CBOE Holdings, Inc. today unveiled its new name, Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (BZX: CBOE |NASDAQ: CBOE), identity and mission at the Futures Industry Association (FIA) Expo 2017 conference, currently taking place in Chicago. The changes were made to better reflect the evolving nature and spirit of the company and follows the acquisition of Bats Global…
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Interdealer broker TP ICAP (LON:TCAP) has announced the appointment of Edmund Ng as an independent Non-executive Director. This follows the decision by the Board, as outlined in the 2016 Annual Report, to recruit a new Non-executive Director from Asia. Edmund Ng is based in Hong Kong and has extensive experience of Asia. Edmund Ng is…
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Match-Trade Technologies, headquartered in Irvine, California, is pleased to announce the launch of MT5 suite of products and services for retail brokers. Match-Trade has added this multi-asset trading platform (FX, CFDs and Stocks) to its growing portfolio of products, which includes a high demand cryptocurrency related products. Match-Trade has decided to add the MT5 trading…
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The changes at Saxo Bank have begun. In the first major move made at the Copenhagen based multi asset broker since China's Geely Group became the controlling shareholder in Saxo Bank earlier this month (pending regulatory approval), LeapRate has learned that Saxo has agreed to the departure of longtime UK office head Matteo Cassina. Aside from acting…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Australia based Retail FX broker AxiTrader has hired Mario Soto as Country Head Philippines. Mr. Soto will continue to be based in Sydney. Mario Soto has been in the FX sector since 2010. He was previously Head of Sales Asia Pacific at Easy Forex (now easyMarkets). He has also worked…
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The following article was written by Chris Svorcik and Nenad Kerkez, of trading analysis/systems provider Elite CurrenSea. Dear Traders, Do you ever ask yourself what is the best method for analyzing charts? Some trading experts emphasize very simple charts whereas others show complex charts with tons of indicators. In fact, the best approach is based…
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Torstone Technology, a provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announced that Peel Hunt, an independent corporate broking, advisory and trading house focusing on mid & small-cap companies, is expanding its use of Inferno for its US business, Peel Hunt Inc. In signing a multi-year deal to use Inferno, Peel Hunt now has more…
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Brokeree Solutions announced that it has launched a portfolio of institutional solutions for MetaTrader 5, including the cryptocurrency feed (Bitcoin). In addition, the company has the following offers for brokers switching to the new platform: MetaTrader 5 Liquidity Bridge with the ability to aggregate liquidity providers PAMM plugin for arranging the investment management Extended Agent…
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Clearstream, the post-trade services provider of Deutsche Börse Group, and Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG (dwpbank), one of the largest securities services providers for Germany’s financial market, have entered into a strategic partnership regarding the settlement of securities in a post-T2S world. The goal of this long-term cooperation is to maximise the benefits from the ECB’s…
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Leveraging distributed ledger technology and cloud services, BBVA and BBVA Bancomer are piloting an FX matching application developed by Calypso Technology, a provider of cloud-based cross-asset trading software solutions for the financial markets, and enterprise software firm R3. The application, which runs on R3’s Corda platform and is facilitated by Calypso’s cloud services, has already…
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