The EBRD has just informed that it is bringing together its energy and infrastructure teams in a consolidated Sustainable Infrastructure group headed by Nandita Parshad as Managing Director. Ms Parshad is currently Managing Director for Energy and Natural Resources at the Bank and in her new role will lead the Bank’s engagement in environmental, transport…
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Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), has announced that it has launched an aggregate bond service to help clients access fixed income trade data that is available as a result of MiFID II in a single, simple aggregated data feed. The trade data from approved publication arrangements (APAs) and multilateral trading…
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FCA regulated online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has continued to make purchases of its own stock pursuant to a recently announced share buyback. The company announced that last week it acquired a total of 30,455 PLUS shares, at an average share price of £12.744, for a layout of £388,119. That brings the grand total of shares…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that ASIC licensed Australia-based Retail FX brokerage group USGFX has taken a major step toward Europe, setting up a UK subsidiary called Union Standard International Group Limited (we'll call it USGFX UK). The company had applied for and received an FCA license for USGFX UK, which became effective on November 5.…
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Which retail and institutional forex brokers announced new names and major rebrandings? What's wrong with liquidity provider Revshare agreements? Which major Playtech shareholder sold a chunk of its stake, for the first time since June 2017? Who is PrimeXM's new Head of Sales? Answers to these questions and more appeared first or only at LeapRate.…
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The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has just published the 2018 list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) using end-2017 data and an assessment methodology designed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). One bank (Groupe BPCE) has been added to the list and two banks (Nordea and Royal Bank of Scotland) have been removed…
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Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech firm and recent addition to the S&P 500® Index, has just announced a strategic partnership with Tableau Software, delivering enhanced analytics and visualization capabilities to Broadridge’s investment management clients. Clients will have seamless integration between the Broadridge Investment Management Data Warehouse and Tableau to provide self-service access…
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Pepperstone Limited, the London based FCA regulated arm of leading Australian Retail FX brokerage group Pepperstone, has indicated in regulatory filings that the company brought in £4.98 million (USD $6.4 million) from CFD commissions and spreads for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018, the company's first full year of operation. The company grew its…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) has announced its suite of energy futures and options reached a daily trading volume record of 5,103,881 contracts on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, surpassing the previous record of 5,067,833 contracts set on Dec. 1, 2016. Customers are increasingly accessing the deep liquidity across our energy markets to manage price risk during this…
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LCH SwapAgent, a service for the non-cleared derivatives market, has announced that it has processed its first swaption trade. Two swaptions trades were completed between Nomura and Deutsche Bank, one denominated in Euro and the other in US Dollars. The trades were brokered by ICAP, part of TP ICAP group, and processed by MarkitSERV. Deutsche…
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