Social trading focused broker ayondo, which went public earlier this year on the Singapore Exchange, has announced fairly disappointing results for the third quarter of 2018. Overall, ayondo revenues totaled just under CHF 4.0 million (USD $3.98 million) in Q3-2018, down 15% from Q2 and off 23% from last year's Q3, from before when the…
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Refinitiv, formerly Thomson Reuters Financial and Risk, has announced that it has signed an agreement with Nordic investment management firm E. Öhman J: or Fonder (Öhman) to deliver an end-to-end workflow solution for their investment management business. The agreement will cover the entire pre- to post-trade workflow, and allows Öhman to leverage the full depth…
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Canadian financial regulator BCSC (British Columbia Securities Commission) has issued a warning against offshore CFDs broker Rocket Consultant Group. The move comes just several days after a similar warning issued by New Zealand's FMA involving CCM Clearing Limited, a Bulgaria based entity which the FMA said is associated with Rocket Consultant Group. The FMA stated that Rocket Consultant Group could…
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BNP Paribas, the European provider of banking and financial services, and GTS, a New York-based global electronic market maker, have just announced the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU signed at BNP Paribas’ annual flagship Global Markets conference in London expands on an existing collaboration on US Treasuries to apply to…
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DriveWealth, LLC, a global digital trading technology company, has announced a strategic partnership with Trading Central, a financial market research and investment analytics firm. The new relationship will allow the two companies to leverage the complementary elements of their businesses: seamless, digital, mobile-first transaction capabilities and sophisticated, accessible and actionable financial content. DriveWealth CEO Robert…
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big xyt, the independent provider of high-volume, smart data and analytics capabilities, has just announced further client driven enhancements to its Liquidity Cockpit. With the introduction of a dedicated dashboard for analysing SI volumes, eligible users have the option to view and compare the reported SI volumes filtered by adjusted conditions, analysed by time, by…
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Mainframe, the web3 platform for deploying secure decentralized applications, has announced three additions to the company's senior leadership team - Pete Abilla, Sarah Wiley and Blake Ferguson - that will based in the Salt Lake City, UT office. Mick Hagen, CEO of Mainframe said: I am thrilled to welcome these phenomenal individuals to Mainframe as…
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Forex, CFDs and cryptocurrency derivatives trading broker ThinkMarkets has just announced that it has extended its CFD product offering to include global equities. The firm now covers trading in equity derivatives contracts from North America, Europe & Asia financial markets. The new instruments will be available on the firm’s proprietary trading platform, Trade Interceptor. In…
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) has announced the appointment of a new Chairman and two non-executive members of the Board of Nasdaq Nordic Ltd: Peter Norman, as the new Chairman, and Carl Löfgren and Merja Karhapää as Board members. Lars Wedenborn, Chairman of Nasdaq Nordic, has stepped down after serving on the Board for nine years and…
Read moreThe EU and UK have reached a provisional agreement over Brexit but before anyone gets too excited or disappointed, there are big hurdles to overcome to get the draft deal approved on all sides first. U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has to get her Cabinet of ministers and then a majority of parliament to approve…
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