Turkey’s IS Bank has just announced that it has launched the Autochartist market analysis service within its mobile application. Ilan Azbel, CEO at Autochartist, commented: It has been an absolute pleasure to work with IS Bank on this project; they have been meticulous in their thought process and implementation. I have no doubt in my…
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Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIRT) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Investment Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE:ITG) back in September 2018. The company has agreed to acquire ITG in a cash transaction valued at $30.30 per ITG share. September 2018 was definitely a good month for the company, as it has prepaid another $74 million…
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Interdealer broker TP ICAP plc has announced that it has added David Shalders as Chair of the Board's Risk Committee on a permanent basis and is appointed a member of the Audit Committee with immediate effect. Leaprate reminds that JP Morgan’s Richard Berliand has recently joined TP ICAP’s Board as Chairman. Angela Knight, non-executive director and a…
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eToro, the global, multi-asset, investment platform, has just announced that it has added ZCash (ZEC) to its product range. This brings the total number of cryptoassets available on eToro to 14, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, XRP, Litecoin, Ethereum Classic, Dash, Stellar, NEO, EOS, Cardano, IOTA, and BNB. ZEC will also be added to eToro's CryptoPortfolio. ZCash…
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Ahead of National Data Privacy Day, which is observed annually on 28th January, a selection of commentary can be seen below from a variety of industry experts discussing data privacy in the digital era. A poll carried out last year revealed a staggering 90% of people were “very concerned” about their internet privacy. Data privacy…
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Global clearing house LCH has announced that Corentine Poilvet-Clediere has been named Head of RepoClear and Collateral Management, LCH SA, effective immediately. She will be responsible for LCH SA’s euro-denominated debt and repo clearing service, RepoClear, as well as the clearing house’s collateral management function. Corentine Poilvet-Clediere previous work places include London Stock Exchange Group, CDSClear…
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Market volatility generated an exceptional amount of processing volume for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) in 2018 – 66.7 billion electronic records per day, up 87.4% over the ADV in 2017. FINRA has already reported an unprecedented amount of market activity through the first six months of 2018, averaging a record 57.9 billion electronic records…
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Multi-asset electronic trading solutions provider smartTrade Technologies has just informed that it has strengthened its senior management and sales team with the addition of Annalisa Sarasini and Lionel Sancenot. Annalisa Sarasini, Chief Business Development Officer, will drive the Business Development Strategy and lead smartTrade through its next stage of growth. Sarasini has been promoted from Global Head of Sales…
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Retail FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has announced the appointments of Boris Levine as Head of IT Development and Rasmus Hansen as Head of Infrastructure Technology. Both executives report to Alastair Hine, Chief Operating Officer of GAIN Capital, and are based in GAIN's London office. Boris and Rasmus each bring many years of…
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AlphaPoint has announced the appointment of Scott Grayson as its new SVP & Head of Enterprise Sales. Grayson comes from the blockchain platform company R3, where he was the Chief Sales Officer. AlphaPoint is a provider of asset digitization software, and of trading technology for licensed broker-dealers, ATS and exchange operators. The company has also recently named Kapil…
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