Vietnam’s first derivatives market and clearing house goes live in partnership with GMEX Group LeapRate

August 10, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Vietnam’s first derivatives market and clearing house goes live in partnership with GMEX Group

GMEX Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of GMEX Group, announced the go-live of the first Derivatives market and fully integrated central counterparty (CCP) clearing house in Vietnam. GMEX Technologies has delivered a state of the art multi-asset, multi-language exchange trading system and market surveillance solution with a real-time clearing and settlement system. The project, which…

August 10, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM posts decent Q2 results, healthy July FX volumes - and is in big trouble

Retail forex broker FXCM, and its parent company Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR) each posted their most recent results yesterday, with both entities reporting what we consider to be decent performance, especially given the difficult conditions under which the companies have been operating. FXCM posted July FX trading volumes of $197 billion, 12% down from June but…

August 09, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SIX Swiss Exchange and Nasdaq to develop distributed ledger technology

SIX Swiss Exchange and Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today have announced that Nasdaq, in collaboration with its technology partner Chain, will provide distributed ledger technology (DLT) for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for SIX’s OTC structured products business. The solution will integrate with several systems currently managed by SIX and utilize the DLT capabilities at the…

August 09, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Formax UK posts £700,000 loss ahead of FCA brokerage launch

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that the FCA regulated arm of China based online brokerage group Formax Group is getting set to make a large marketing push in the UK and Europe. To that end, the company's UK subsidiary Formax Prime Capital (UK) Limited has incurred a 2017 fiscal year (ended March 31) loss of £707,834, on…

August 09, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

INTL FCStone reports 3Q financial results, revenues up 13% YoY

Commodities and Forex broker INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ:INTL) today announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2017 third quarter ended June 30, 2017. The highlights include: Operating Revenues up 13%, to $197.6 million Net Income of $12.7 million EPS of $0.66 Sean M. O'Connor, CEO of INTL FCStone Inc., stated: Despite continued depressed volatility…

August 09, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

KCG Holdings reports steady trade volumes in July

KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) today released trade volumes for the month of June 2017. In Market Making, KCG averaged $28.7 billion dollar volume traded (same as in previous month of June), 9.1 billion shares traded, and 3.4 million trades per day in U.S. equities. In Global Execution Services: KCG Institutional Equities averaged 195.8 million…

August 09, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: GAIN Capital total bill for FXCM US client purchase: $6.96 million

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that the total amount paid by Forex.com parent company Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) for the US clients of FXCM was $6.96 million. Back in February, the FXCM operating unit of Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR) was forced into a quick fire-sale of its US operations, after the…

August 08, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FX broker IronFX raises $100 million from Middle East investors

Breaking Forex News... Cyprus based retail FX broker IronFX has announced that the company has arranged a $100 million investment from a major family office investment outfit. We understand that the family office is out of the Middle East, and that the investment will be made by the family office's regulated fund based in Singapore.…

August 08, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Swissquote shares hit 52-week high as 1H-2017 Revenues and Profits surge

Swiss online banking and brokerage leader Swissquote Group Holding SA (SWX:SQN) has announced its results for the first half of 2017, indicating record figures on both the top and bottom line. Revenues at Swissquote came in at a record CHF 90.5 million (USD $93 million) in the first six months of 2017, up 17% from first…

August 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Fiserv equipping financial institutions with cross-functional marketing analytics solution

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV) just announced that it is equipping financial institutions to better understand customers and identify marketing opportunities within their customer base through a new marketing analytics solution that is already being implemented by banks and credit unions. Integrator Advance™ offers multiple tools, including research-based segmentation, cross-sell intelligence, campaign management, and reporting, in…

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