The NZX Ltd (NZE:NZX) announced the appointment of Graham Law as Chief Financial Officer, effective 27 November 2017. Graham Law is an experienced senior executive with almost 25 years’ experience in the financial and professional services sectors in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Law is currently Head of Finance at the Accident Compensation Corporation,…
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Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, has issued Q3 results indicating continued improved performance for the company, as XTB continues to recover from what was a very slow start to the year. XTB continued its quite unusual pattern of…
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Signal, a substantial shareholding and position limit monitoring and reporting solution from Advise Technologies, is now available on Ullink's NYFIX Portal. Advise Technologies, a provider of regulatory compliance solutions for investment managers, offers coverage for 89 jurisdictions and global exchanges through its Signal software platform. Signal users can compare their holdings to relevant jurisdictional and…
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Online trading and banking company Ally Financial Inc (NYSE: ALLY) has released third quarter financial and operating results, indicating steady if unspectacular growth in its business. Net financing revenue for Q3 of $1.08 billion was up 1% from $1.07 billion in Q2, while Pretax income of $395 million was up 5% from Q2's $376 million.…
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Amsterdam based pan-European online broker DEGIRO B.V. has released some of its financial and operating statistics for the third quarter and first nine months of 2017, indicating slowing growth at the company including its first "down" quarter. The broker, which was founded in 2013, has made waves across Europe and in particular in the UK…
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Abu Dhabi based global international financial services firm ADS Securities has announced that it has launched a new TV ad campaign promoting its OREX trading platform, which will star A-List Hollywood actor Adrien Brody. The short video (see below) features Adrien Brody driving a Ferrari, which the company stated was chosen to illustrate the high-level of…
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QuantHouse, the independent global company of end-to-end high performance market data and trading API based technologies, today announced that Horizon Software, the provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, has joined the qh API Ecosystem to benefit from global reach and end-to-end performance. This collaboration results in a unique offering, which will enable buy-side…
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Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) just announced that it has expanded its Connected Risk platform to include an Audit Management (AM) solution to help enable firms to better assess risks and increase the efficiency of the auditing process. The AM solution is designed to provide audit professionals with an efficient and actionable approach to serving business leaders,…
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Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIRT) the technology-enabled market maker and liquidity provider to the global financial markets, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Virtu’s fixed income trading venue, BondPoint, to Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE). The transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2018, and the closing is subject…
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Chicago-based R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), the oldest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States, announced today the appointment of Brad Giemza as Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer. Giemza will serve on RJO’s senior management team. Giemza has nearly two decades of experience in financial services risk, clearing and technology management.…
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