The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has named Richard R. Best as Regional Director of its Atlanta office. Mr. Best will succeed Walter Jospin, who is leaving the agency at the end of this month. For the past two-and-a-half years, Mr. Best has served as Director of the SEC’s Salt Lake office, where he supervises…
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FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has just reported its operating metrics for the month of December 2017, and the results for the final month of 2017 don't look so good - retail volumes are at their lowest level since 2013. However December is often a bad measure of overall activity, since it…
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UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) noted that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have today issued a letter to all providers and distributors of contracts for difference (CFD) products. IG informed that it welcomes the FCA's review on the provision and distribution of CFD products to clients on an advisory or discretionary…
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Online trading technology provider Tradologic announced that it has acquired the Bulgarian brokerage company FINEX, joining the trend of regulated firms being acquired by foreign entities. According to the company, this is a way to a new regulatory jurisdiction for its clients that wish to offer CFDs and cryptocurrencies. The deal will enable the clients of…
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GMEX Technologies Ltd, a subsidiary of GMEX Group and provider of multi-asset exchange and post-trade technology announced today that it has partnered with Colt Technology Services to deliver the GMEX Exchange-in-a-Box over the Colt PrizmNet financial extranet. GMEX Exchange-in-a-Box is a multi-asset, multi-language hybrid voice and electronic trading platform providing both execution and surveillance capability…
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Swiss Forex brokerage house Dukascopy Bank SA just announced that it has extended the range of tradable CFDs on single stocks at Dukascopy Bank and Dukascopy Europe. Several hundred most liquid stock CFDs from US have been added to the platform. New CFD instruments can be added using the instrument selector in the trading platform.…
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Monex Group, Inc. (TSE 8698, Oki Matsumoto, Representative Executive Officer and CEO) has reported the following monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in December 2017. Global DARTs (DARTs stand for Daily Average Revenue Trades meaning the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) dropped with 11% to 267,264 MoM. Number of total…
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ResearchPool, the global digital platform for investment research, just announced that it has signed a new partnership with Invest Securities, the independent French intermediation company with expertise in brokerage, analysis office, issuers department. Invest Securities and ResearchPool have agreed on a partnership to offer investment companies with a state of the art, MiFID 2-compliant solution…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Pepperstone senior executive Phil Horner has departed the company, in what seems to have been something of an internal power struggle at the Melbourne, Australia based Retail FX broker. Mr. Horner had spent six years working his way up the ranks at Sydney based ASIC licensed broker AxiTrader, joining…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) announced that it is now providing its Cboe One real-time stock quote and trade information to Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI). The Cboe One feed is a market data product from Cboe Global Markets that provides cost-effective, high-quality quote and trade information for market participants looking for comprehensive, real-time market data…
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