Category: Forex

October 20, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FIA launches FIA Training for industry professionals

FIA announced the launch of FIA Training this week, a program of learning tools that cover important topics like market conduct and compliance. Developed by industry professionals for industry professionals, FIA Training courses help educate traders, senior managers, analysts and programmers as well as sales, client services, operations and other team members. A key component…

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True Trade institutional fx
October 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Institutional FX platform True Trade goes live

LeapRate Exclusive... After some initial growing pains which included the departures of CEO Klaus Buhl and COO Ashraf Agha, LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated institutional FX provider True Trade (truetrademarkets.com) has gone live. Institutional clients have begun trading trading FX on (Phase 1) of True Trade’s new proprietary execution platform. True Trade provides clients with…

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October 19, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cobalt selects Solace for data delivery on FX post-trade processing network

FX industry experts leveraging blockchain-inspired distributed ledger technology to cut cost and risk for FX market participants Solace, the provider of open data movement technology, announced today that Cobalt, which aims to reduce the cost, risk and complexity of FX post-trade processing, is using Solace to facilitate the event-driven flow of information. By harnessing the…

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October 19, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Torstone Technology goes live with Asian capital markets and investment group CLSA

Torstone Technology, a global provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announced that the CLSA, an Asian capital markets and investment group, has signed a multi-year deal to use Inferno and is now live with the solution, which will bring greater efficiencies to its post-trade processes. CLSA’s Japan operations will deploy Inferno to improve…

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October 19, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group and JPX to launch Yen TOPIX futures trading

Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) and Japan Exchange Group (JPX), Asia's comprehensive exchange group, today announced the launch of Japanese Yen-denominated Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) futures contracts to begin trading on CME Globex by Q1 2018, pending all relevant regulatory review periods. This new financially-settled TOPIX futures contract will be listed with and…

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Securities and Exchange Commission proposes Transaction Fee Pilot for NMS Stocks
October 19, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SEC names Brett Redfearn as Director of the Division of Trading and Markets

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Brett Redfearn has been named Director of the agency's Division of Trading and Markets. The SEC's Division of Trading and Markets establishes and maintains standards for fair, orderly, and efficient markets. The division oversees the major securities market participants and infrastructure including, among others, broker-dealers, self-regulatory organizations…

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LCH non-deliverable interest rate swaps
October 19, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

LCH clears first swaps referencing SARON

Multi asset global clearing house LCH announced that it is now clearing Swiss Franc (CHF) interest rate swaps referencing SARON, the Swiss average overnight rate. The move comes ahead of the migration of CHF reference interest rates from TOIS to SARON, scheduled for 29 December 2017. Basler Kantonalbank, Credit Suisse and Zürcher Kantonalbank were among…

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Daniel Maguire LCH
October 18, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

LCH promotes Daniel Maguire to CEO, replacing Suneel Bakhshi

Multi asset global clearing house LCH has announced that Daniel Maguire (pictured above) has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of LCH Group, with immediate effect. The appointment follows Suneel Bakhshi’s decision, earlier this summer, to step down from his role as Chief Executive Officer of LCH Group after four years in the role. The…

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October 18, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Dow Jones partners with Curation Corporation to deliver “disruption” monitoring

Dow Jones has announced a new partnership with Curation Corporation, a risk monitoring and content specialist, offering curated news briefings that provide customers with timely insights on peripheral risks, emerging disruptive trends and new business opportunities. Peripheral risks are typically found outside the parameters of traditional risk monitoring, but may have a dramatic and substantial…

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ctrader fx cfd platform
October 18, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

cTrader integrates with Playtech's TradeTech Alpha for multi asset liquidity

Spotware Systems, the developer of the popular cTrader trading platform has announced a new integration with leading FCA regulated institutional multi asset liquidity provider TradeTech Alpha. TradeTech Alpha was created by the $150 million acquisition of FX and CFD market maker and B2B liquidity provider Alpha Capital Markets by Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC), which closed earlier this…

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