Category: Forex

FXSpotStream FX volumes
January 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream December FX volumes $19.8 billion ADV, 2017 up 7%

Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that December FX trading volumes came in at a fairly strong $19.8 billion ADV, making December one of FXSpotStream's best months of the year despite the usual holiday-related slowdown in the FX trading sector. For the year, FXSpotStream averaged $19.5 billion in daily volumes, up 7% over 2016's…

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January 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Intercontinental Exchange completes acquisition of Virtu BondPoint

Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIRT), a technology-enabled market maker and liquidity provider to the global financial markets, today announced the closing of the sale of the BondPoint business to Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) for a total purchase price of $400 million. Back in October 2017, Virtu shared it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Virtu’s fixed…

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January 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CBOE Hotspot partners with Celer Technologies to provide streaming forwards & NDF trading GUI

Celer Technologies, a provider of Foreign Exchange trading technology solutions to banks, brokers, buy-side, ECNs and trading venues just announced its partnership with Hotspot, a CBOE Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, and institutional FX trading platform. Celer Tech’s bespoke trading GUI allows customers to access Hotspot’s outright streaming deliverable forward and NDF liquidity. In May…

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January 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Dollar starts 2018 low, good days for the euro

The dollar fell to its lowest in over three months on Tuesday, while surprisingly upbeat Chinese manufacturing data ensured there was no serious new year hangover for world shares despite a groggy start for Europe, Reuters reported earlier today. Sentiment was also helped by news that North Korea had offered an olive branch to South…

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daily markets news
January 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

LSE 2017-end rally with new record highs

Another day of record-breaking on Friday, the half-day session being the last trading day of 2017, with fresh highs for both the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 while the AIM All-Share Index traded around its highest level since 2008, London Stock Exchange (LSE) reported. The FTSE 100 index closed up 0.9%, or 64.89 points at…

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January 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

China Exchanges Services Company announces Board change

China Exchanges Services Company Limited (CESC), a joint venture (JV) of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) for the development of financial products and related services, announced Peng Zi from SZSE, has joined its Board with effect from today (2 January 2018). Mr Peng replaced…

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BIS announces key appointments in Singapore and Switzerland
January 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS hires Euroclear and Broadway execs for FX Product and Sales roles

CLS, a market infrastructure delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, announced that it has strengthened its product development and sales teams with the appointments of Angus Scott as Head of Product and Lisa Danino-Lewis as Head of Sales EMEA. Following a year in which CLS announced it is developing a broader range of forward-looking solutions,…

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