Category: Forex

Terry Gill IS Prime
July 04, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

IS Prime hires Edgewater Markets' Terry Gill for Institutional Sales role

FX liquidity and prime brokerage services provider IS Prime has announced that Terry Gill, former Director at Edgewater Markets, has joined IS Prime’s Agency Execution team in a newly created Institutional Sales role. The appointment reflects the firm’s commitment to the growth of its Agency Execution business, having recently announced the addition of NDFs and Forwards…

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NEX Markets connects with Eurex to launch new clearing solution for BrokerTec Europe customers
July 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX Group releases steady market volumes in June

NEX Group plc (LON:NXG), a financial technology company at the centre of global markets, has just announced its trading statement for the month of June 2018. Spot FX results were down 5% MoM. US Treasury’s numbers also dropped to 156.6 with 12% MoM. The complete results can be seen in the table below: NEX Markets…

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LMAX Global
July 04, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

LMAX Global partners with TFB for MT5 broker white label solution

LMAX Global, the FCA regulated FX brokerage arm of the LMAX Exchange Group, has announced the launch of an MT5 white label solution in partnership with Tools for Brokers (TFB), a leading software provider for FX brokers operating on Metatrader platforms. The partnership creates a market leading and technically robust solution for brokers, who would…

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CLS
July 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLSTradeMonitor goes live with asset managers

CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, has announced that its new post-trade monitoring and reporting tool, CLSTradeMonitor, has gone live with the first asset managers, including Mesirow Financial and Mountain Pacific Advisors, LLC. CLSTradeMonitor improves operational efficiency, provides transparency, and reduces operational risk for third parties currently settling in CLS.…

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FXSpotStream FX volumes
July 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXSpotStream continues its record FX volumes in June

Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has just announced that June volumes totaled $637.7 billion - down slightly from May's record $645.4 billion, but still up 8% over May in terms of average daily volumes. FXSpotStream is a bank owned consortium operating as a market utility, providing the infrastructure that facilitates a multibank API and GUI to…

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J.P. Morgan goes live with client clearing at LCH CDSClear
July 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

J.P. Morgan goes live with client clearing at LCH CDSClear

LCH, a global clearing house, has announced that J.P. Morgan has gone live as CDSClear’s first US bank to offer client clearing. As a result, Swedish pension fund AMF is now clearing European and US credit default swaps through CDSClear, using J.P. Morgan Securities Plc as its clearing broker. This development is the latest achievement…

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June 29, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

PwC Hong Kong signs investment agreement with Vitargent

PwC Hong Kong (PwC) has announced that it has entered into an investment agreement today with Vitargent International Holdings Limited, a pioneer in bio-testing technology for product safety. This is PwC's first proposed investment in the biotechnology and internet platform space, bringing together the strengths of PwC and Vitargent to address evolving challenges in food…

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