Monex Group, Inc. (TSE 8698, Oki Matsumoto, Representative Executive Officer and CEO) today reported the following monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in September 2017. Global DARTs (DARTs stand for Daily Average Revenue Trades meaning the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) were up 2% MoM to 263,056. Number of total…
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Gemalto, digital security and Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, has just announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers can enhance the security of their cloud workloads and reduce the complexity of managing multiple heterogeneous security solutions with an integrated SafeNet Encryption and Key Management offering. As companies migrate to the cloud, protecting sensitive information efficiently…
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The Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA), the independent membership organisation that champions the interests of small to mid-size quoted companies, held its AGM on 3 October 2017. The membership ratified the appointment of 2 directors and re-elected 5 existing directors. The composition of the board reflects the importance for the QCA to address challenges across the…
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Petal Walker, Chief Counsel to former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Sharon Bowen will leave the CFTC effective today. Petal has been a vital member of my team since I joined the Commission,” said former Commissioner Bowen. “She joined my office with a wealth of knowledge on matters that were critical to the Commission.…
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Following a very strong month of August in which it reported record FX trading volumes of $343 billion, ASIC licensed IC Markets has indicated that it followed that up with $339 billion in September. Due to there being less trading days in September, IC Markets actually did set a monthly best in average daily volumes,…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that AJF Financial Services Ltd, a Cyprus based investment group which operates a number of Retail FX, CFD, and Binary Options trading websites, has renounced its CySEC CIF license and will no longer regulated on the island. AJF first received its CySEC CIF license (number 295/16) in February…
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At the end of last year we reported on the launch of Football INDEX, the first ‘tradeable market’ in football players developed by a group of entrepreneurs led by CEO Adam Cole alongside MT4 integration specialist Gold-i. Well the dream is now a reality, as Football INDEX is operational with clients 'trading' on the value of…
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Gatelab, the financial software company, part of London Stock Exchange Group, announced that has become an approved provider of risk gateway services for third party clients accessing the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The solution enables users to send orders to the BSE currency derivatives segment in ultra low latency, if all the pre-trade risk checks…
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Global forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), which operates the Forex.com retail and GTX institutional FX brands, has announced that Joseph A. Schenk, a current independent director of GAIN Capital, was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Schenk replaces Peter Quick, who will resign as Chairman effective September 27, 2017. Mr. Quick will remain active…
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Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announced that September 2017 average daily volume (ADV) reached 17 million contracts, up 13 percent compared with September 2016 and a rise of 6% MoM. CME Group September 2017 options volume averaged 3.6 million contracts per day, up 25 percent versus September 2016, with electronic options averaging…
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