ASIC regulated Retail FX broker IC Markets has announced that it has added a range of Bond CFDs to its growing multi-asset offering. The addition of these fixed income products comes at a time when interest rates are normalising across the world’s major economies following years of record lows, providing IC Markets clients with new…
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Online gaming and financial trading systems provider Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) has issued a Trading Update on its second half 2017 results, ahead of an event for investors and analysts being held in Riga, Latvia on November 14, 2017. (Playtech did state that no new material information will be disclosed at the event). Playtech stated that Tradetech…
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Nasdaq Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) have signed a new agreement with Nasdaq continuing to deliver its trading technology via the Nasdaq Financial Framework. The platform has been instrumental in solidifying Bermuda’s status as a premier off-shore securities market for attracting international as well as domestic capital, and allowing for asset scalability…
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Continuing a pattern we have seen from other leading institutional FX venues, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that October trading volumes were down versus the previous month, although still fairly strong when compared with the rest of 2017 to date. Average daily FX volumes in October were $19.9 billion, versus a record September…
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FCA regulated Retail FX and CFD broker ICM Capital has announced that it is confirmed as the Official FX Trading Partner of football club Fulham FC, in a deal running until the end of the 2018-19 season. ICM stated that it will benefit from extensive brand presence at Craven Cottage, the home of Fulham Football Club…
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Forex and CFD educational service Elite CurrenSea (ECS) is launching ecs.LIVE - a new intense trading package for the retail trader with trading setups, live analysis, and regular chart updates. Chris Svorcik and Nenad Kerkez, are the driving forces behind ecs.LIVE, which seeks to bridge the gap between market theory and real live analysis and trading.…
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Euronext, the pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, announces the signing of the renewal of its agreement with LCH SA on the continued provision of derivatives and commodities clearing services for a period of 10 years. This follows the announcement of 8 August 2017. The new long-term agreement covers the clearing of financial and commodity derivatives…
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QuantHouse, the independent global provider of end-to-end high performance market data and trading through API based technologies, today announced the availability of QuantFEED and QuantLINK to Virtu Financial (NASDAQ:VIRT)’s disclosed Systematic Internaliser (SI) platform enabling clients to access Virtu’s liquidity under MiFID II’s transparent SI regime. Virtu Financial is one of the largest electronic market…
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Copenhagen based multi asset broker Saxo Bank has announced that Jesper Andreasen and Hans-Jørgen Terp Flyger will be joining the company, and setting up a new quant unit with the responsibility to drive and manage the development of new state-of-the-art risk tools. The new tools will support Saxo Bank’s internal risk functions and will also…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) today announced its exchange, Cboe Europe Equities (Cboe), formerly known as Bats Europe, had completed its operational preparations having successfully rolled out its final MiFID II exchange software release. Cboe Europe Equities is the largest stock exchange in Europe by value traded. The software release, deployed on Friday, 27…
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