Category: Forex

CFTC offices
October 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFTC announces Clearinghouse Liquidity Stress Test results

Staff of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued a report detailing the results of an evaluation of settlement liquidity at clearinghouses. The purpose of the analysis was to assess the impact of a hypothetical extreme but plausible market scenario on the ability of three clearinghouses to meet their settlement obligations on time.…

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October 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Calypso Technology sees rapid growth for its cloud services offering in 2017

Calypso Technology Inc., a provider of innovative cross-asset capital markets and investment management software, announced that it has seen a rapid increase in demand for Calypso Cloud Services. Calypso plans to continue aggressive investments in Cloud Microservices and Blockchain solutions to streamline IT operations. There is no doubt financial services will increasingly adopt cloud, and…

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FXDD offices
October 17, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: FXDD parent company Nukkleus to have Don Fewer replace Jack Lahav on its Board of Directors

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Nukkleus Inc (OTCMKTS:NUKK), the parent company of Retail FX broker FXDD, will be appointing Donald P. Fewer as an independent director on its Board, in place of the departing Jack Lahav. Nukkleus is controlled by former Compagnie Financiere Tradition executive Emil Assentato. Mr. Assentato has an effective 80% interest in both FXDD…

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October 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX Optimisation with Baton Systems create new post-trade FX solution through NEX Infinity platform

NEX Group PLC (LON:NXG)'s post trade division NEX Optimisation announced today that Baton Systems, a high-speed payments infrastructure provider, has joined NEX Infinity as the first third party to provide its services through the platform. The news comes only a day after NEX Optimisation's "significant restructure" announcement. NEX Optimisation and Baton have been working in…

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October 17, 2017 BY admin

Match-Trade launches MT5 platform as it expands its B2B offering

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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Saxo Bank UK FCA
October 16, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Matteo Cassina out as Saxo Bank Head of Global Sales and UK office, Jeff Zorek named interim UK CEO

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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