FIX Trading Community releases recommended practices for Commission Unbundling as required by MiFID II LeapRate

November 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FIX Trading Community releases recommended practices for Commission Unbundling as required by MiFID II

FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, has today released Recommended Practices for Commission Unbundling as required by MiFID II. MiFID II has introduced the requirement to explicitly separate commissions into their component parts (e.g. execution, research) with a focus on the specific identification of the research component…

November 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Volante Technologies and open banking experts Open Vector announce partnership

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of payments and financial messages on premise or as a cloud service, today announced its partnership with Open Vector, an advisory firm specialising in providing open banking consultancy services. The partnership between Open Vector and Volante Technologies creates an end-to-end service…

November 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX commits to the FX Global Code and introduces a public register

NEX Group (LON:NXG), a financial technology company at the centre of global markets, announced today it has signed a Statement of Commitment to adopt the principles of the FX Global Code across its EBS FX trading platforms and NEX Optimisation services. NEX announced the signing of the Statement of Commitment and introduced a new NEX…

November 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Betfred's FX unit TradeFred gets CySEC license, launches affiliate site Boostmarkets.com

LeapRate Exclusive... Watch out FCA regulated FX and CFD brokers, here they come. LeapRate has learned that Betfred's new entrant in the FX and CFD brokerage space, TradeFred, is expanding with a soon-to-be-launched EU regulated entity in Cyprus. TradeFred has also already expanded its international footprint with a live operation in Australia. And, the company…

Vela and PlusWealth to enable traders to easily access Indian markets

November 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Vela launches Systematic Internaliser Data Hub, expands MiFID II solution suite

Vela, the premier market access technology provider, today announced the launch of its Systematic Internaliser (SI) Data Hub, part of its comprehensive MiFID II solution suite. Vela has also confirmed the addition of Sun Trading as part of its roll-out of new Systematic Internaliser venues. Vela’s SI Data Hub provides clients with access to multiple…

Match-Trade launches a Partnership Program

November 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

R3’s Corda partner network grows to over 60 companies including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel and Microsoft

The network of partners working with enterprise software firm R3 to develop distributed ledger technology (DLT) based applications on its Corda platform has grown to over 60 companies from a wide variety of industries and regions across the globe. The Corda partner network consists of companies that are actively engaged with the Corda platform, including:…

November 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

IC Markets launches Stock CFDs on MT5

ASIC regulated Retail FX broker International Capital Markets Pty. Ltd. (IC Markets) informed that it has launched Stock CFD trading for clients on the MT5 platform. The release of Stock CFDs follows the addition of the multi asset MetaTrader 5 platform by IC Markets in May earlier this year, along with a number of other…

November 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Saxo Bank multi asset trading volumes down 4% in slow October to $328.5 billion

Continuing a fairly slow October we have seen at some of the world's leading FX and CFD brokers, Copenhagen based multi asset broker Saxo Bank has released figures indicating that FX and overall trading activity was down slightly month-over-month. Overall, total multi-asset trading volumes at Saxo Bank were down 4% MoM in October, $328.5 billion…

November 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM posts Q3 Revenues of $44.0 million down 11% QoQ, $4.2 million Operating Loss

Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR), which owns 50% of Retail FX broker FXCM Group, has filed its third quarter results with U.S. regulatory authorities indicating that it (as well as FXCM) saw Revenues decline by 11% from the second quarter, $44.0 million in Q3 versus $49.4 million in Q2. The company(ies) reported a Q3 net operating…

Dukascopy adds new CFD bonds and indices for trading on LIVE

November 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Dukascopy goes live with Chained Binary Option contracts

After launching in demo mode last month, Geneva based Retail FX broker Dukascopy has announced that its Chained Option Contracts product has been released for Live trading. Binary traders of Dukascopy Bank and Dukascopy Europe can now use two types of automated trading strategies: Winning and Martingale. Winning is a follow-the-trend strategy, one of the most…

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