Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has announced the appointment of nine directors to Nasdaq Futures, Inc. Board. Directors will serve a one-year term. The names and titles of directors appointed to the Board of Nasdaq Futures, Inc. are highlighted below: Mark L. Alderman, Chairman, Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies Eric Aldous, Managing Director & Global Head of Futures,…
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In one of the more interesting Forex Industry News weeks of the year, we reported on angry clients taking employees of a Forex brokerage hostage in Shanghai - an episode which lasted a full five days. We also had more standard stuff - FX broker results and analysis, a major Forex Sports Sponsorship announced, management…
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Aksys Capital, a financial services institution, announced today the formation of a strategic partnership with Wallstreet Proptrade, Lebanon's first stock market research and proprietary equity trading academy. Through the partnership, Wallstreet Proptrade will help raise trading standards by educating and training traders/investors at Aksys Capital with an aim to enhance their knowledge of global equity…
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LeapRate Exclusive Interview... Just over a year ago LeapRate reported exclusively on China-focused B2B Forex broker GMI (short for Global Market Index Limited) hiring experienced FX industry executive Ashraf Ebid as CEO, with a mandate to build the company's FCA regulated operations in London. Well, we thought that now might be a good time to…
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Pragma, a multi-asset quantitative trading technology provider, announced that has enhanced Pragma360’s algorithmic suite to support triangulation of cross pair trading. The new functionality, created in response to client demand, allows traders to trade cross-pairs through triangulation to achieve better prices. By splitting the trade across more liquid currency pairs then triangulating the liquidity through…
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Leading Australia-based retail forex broker Pepperstone has announced the launch of a new Autochartist service to their clients, called Trade Now. In this launch Pepperstone becomes the world’s first brokerage company to adopt Autochartist’s new trading functionality that allows clients to place trades directly from Autochartist’s email research. Autochartist is a leading chart pattern recognition…
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Investment giant Leucadia National Corp. (NYSE:LUK) has issued its second quarter results report, giving a little more insight into the money still owed to it by the FXCM unit of Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR). According to Leucadia, they have nearly recovered the full amount of cash they invested in FXCM in January 2015, and still have $122.1 million…
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Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) just announced completed enhancements to its FXall and FX Trading desktops to ensure clients trading on Thomson Reuters Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) remain fully compliant with the new MiFID II execution requirements for FX derivatives that will take effect in January 2018. The enhancements enable Thomson Reuters to add MTF-support for…
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New York-based LiquidityBook, a fintech provider of trading and messaging solutions, has just announced the appointment of industry veteran Andrew Carroll as Chief Architect. Mr. Carroll, who will report to CTO Shawn Samuel, will be responsible for the technology architecture of the firm’s SaaS-based platform. He is LiquidityBook’s third major hire in as many months, joining…
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Along with its revenue report, FCA regulated online CFD brokerage house CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX) has announced today two additions to its board of directors. It is proposed that Clare Salmon and Paul Wainscott join the Board as a Non-Executive Directors, subject to FCA approval. Clare Salmon has held a broad variety of international leadership…
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