Tradesmarter’s Wow Trader teams up with oneZero’s technology platform and distribution network LeapRate

January 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Tradesmarter's Wow Trader teams up with oneZero’s technology platform and distribution network

Wow Trader, a proprietary multi-asset trading platform for brokerages, exchanges, and banks, has announced that it has teamed up with oneZero Financial Systems. Wow Trader by Tradesmarter is an intuitive web trading platform offering simplified CFD trading, and the collaboration with oneZero’s EcoSystem will allow it to offer its b2b clients new access to multi-asset liquidity…

January 17, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

INTL FCStone Inc. acquires GMP Securities LLC

INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ:INTL) has just announced that it has received regulatory approval and completed the acquisition of US-based broker-dealer, GMP Securities LLC. The company, previously known as Miller Tabak Roberts Securities, LLC, is an independent, SEC-registered Broker-Dealer and FINRA member and its US-based parent company from GMP International Holdings Corp., a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary…

January 17, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Prime broker Invast Global expands to Hong Kong

Sydney, Australia based boutique prime broker Invast Global has just announced that has opened a new Hong Kong office. Senior Executive Marcus Fung, who has been with Invast since 2013, will lead the Hong Kong business as its CEO. Invast Global has committed to the FX Global Code of Conduct back in June 2018. The…

Five important dates loom large with respect to Bitcoin’s future prospects

January 17, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

TraducationFX launches its white label cryptocurrency calendar

White label trading education provider TraducationFX has added a cryptocurrency calendar to its line of crypto-oriented products. The calendar includes upcoming events that are anticipated to affect the crypto market: conferences, exchange listings, forks, and other updates. At the moment it covers about 25 of the most popular currencies. Denis Alyanov, CEO of TraducationFX, commented…

January 17, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

RegTek.Solutions hires IHS Markit's Chris Cornish as Consultant Business Analyst

RegTek.Solutions, the provider of global regulatory reporting solutions, has just informed that it has appointed Chris Cornish as a Consultant Business Analyst based in London. Cornish previously worked at IHS Markit where he was a Senior Business Analyst and Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) specialist. Prior to this, he was at ICBC Standard Bank, focusing…

January 16, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Government’s heavy defeat on Brexit withdrawal motion: PIMFA comments

The British parliament has rejected Theresa May's Brexit deal by 230 votes yesterday evening. The Brexit vote has left withdrawal from E.U. and prime minister's political future in doubt. The pound has risen after MP's reject with 0.05% to $1.287 after declines of more than 1% earlier in the day. There are no more words…

January 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

LiquidityBook reports 2018 as a record year

LiquidityBook, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has just announced that 2018 has been a record year for the company. Highlights include: Total revenues were up by more than 20% YoY in 2018. Several key senior hires were made in 2018, including Ryan Canfield and Matthew Howard. LiquidityBook signed more than 20…

January 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Saxo Bank appoints Joanne Page as its new CFO for London

Copenhagen based Retail FX broker Saxo Bank has just announced that it has appointed Joanne Page as its new CFO. Page has joined Saxo Capital Markets UK in December 2018. She succeeds Diya Patel, who has left Saxo to pursue new opportunities, as a Saxo spokesperson noted. Patel has been Saxo's CFO since October 2016. Prior to Saxo,…

January 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

TriOptima sets new triReduce portfolio compression service record

TriOptima, a CME Group (LON:NXG) business which lowers costs and mitigates risk in OTC derivatives markets, has announced that it has set a new record for its triReduce portfolio compression service. LeapRate reminds that triReduce compression service hit quadrillion dollar milestone in notional principal eliminated back in June 2017. TriOptima, on the other hand, compressed $250…

January 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group's Asia Pacific ADV up 45% from Q4 2017

Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that it achieved Asia Pacific average daily volume (ADV) of 921,000 contracts in Q4 2018, up 45% from the corresponding period in 2017: Equity products up 201%, Interest Rates up 42%, and Energy products up 35%. For the full year 2018, Asia Pacific ADV stood at 862,000 contracts,…

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