GAIN Capital reports slow Q4 but fast start to 2018, February Retail FX volumes $283 billion LeapRate

March 08, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

GAIN Capital reports slow Q4 but fast start to 2018, February Retail FX volumes $283 billion

Good news, bad news. Or actually, the other way around. FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), which operates the retail Forex.com and City Index brands and the institutional GTX business, has reported its results for the fourth quarter of 2017, indicating a significant slowing of its business during Q4. That's the bad news.…

Monex teams up with Shizuoka Bank to launch financial instruments intermediary services

March 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monex Group continues 2018 with steady volumes results in February

Monex Group, Inc. (TSE 8698, Oki Matsumoto, Representative Executive Officer and CEO) has reported the following monthly volumes for the month of February 2018. Number of total accounts was just about the same as in January, with a tiny rise of 0.4% to 1,756,137. Average number of trades per business day was slightly down to 147,083…

March 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Companies appoint women for top roles to benefit from experience

The independent membership organisation, Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA), has announced that publicly quoted companies are actively looking to appoint women to top positions to achieve a better boardroom balance and address concerns about diversity in business, as indicated by its newest research. Among quoted companies that recruited for board positions in 2017, 40% explicitly sought out…

OANDA teams up with Fields Institute to offer tighter spreads to traders

March 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

OANDA launches real-time spot FX rates API for FinTech and treasury applications

Online multi-asset trading services company OANDA has recently released a new version of its trusted Exchange Rates API, which has been updated to include real-time currency rates. The rates available on the new API are updated every five seconds, providing a more accurate reflection of current market prices. In addition to providing live rates, the…

Eze Software expands systematic trading support with Trade Informatics’ START

March 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Eze Software bolsters its Eclipse cloud connectivity

The global provider of investment technology, Eze Software, has just announced that it has signed on 60 broker-dealers to provide connectivity for Eze Eclipse, its new, born-in-the-cloud investment management solution. Eze Eclipse, a single unified platform that supports the entire investment workflow, launched in 2017. Eze Software chose 20 emerging equity and event-focused hedge funds as…

March 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exchange Data International releases Short Interest feed

Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data, has informed the public of the release of its Short Interest service. Short interest is a market sentiment indicator that tells whether investors think a stock's price is likely to fall. It can also be compared over time to examine…

March 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

PostFinance becomes a new shareholder of SIX

PostFinance, the Swiss retail financial institution, has just informed that it has become a new shareholder of SIX, the operator of the Swiss financial market infrastructure. With PostFinance, the shareholder base of SIX now includes 127 banks and all significant participants of the Swiss financial center. SIX operates the infrastructure of the Swiss financial center,…

March 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe Europe accepted as Benchmark Administrator under the EU Benchmarks Regulation

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has just announced that Cboe Europe was registered on 5 March 2018 as a Benchmark Administrator under the EU Benchmarks Regulation (BMR). Cboe Europe’s suite of European indices are now BMR compliant. As a Benchmark Administrator, Cboe is required to implement high standards of governance, oversight and transparency with…

March 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters adds new feature to its Data Privacy Advisor

Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) Data Privacy Advisor informed that it is introducing a new feature that lets data privacy professionals quickly and easily track and assess new developments in today’s fast-moving regulatory environment. The Enforcement Heat Map provides an at-a-glance view of enforcement actions across multiple jurisdictions. Users can instantly see which jurisdictions are the most…

March 08, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: T. Rowe Price replaces Teddy Sagi as the largest Playtech shareholder

LeapRate Exclusive... For the first time in a long time, Teddy Sagi is no longer the largest shareholder in Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC). LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that US investment management giant T. Rowe Price Group Inc (NASDAQ:TROW) has significantly increased its position in Playtech over the past week, from about 5% to just over 10.2%.…

Category: Forex

GAIN Capital reports slow Q4 but fast start to 2018, February Retail FX volumes $283 billion

Monex Group continues 2018 with steady volumes results in February

Companies appoint women for top roles to benefit from experience

OANDA launches real-time spot FX rates API for FinTech and treasury applications

Eze Software bolsters its Eclipse cloud connectivity

Exchange Data International releases Short Interest feed

PostFinance becomes a new shareholder of SIX

Cboe Europe accepted as Benchmark Administrator under the EU Benchmarks Regulation

Thomson Reuters adds new feature to its Data Privacy Advisor

Exclusive: T. Rowe Price replaces Teddy Sagi as the largest Playtech shareholder

Western Union Appoints Vince Tallent as Senior Vice President, Head of Asia Pacific

Marex Agrees Deal to Acquire Agrinvest Commodities

FCA to Let Firms Experiment with AI Alongside NVIDIA

ATFX Opens New Office in South Africa

Fiserv to Buy AIB Merchant Services