Category: Forex

October 20, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bank BPS chooses Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX platform

Warsaw-based Bank Polskiej Spóldzielczosci SA (Bank BPS) announced that it has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Risk and OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting to provide an integrated risk and regulatory reporting solution following a competitive tender process. Bank BPS has chosen to use the OneSumX solution for static and dynamic projection analysis, liquidity reporting, interest rate…

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October 20, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exness presents partnership agreement with Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabéu

Exness Marketing Director, Igor Rudi, alongside director of Institutional Relations for Real Madrid, Emilio Butragueño, and first team players Benzema, Kroos, Vallejo and Achraf, presented the partnership agreement signed between the FCA and CySEC regulated retail forex broker Exness and the iconic football club just over two months ago. Another partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo was announced right after. The event, which took…

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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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