Two days after the news that Joe Schenk will replace Peter Quick as Chairman of GAIN Capital Inc (NYSE:GCAP), the FX brokerage group has reported its operating metrics for the month of September 2017. After hitting a record $279.8 billion in August (up 32% over July), the institutional FX volumes were steady in September -…
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Oracle NetSuite, a provider of cloud-based financials / ERP, HR, Professional Services Automation (PSA) and omnichannel commerce software suites, today announced that Moss Adams LLP, the U.S. accounting, consulting and wealth management firm, has joined the NetSuite Solution Provider Program to address rising demand for cloud business management solutions. The move is the result of Moss Adams’…
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Transparency services provider undergoes rebrand to highlight expansion of services in existing and new industies and to align with other subsidiaries in the Cinnober Group Boat Services has revealed its new name: Simplitium. The new brand highlights Simplitium’s core values of Transparency, Integrity and Confidentiality. This year Simplitium celebrates its ten-year anniversary of providing MiFID…
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BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) just announced that has further strengthened it ETF and indexed fund team with the appointment of Chris Hofmann as Senior Sales Manager for German-speaking clients. She joined at the beginning of October. Based in Munich and reporting to Claus Hecher, Head of Development in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland,…
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Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announced it is launching Wednesday Weekly FX options (Wednesday options) due to customer demand and significant growth in existing Weekly FX options, which expire on Friday. Wednesday options will be available in premium quoted and volatility quoted European style options with a 2 p.m. CDT fix on…
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LeapRate Exclusive Interview... There are very few people anywhere who have been been following and analyzing FX markets longer than Marshall Gittler. And there are probably even fewer people who have the benefit of Marshall's wide perspective on the FX industry itself, from the vantage point of the buy side, sell side, Retail FX brokers, Europe,…
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FX affiliate firm Investoo Group has just announced its latest acquisition in the retail investment space. The acquisition of RoboAdvisors.com marks the company’s expansion into the Portfolio Management industry. Investoo Group CEO Adam Grunwerg commented: Our acquisition of this dynamic robo advisor comparison site represents a major turning point in our company as we expand…
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With 60 working days before the MiFID II implementation deadline, RSRCHXchange, the research aggregator and marketplace, announced that has launched its latest version of RSRCHX including mobile and desktop apps and a range of new research management functionality. In addition, the RSRCHX bot was successfully launched at the Symphony Innovate event in New York, on…
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Trading Room to provide analytics tools, real-time data and financial information to deliver a compelling teaching environment and world class research capabilities Thomson Reuters (TSE:TRI) announced that has partnered with the University of Western Australia (UWA) as key technology provider for the newly launched Rosemarie Nathanson Financial Markets Trading Room which will provide students and…
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Geneva based Retail Forex broker Dukascopy has just made an announcement that due to situation in Catalonia and related risk of price gaps has made a slight change to its Spain 35 index ESP.IDX/EUR. Dukascopy Group decided to reduce leverage on CFD of the Spain 35 index ESP.IDX/EUR to the level of 1:10 and limit…
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