CLS Group just reported its annual volumes and shared that in 2018 it experienced a 2.5% increase in new business in its FX settlement service CLSSettlement. The average daily settlement volume was USD130 billion. CLS has already released record traded volumes in CLSSettlement in its H1 2018 interim report. More than 90% of this growth…
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EBS, a provider of online trading systems and technology solutions to firms in the foreign exchange industry, today revealed that it will release an advanced API streaming service on its EBS Quant Analytics platform (formerly referred to as NEX Quant Analytics), an all-inclusive analytics tool operated on a community basis. The firm plans to launch…
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The digital wallet provider Skrill Ltd. announced that it has signed a sponsorship deal with the Los Angeles-based LA10 Football Club. Skrill Ltd., part of the payments services company Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS), has just teamed up with the club, which was launched last September and has the backing of the former Juventus F.C. captain Alessandro Del Piero. Skrill's aim of…
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IS Prime, part of ISAM Capital Markets, just announced that it has appointed Claudia Lucas, an experienced business development executive and native Spanish speaker, to its institutional sales team. Lucas has previously worked in business development roles at Swissquote and Formax Prime Capital. At IS Prime she will focus on sales to Latam and Europe,…
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Global commodities broker Marex Spectron has just announced that it has appointed Carla Stent as its new Non-Executive Chair of the Group Board. Carla Stent, until recently Chair of the Audit & Compliance Committee, takes over from Simon Heale, who stood down in December after three years in the role. Stent's current Board roles include the Post Office Limited,…
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London-based FCA regulated brokerage Stater Global Markets just announced that it has joined oneZero’s EcoSystem. The Prime of Prime brokerage offers direct access to Tier 1 bank and non-bank liquidity. It has now extended the distribution of its FX and CFD liquidity to oneZero’s network and co-located with oneZero in LD4, with cross connections now in place…
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Nicolas Salles was appointed to the position by the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) on 10 January 2019 where he will be in charge of optimizing the management of data assets and will also be the key coordinator and facilitator of the AMF's data governance platform. He will report directly to Philippe Guillot, a…
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Online financial trading broker ThinkMarkets has announced that it has teamed up with fast bowler Glenn McGrath for the launch of the Think 2020 programme. The partnership aims to promote sport to disadvantaged young people and provide opportunities to a new generation of financial gurus. During the Think 2020 programme McGrath will meet young people from Sydney…
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LCH has expanded its non-deliverable interest rate swaps offering yesterday, adding five additional currencies - Brazilian Real, Chilean Peso, Colombian Peso, Taiwan Dollar and Thai Baht. The global clearing house began clearing of non-deliverable interest rate swaps last April. Since then, market participants have been able to clear this product denominated in Chinese Yuan, Korean…
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CME Group (NASDAQ:CME)'s new legal entity CME Amsterdam B.V. will be fully operational from 18 March 2019, since the approval from the Dutch Minister of Finance is already a fact. The newly formed Amsterdam establishment will ensure that CME Group's BrokerTec and EBS venues and CME Regulatory Reporting services (formerly NEX Regulatory Reporting) can continue to service…
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