Global clearing house LCH announced that they have just added Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd to their members list. Mizuho is the first Japanese financial institution to access LCH SA’s Euro debt clearing services as a member of RepoClear. The financial institution will now have access to the largest netting pool of Euro-denominated debt and will…
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Forex broker Pepperstone announced that they have launched US share contracts with after-market trading, with no data fees, on their MetaTrader 5 platform. Traders can now take positions on Tesla, Alibaba, Apple, and more big names before market open. Pepperstone's unique US shares offering allows clients to trade in and out of positions after the…
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The Executive MD of Equiti Group, Mohamed Alahmad, just announced that an agreement with Riyad Bank is now in effect to provide FX liquidity to the bank using the Equiti platform. The Group’s UK based entity, Equiti Capital, will provide its trading infrastructure and a 24-hour FX service to the bank. Commenting on this agreement,…
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Way back in the year 2000, MetaQuotes, a Russian software development company, released its entry for the online retail trading industry – MetaTrader 4 or MT4 for short. Little did they know at the time that they had a winner on their hands, especially in the fledgling retail forex trading arena. In a few short…
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The Pound is advancing across the board as the UK opposition leaders met today to plot to prevent a no deal Brexit. Boris Johnson is sticking to his do or die Brexit mantra, however, he has expressed a little more optimism that a new deal can still be achieved between the EU and the UK.…
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MiFID II has had a significant impact on the operations and profits of brokers. The plethora of new obligations and ongoing changes to the regulatory landscape has made it more difficult for financial institutions, let alone brokers, to meet their requirements. For many firms, this has resulted in a patchwork of regulatory solutions and systems…
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As part of its mission to expand further into the Latin American market, financial derivatives company MultiBank Group celebrated the opening of its new regional headquarter, MultiBank LATAM, in Monterrey, Mexico. The regional office will be headed by the industry professionals Jorge Alberto González Villarreal and Javier Ernesto González Jiménez. During the opening ceremony of…
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Sydney based forex trading and education service provider ACY Securities announced that it will support The Inter-university Table Tennis Association (ITTA) as a major sponsor for their upcoming 2019 flagship event. ITTA is a not-for-profit student run organisation with the aim of promoting the sport of table tennis across Australia and beyond. Justin Pooni, Head…
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It was the end of August, a time when vacationers flood the French Riviera and coastal communities to enjoy the good life before heading back to work in September, but merchants in the coastal town of Biarritz, France, were anything but happy. Tourists were not in abundance. The streets were bare, almost like a ghost…
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The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) announced today that it has teamed up with distributed ledger technology (DLT) specialist Digital Asset (DA) and VMware. The exchange has signed a three-party memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together with the other two companies on DLT initiatives in Australia and New Zealand. This will include the development of…
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