutsche Bank, XTX Markets and Saxo Bank on its FX post-trade infrastructure

September 23, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cobalt goes live with Deutsche Bank, XTX Markets and Saxo Bank on its FX post-trade infrastructure

FX post-trade infrastructure and solutions provider Cobalt has announced that it has gone live with Deutsche Bank, XTX Markets and Saxo Bank as its first clients. Cobalt has developed a platform that matches all FX trades into a single trusted record, dramatically increasing efficiency and offering clients savings of up to 50% on their current…

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Mexico added to Tradays fundamental market analysis app

September 20, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Mexico added to Tradays fundamental market analysis app

MetaQuotes Software has launched a free calendar of macroeconomic events for the fundamental market analysis last year. Since then, Tradays calendar has expanded geographically, adding Germany, France, Spain, Italy to the app. The most recent countries included in the app are Brazil, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea. MetaQuotes Software Corp. announced earlier this week that…

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Forex Sports Sponsorship: Global Kapital Group becomes Arsenal's official Forex partner

September 20, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Forex Sports Sponsorship: Global Kapital Group & Arsenal partnership officially kicks off at Emirates Stadium

Global Kapital Group has just announced that it has teamed up with Premier League legend Arsenal and will become their official global Forex partner. Tunc Akyurt, Group CEO of Global Kapital Group commented on the news: We are extremely proud to have a strong partnership with one of the Premier League’s best football clubs and…

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Deutsche Börse

September 20, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Börse's Michael Zollweg leaves Trading Surveillance Office

Michael Zollweg, Head of the Trading Surveillance Office (TSO) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Eurex Germany, announced earlier this week that he will leave this public position at the end of 2019 at his own request. Zollweg has been Head of the TSO for 20 years and leaves Deutsche Börse AG on the best…

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acquisition

September 20, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

TP ICAP acquires ClearCompress for £750,000

TP ICAP plc has announced earlier this week that it has acquired ClearCompress Limited, a provider of innovative, algorithm-based, light-touch compression services in cleared and uncleared derivatives that assist clients to achieve cost efficiencies and capital reduction. TP ICAP and ClearCompress started collaborating in 2017. In March 2019 when TP ICAP agreed to provide funding…

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Fair Trading Technology adds XOH Trader from X Open Hub to their list of integrated platforms

September 20, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Fair Trading Technology adds XOH Trader from X Open Hub to their list of integrated platforms

LeapRate Exclusive... Fair Trading Technology, a provider of brokerage management solutions for the MetaTrader platform, has just announced that it will expand their service to other platforms as well. First in line is XOH Trader, a trading platform provided by X Open Hub. Commenting on the news, Jonas Eldborn, CEO of Fair Trading Technology, states:…

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Virtu Financial

September 19, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Virtu Financial to launch new FX and FI TCA models

Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIRT) has just announced that it will launch new transaction cost and market impact models for FX and fixed income, as part of ongoing enhancements to its comprehensive multi-asset class TCA offering. Kevin O’Connor, Virtu’s Head of Analytics and Workflow, commented: Our ACE Analytics product has been the leading cost and…

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IG Group office

September 19, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

IG Group reports Q1 FY19 volumes, ESMA measures impact just one month of trading

UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has released its scheduled update on its revenue for the three months to 31 August 2019 (Q1 FY20), the first quarter of its financial year ending 31 May 2020 (FY20). Business performance Revenue in Q1 FY20 was £129.1m, 11% higher in comparison with the average of the…

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Trump vs the Fed: Thoughts on the Feud

September 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Trump vs the Fed: Thoughts on the Feud

AMarkets comments on the Trump vs the Fed hot topic in a special guest post exclusive to LeapRate. “Boneheads” is a new word we have learned thanks to Donald Trump. Once again, Mr. Trump confronted the Federal Reserve on the issue of not slashing the interest rates as he’d prefer. In short, he claims that zero-equivalent…

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Marex Spectron launches Marex Financial Products structured note business

September 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Marex Spectron launches Marex Financial Products structured note business

Marex Spectron, the global commodities firm, has announced that it has launched Marex Financial Products. Marex Financial Products is a structured note business that broadens its range of product offerings and helps diversify the firm’s funding and is part of Marex Solutions, the firm’s OTC derivatives arm. Marex Financial Products leverages Solutions’ fintech platform which…

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