CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market today published its operating metrics for the month of August 2017. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.581 trillion down 1 percent from USD1.596 trillion in July 2017. August 2016 July 2017 August 2017 Average daily traded…
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Cellxpert, a leading provider of affiliate marketing platforms, has announced the unveiling of a new product that will allow regulated brokers to fully manage and approve their affiliates’ sources of traffic. The new tools - Country Control, Domain Control, as well as the new feature Geo Rotation Group - are a complete and customizable solution designed for…
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The French regulator Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) just announced that has promoted Natasha Cazenave as Managing Director, Head of the Policy and International Affairs Directorate. She takes over from Guillaume Eliet, who left the AMF after twelve years in regulatory policy to join Euroclear. Natasha Cazenave joined the AMF in December 2010 as a senior policy…
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LCH, the global clearing house, announced today that its RepoClear service has introduced a new model to bring the benefits of clearing repos to the buy side. Insight Investment is the first asset manager to clear a trade, acting for a UK pension fund it manages, as a sponsored member, with NatWest Markets supporting Insight’s…
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Smartkarma, Asia’s provider of independent research, and ULLINK, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, have announced the immediate availability of the Smartkarma research platform via the NYFIX Portal. Targeting the growing need for transparent pricing and unconflicted research for the buy-side, driven by regulatory focus on unbundling research…
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Deloitte to become an implementer for Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Statutory Reporting software to help clients streamline statutory financial reporting process and increase automation Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) unveiled a new collaboration which will see Deloitte become an implementer for Thomson Reuters' ONESOURCE Statutory Reporting software to assist finance departments streamline financial reporting processes, helping them to…
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FX and financial affiliate Investoo Group just announced that it has acquired the social trading comparison site SocialTradingGuru.com for an undisclosed fee. Launched in 2012, SocialTradingGuru.com is one of the biggest social trading comparison sites and works with a number of partners including eToro, Ayondo and Tradeo. The deal includes all existing revenue share accounts. A…
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Otkritie Capital International Limited (OCIL) just announced that has joined the Derivatives Market as a Non-Resident Trading Member and plans to trade in SPIMEX Ural Crude Oil Futures (FOB Primorsk). The company’s membership allows OCIL to trade on its own account as well as on behalf of its clients, including foreign buyers of Russian crude…
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Boston-based Retail FX brokerage group BMFN (short for Boston Merchant Financial Ltd.) and Sweden-based FX trading technology solutions provider Fair Trading Technology (FTT) have announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership, with the aim of benefiting from each other’s core competencies. Paul Belogour, founder and director of BMFN says: While BMFN over the years…
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Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade Systems has announced today the appointment of Bruce Wolf as Head of FX Business Development. Based in the company’s headquarters in New York, Wolf will manage sales and business development for FlexTrade’s FX trading solutions for both the buy side and sell side markets. According to Wolf,…
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