NEX Group plc (LON:NXG), a financial technology company at the centre of global markets, announces markets volumes for the month of December 2017. Spot FX results continue its drop from November, this time with 21% YoY, but the numbers look steady looking at the MoM change. US Treasury’s numbers are also down to 148.5 YoY with…
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PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, announced that it has achieved its best trading result to date on its spot segments, reaching a new record with 95.7 TWh (previous record: 85.4 in January 2017). The total traded volume amounted to 169.3 TWh in December, an increase of 11% compared to the previous…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) announced that 2017 average daily volume (ADV) reached a record 16.3 million contracts, up 4 percent from 2016. During 2017, there were 34 trading days above 20 million contracts, up from 32 days in 2016, despite significantly lower volatility. CME Group reached several annual average daily volume records in 2017.…
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LeapRate Exclusive... It is good to be in demand. LeapRate has learned that Simon Bird has joined the board of FCA regulated Monecor (London) Limited. Monecor is the parent company of London-based spreadbetting and CFDs broker ETX Capital. We had just reported earlier today that Simon Bird was named as Non Executive Chairman of one-time…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) today reported that Cboe Europe Equities traded more than €20 billion in notional value on Cboe LIS, its European large-in-scale block trading platform powered by BIDS technology, since it launched in December 2016. Additionally, December was another record month of volume for Cboe Europe Equities’ Periodic Auctions order book,…
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On January 2, 2018 Nadex submitted to the Commission an emergency notice pursuant to Commission Rule 40.6(a), that on trade date Tuesday, January 2, 2018, the underlying GBP/USD cash market experienced a period of decreased activity at the open of the Nadex derivative contracts. The expiration value calculation process under ‘slow’ conditions would collect midpoints…
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Closing out its best year ever which saw the company climb to become one of the largest Retail FX brokers, FCA and CySEC regulated Exness has reported that December Forex trading volumes came in at $256.6 billion - down 21% from November's record $324.4 billion, but still a good result for the normally slow end-of-year month.…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) announced that it has launched a new microsite designed to educate and inform investors about exchange-traded volatility products (ETPs). Cboe is the home of the Cboe Volatility Index® (VIX® Index), which is considered by many to be the world's premier barometer of equity market volatility. The VIX Index is…
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Leading online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has issued its Trading Update for the end of 2017, indicating that the company will report a record quarter for Q4 in terms of Revenues. We would remind our readers that in Q3 Plus500 reported what we called a 'monster' quarter, with then-best-ever Revenues of $116.5 million, EBITDA of…
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LeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned that Ikon Finance Limited, the FCA regulated arm of the global Ikon Group, has named Simon Bird as its Non Executive Chairman. LeapRate had exclusively reported in November that Mr. Bird was making a comeback of sorts to the FX industry, as he was set to join the board of Ikon…
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