CME Group reaches ADV of 17 million contracts in September, up 6% MoM LeapRate

October 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group reaches ADV of 17 million contracts in September, up 6% MoM

Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announced that September 2017 average daily volume (ADV) reached 17 million contracts, up 13 percent compared with September 2016 and a rise of 6% MoM. CME Group September 2017 options volume averaged 3.6 million contracts per day, up 25 percent versus September 2016, with electronic options averaging…

DFSA launches Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform

October 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Mandiant has concluded forensic investigation of cybersecurity incident

Potentially impacted U.S. consumers increased by 2.5 million Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) announced today that the cybersecurity firm Mandiant has completed the forensic portion of its investigation of the cybersecurity incident disclosed on September 7 to finalize the consumers potentially impacted. I was advised Sunday that the analysis of the number of consumers potentially impacted…

October 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Pepperstone launches FX news and education site thefxlounge.com

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that leading Australia based Retail FX broker Pepperstone has launched a new forex news, analysis and educational resources website called The FX Lounge, at thefxlounge.com. Quietly launched in the Spring, Pepperstone has spent the past few months building up content on the site, and is now actively promoting it both…

Nigel Holmes Equiti Group Divisa Capital

October 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Divisa Capital parent Equiti Group adds Nigel Holmes as Global Head of Human Resources

Equiti Group, the parent company of prime brokerage provider Divisa Capital and retail arm Equiti Global Markets (Equiti.com) has appointed Nigel Holmes as Global Head of Human Resources. Nigel has an extensive 30 year international career in the financial services sector having worked in the major financial regions of Europe, Asia Pacific, the Americas and…

October 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FlexTRADER executes large block trade from Goldman Sachs using IOI functionality

Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade Systems has today announced the successful execution of a large block trade from an actionable Indication of Interest (IOI) sent by Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) within the FlexTRADER EMS. The trade was completed using FlexIOI - a new, customisable feature of FlexTRADER which allows users to trade on…

October 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Crypto currency copy trading platform Covesting.io launched, ICO underway

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that a new crypto currency copy trading company called Covesting.io has gone live, and is (already) trying to go public via an ICO, well before its prototype or full beta is available. To garner attention and credibility, the company's founders (more on them below) have issued a press release beginning…

Bitcoin astounds again – Testing $9,000, share up to 61% - What’s next?

October 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Berndale launches Bitcoin trading

ASIC regulated online broker Berndale Capital, an Australian based and market leading provider of forex trading services and technology, is pleased to announce the introduction of Bitcoin trading. Available to all clients, the launch of the BTC/USD pair grows the Berndale trading instrument portfolio to 85, enabling greater investment diversification. Customers can trade price speculation…

FXCM GLBR terminate management agreement

October 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM terminates Management Agreement with Global Brokerage Inc

Retail FX broker FXCM Group LLC has put out an interesting press release (see text below), stating that it has agreed to terminate its Management Agreement with parent company Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR). FXCM and GLBR became effectively separated when Leucadia National Corp (NYSE:LUK) took a direct equity stake in FXCM last year, and the two appointed…

October 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Chen Ben Nun joins Leverate to launch new professional services department Acxelr8

Trading platform and technology tools provider Leverate has announced the launch of a new professional services department, called Acxelr8. The department is going to be under the direction of Chen Ben Nun, who joins Leverate after stints in conversion and sales at Alpha Forex, UFX and Plus500 Ltd. (LON:PLUS). The company stated that Acxelr8 and was born…

October 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream sees record FX volumes in September, hires Tom San Pietro from Thomson Reuters as CTO

Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that it recorded the highest average daily volume as well as overall monthly volume since the service was founded nearly six years ago. The current month's volume exceeds the company's previous volume record set in November 2016, which included the daily volume high of USD $49 billion on US…

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CME Group reaches ADV of 17 million contracts in September, up 6% MoM

Mandiant has concluded forensic investigation of cybersecurity incident

Exclusive: Pepperstone launches FX news and education site thefxlounge.com

Divisa Capital parent Equiti Group adds Nigel Holmes as Global Head of Human Resources

FlexTRADER executes large block trade from Goldman Sachs using IOI functionality

Berndale launches Bitcoin trading

FXCM terminates Management Agreement with Global Brokerage Inc

Chen Ben Nun joins Leverate to launch new professional services department Acxelr8

FXSpotStream sees record FX volumes in September, hires Tom San Pietro from Thomson Reuters as CTO

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