Category: Forex

Exclusive: Edgewater Markets expands with new personnel in Singapore
August 02, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exclusive: Edgewater Markets expands with new personnel in Singapore

Leaprate Exclusive... Edgewater Markets, the NFA-registered non-bank FX liquidity provider, has just informed LeapRate that it has welcomed aboard Rick Lloyd as Director of eFX Sales out of its Singapore office. Rick Lloyd brings a wealth of experience in the Foreign Exchange markets space spanning over 30 years of industry expertise working for corporate and…

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August 01, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXCM Group reports June 2019 execution data

Retail forex broker FXCM (NYSE:FXCM) released its execution data for June 2019. The highlights can be seen below. June 2019 all instruments highlights include: 66.6% of orders executed at price 22.0% of orders executed with positive slippage 11.3% of orders executed with negative slippage Average execution speed 33 milliseconds Highlighted Instruments June 2019: More recent…

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FinTech company TigerWit receives Hong Kong SFC licence
August 01, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

TigerWit continues to establish partner networks

UK-based global fintech firm, TigerWit Limited, informed that it has established partner networks delivering support and education in multiple jurisdictions outside of the more established European markets, including within Latin America, Africa, South East Asia and the Middle East. Tim Hughes, CEO at TigerWit commented on the news: By establishing partner networks in other jurisdictions…

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July 31, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Interactive Brokers partners with Tradesocio for multi-asset liquidity

Securities firm and liquidity provider Interactive Brokers has just announced that it will join financial tech provider Tradesocio’s ecosystem of financial institutions and financial technology providers known as Tradesocio Marketplace. Interactive Brokers joins the line of Tradesocio’s liquidity partners, thus allowing financial services providers adopting Tradesocio’s technology to also integrate Interactive Brokers’ liquidity engine, using…

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smartTrade increases presence in Australia, strengthens partnership with NAB
July 31, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Clearstream completes Ausmaq Limited acquisition

Clearstream has today completed the acquisition of Ausmaq Limited from National Australia Bank (NAB). LeapRate reminds that the company reached an agreement with NAB to acquire its Sydney-based specialist managed funds services business Ausmaq Limited back in May this year. Clearstream's expansion to the Australian funds market and the future set-up of Ausmaq will be…

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July 31, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS launches same-day FX settlement service, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs to try it first

CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, has today launched CLSNow, a bilateral, same-day FX gross payment-versus-payment (PvP) settlement service. J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs are reported to be the first banks to go live on the service. CLSNow enables banks to exchange currency positions with mitigated settlement risk on a…

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