Category: Forex

May 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Börse elects three new members to Supervisory Board

Deutsche Börse AG has just announced that its shareholders gave their approval to increase the number of Supervisory Board members from 12 to 16. In addition, the following new members were elected for three leaving members of the shareholder representatives: During his professional career in Germany and abroad, Martin Jetter has held various senior roles…

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May 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Saxo Bank Australia hires JB Markets’ Eleanor Creagh as Markets Strategist

Saxo Capital Markets, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, has just announced the appointment of Eleanor Creagh to the newly-created role of Australia Markets Strategist. Ms Creagh will support Saxo’s expert Global Sales Trading team with trading ideas and financial market insights, reporting to Saxo Bank Group’s Chief Economist and Chief Investment Strategist, Steen…

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May 17, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Playtech shareholders reject CEO and Directors' pay policy at Annual Meeting

In a fairly rare occurrence in today's corporate world, online gaming and financial technologies provider Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) has seen its shareholders reject the company's proposed Annual Report on Remuneration at the company Annual Meeting held yesterday in the Isle of Man. Except in rare circumstances, annual meeting board resolutions are usually adopted (by wide margins) at…

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May 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group April volumes down 4% MoM in April

CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has published its operating metrics for the month of April. It shows a year on year increase of 17.2%. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.777 trillion down 4.2% from USD1.855 trillion in March 2018.   Average daily…

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May 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ImpacTech releases intelligent data-driven CRM for MT5 brokers

Cyprus-based FinTech provider ImpacTech has announced that it is about to offer brokers an intelligent enterprise management system, called ImpactCRM. It can be ordered in MetaQuotes' Marketplace of ready-made brokerage solutions for MetaTrader 5. The architecture of ImpactCRM offers out-of-the-box connectivity with 250 payment providers, Back Office Tools, Risk Management Analytics and provides integration with…

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May 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters launches AI to filter media content in fight against financial crime

Information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) announced that it has enhanced its World-Check One platform with the launch of Media Check, a unique media screening and processing feature powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that helps address the regulatory and reputational consequences of overlooking key data in the fight against financial crime. Media Check’s machine learning capability…

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May 15, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

CFH Clearing hires IS Prime's Andy Biggs as Head of Liquidity

CFH Clearing, the FX liquidity and risk management services arm of Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC), has announced that it has appointed Andy Biggs as Head of Liquidity in a newly created role. Andy Biggs joins CFH Clearing from FCA regulated rival firm IS Prime, where he was Head of Liquidity for the last three years and…

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May 15, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ADS Investment Solutions licenses new FTSE Russell Saudi Arabia index

Two months after promoting Saudi Arabia to Emerging Markets status, FTSE Russell has announced that it has launched a new Saudi Arabia-focused index. The FTSE ADS Custom Saudi Minimum Variance Index has been developed in collaboration with Abu Dhabi-based international financial services company, ADS Investment Solutions. The index has been licensed by ADS Investment Solutions…

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