CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market today published its operating metrics for the month of September 2017. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.750 trillion up 10.7% from USD1.581 trillion in August 2017. September 2016 August 2017 September 2017 Average daily traded volume…
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Electronic trading network operator NEX Group PLC (LON:NXG) has announced that it is undertaking what it calls a "significant restructure" of its post trade division NEX Optimisation, which will see the departure of CEO Jenny Knott. Jenny Knott joined ICAP, now NEX, in August 2015 with a strategic mandate to transform the company's portfolio of post trade, risk…
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Horizon Software, the global provider of electronic trading and investment management technology, has today announced that Guohai Liangshi Capital Management Co Ltd (GHLS),the subsidiary company of Guohai Futures, has chosen Horizon’s platform for options market making and trading, as well as delta one trading. Guohai Liangshi Capital Management Co Ltd, the subsidiary of Guohai Liangshi…
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LeapRate Exclusive… The integration of Tickmill and Vipro Markets continues. Just several days after we reported exclusively that Retail FX and CFDs broker Tickmill has named Philippos Psyllos as Group CTO, LeapRate has learned that Tickmill has promoted Marilena Iakovou to Group Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). The Cyprus based Ms. Iakovou had joined CySEC regulated…
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Bank of China Hong Kong (BOCHK) has announced that it will be adopting Thomson Reuters Electronic Trading and FXall via the FX Trading (FXT) Platform. BOCHK’s treasury, sales and trading departments will use Thomson Reuters FX solutions to increase access to liquidity, streamline workflows and improve efficiency. FXall and Electronic Trading are available on FXT,…
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Just a week after it announced that it is adding Autochartist automated technical analysis and content, Sydney based FX ECN broker IC Markets has indicated that it is partnering with Melbourne-based Trade View Investments to offer its clients Trade Views' EA Lab automated trading system builder for the MetaTrader 4 platform. The partnership will help…
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In FX Industry News this week... What leverage and volume limits did Cyprus regulator CySEC place on brokers who offer trading in Bitcoin, Ethereum and other digital currency CFDs? Which FX broker now plans a Singapore Exchange IPO? Which former CEO is suing the Chairman of a trading platform company? What management and board changes…
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HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HSBC) announced that John Flint, Chief Executive of Retail Banking and Wealth Management, will succeed Stuart Gulliver as Executive Director and Group Chief Executive. This will be effective from 21 February 2018 after Stuart has stepped down from both roles and retired from HSBC. Group Chairman Mark Tucker, who led the search to…
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SIX Swiss Exchange is to partner with London Stock Exchange Group to establish a link to their UnaVista service to facilitate transaction reporting for products admitted to trading on SIX Swiss Exchange for remote participants. The service from UnaVista will allow remote participants of SIX Swiss Exchange to fulfil their reporting obligations under the Swiss…
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It looks like a legal battle for control of electronic trading solutions provider TradingScreen may be brewing. Following our report yesterday of a (supposed) lawsuit filed in Geneva against TradingScreen by a group stating that it represents the majority of common shareholders in TradingScreen, we have an official statement from the company itself refuting the claims.…
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