Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) announced that Mr. Henri Bergstrom has joined The Exchange as a Market Development Advisor. Previously he was the Chairman of the Board of NASDAQ OMX Armenia Exchange and CSD and Product Manager for Nasdaq Post Trade Solutions. Further he has been assigned as an advisor to deliver post trade strategies…
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GreenKey Technologies, an AI-driven voice collaboration platform for the financial markets, announced today a global partnership with Red Box Recorders, an expert in voice recording technology and services, to create an integrated solution for embedded compliance recording within GreenKey's software-based trader collaboration offering. Red Box technology records voice conversations over soft client phones, turrets and…
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U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo today appointed Daniel Gorfine to serve as Director of LabCFTC and Chief Innovation Officer, effective immediately. Daniel is a well-respected leader whose expertise in market-enhancing FinTech will help the CFTC disrupt the status quo and change the way government interacts with our ever-innovating marketplace,"…
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TMX Group (TSX:X) today announced its financing activity on Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange for June 2017. Toronto Stock Exchange welcomed 15 new issuers in June 2017, compared with 15 in the previous month and nine in June 2016. The new listings included 11 exchange traded funds, one mining company, two consumer products…
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Offshore retail forex broker CIBfx has announced a Brand Ambassador partnership with legendary footballer Ian Rush, OBE. Ian Rush is Liverpool FC’s all time leading goal scorer, having scored a total of 346 goals in all competitions during his two spells at the club. At international level he made 73 appearances for the Wales national team and…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that former ADS Securities and Saxo Bank executive Valery Bartashevich has joined Malta based FX and multi asset prime broker Exante. Based in London, Mr. Bartashevich will have a senior business development role with Exante, covering mainly South Europe, Latin America, the UK, the MENA region, as well as South East Asia.…
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Giga Watt Token Launch announced today that they’ve sold over 14.4 million tokens in their crowdsale, enough to build an additional eight mining buildings. Along with the construction of eight new mining buildings, one of the three already-functioning mining centers will undergo expansions and renovations. The Washington state-based Giga Watt facility allows anyone to participate…
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Duco, the global provider of self-service data normalization and reconciliation services, today announced the official launch of Duco Cube Insight, a real-time analysis module for reconciliations that enables firms to cut down root cause investigation time around operational issues. The module was made available to Duco clients in the first quarter of 2017. Since then…
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Deutsche Börse Group announced that has entered into a strategic cooperation with Trumid, a financial technology company that provides an electronic trading network for corporate bonds. The Group will invest US$10 million for a minority stake as an add-on to Trumid’s previously disclosed US$28 million financing from earlier this year. Trumid will use the new…
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Australia financial regulator ASIC has issued a consultation paper, asking for feedback on new proposed rules requiring brokers to reconcile and report all retail client money held on a daily, monthly, and yearly basis. Some background... As we reported back in March, Australia’s parliament recently passed the Treasury Laws Amendment (Measures No 1) Bill 2016, known more…
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