Category: Forex

April 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Paysafe adds Karim Ahmad to its executive team

Payments services company Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS) has announced the appointment, with immediate effect, of Karim Ahmad to the newly created role of Chief Product and Transformation Officer. The new executive role reflects Paysafe’s intensified investment in extending its products and capabilities via an integrated, global payments platform as well as its ongoing strategic drive…

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April 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FINAM to offer MetaTrader 5 with single account support

Russian broker FINAM Forex announced that it has connected the new platform to its single trading account. Now, the broker's clients can trade MOEX, SPB Exchange, NYSE and Nasdaq instruments via MetaTrader 5. This is a persuasive response to the popular comment of technology pessimists who claim that, "The platform is good, but you need…

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April 03, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Remonda Kirketerp-Møller on returning to CFH, FX liquidity, and more

LeapRate Exclusive Interview... Continuing our series of interviews with some of the leading personalities in the FX world, we are pleased to speak today with Remonda Kirketerp-Møller. If the name doesn't ring a bell, her resume certainly should. Remonda joined Saxo Bank in 2003 and played a key role in developing the Legal and Compliance Department…

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April 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Gemalto to provide enhanced data security with NetApp

Digital security company Gemalto has announced that SafeNet KeySecure has been validated for use with the latest release of NetApp® Volume Encryption (NVE) data management solution. As a result, NetApp customers do not need to encrypt the entire disk drive; they can choose to encrypt granularly at the volume level without the need and additional…

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April 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

OCC cleared contract volume up 15% in March

Equity derivatives clearing organization OCC has announced that total cleared contract volume in March reached 442,945,572 contracts, a 15% increase from March 2017. Highlights include: Highest first quarter volume and highest first quarter for equity options on record Cleared futures average daily volume for quarter up six percent from Q1 2017 Index options volume up…

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April 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream reports another strong month with March FX volumes at $27.5 billion ADV

After two consecutive record months for FX trading volumes to start 2018, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that March volumes came in at $27.5 billion ADV - slightly (4%) below February's record $28.8 billion ADV, but still topping January’s $26.3 billion making March 2018 FXSpotStream’s second best month ever. FXSpotStream’s previous volume record coming…

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April 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Z.com Trade changes its Classic Account to market execution expanding liquidity sources

Z.com Trade, the FCA regulated brokerage arm of Japanese retail forex giant GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), has announced that effective today the execution mode on its Classic Account will be changed to Market Execution. Currently Z.com Trade's Classic Account uses the Instant Execution mode, however this setting unfortunately limits the liquidity sources available. This change is necessary…

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April 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

TradingScreen inks partnership with Liquidnet to bolster order access and execution

Electronic trading solutions provider TradingScreen has announced a new partnership with Liquidnet, a global institutional trading network, to further benefit buy-side customers’ order access and execution capabilities. The partnership allows for integration with TradingScreen's order and execution management system TradeSmart, enabling users to access Liquidnet's global pool of institutional liquidity and advanced trading strategies. TradeSmart is a…

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