On 28 June 2017, the new Swiss Finance Museum will open its doors at Pfingstweidstrasse 110 The first of its kind in Switzerland, it combines historical exhibits with state-of-the-art multimedia installations. The museum is located in the new global head office of SIX, the operator of Swiss financial infrastructure. The completely redesigned exhibition introduces visitors…
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Trax, a subsidiary of MarketAxess Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MKTX) and a provider of regulatory reporting, trade matching and capital market data services, and Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) company, today announced plans to offer Trax Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) customers the choice to direct equity trade reports to the Bats APA in order to…
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Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that has upgraded the MetaTrader 5 for iOS build 1605 and has simplified the request to open a real account in MT5 iOS. The new MetaTrader 5 for iOS build 1605 provides the possibility to easily open preliminary brokerage accounts. When opening a new account: Select "Open a…
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Copenhagen based multi-asset broker Saxo Bank has released a fairly interesting document called Enhanced Disclosures, which provides insight into Broker Incentive, Broker stability, Client Leverage and Performance. Saxo Bank released the document as part of the company signing up formally to the FX Global Code of Conduct. Some of the interesting insights from Saxo Bank's disclosure document…
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After a fairly slow April, Copenhagen based multi-asset broker Saxo Bank has reported that it saw an overall 17% MoM increase in trading volumes during May, including a 14% rise in FX trading volumes. FX volumes came in at $235 billion for May, with total multi-asset volumes (including also Equities, Commodities and Fixed Income) totaling $331 billion for the month.…
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A month ago Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes released their economic calendar for fundamental market analysis. Now the company have prepared a new widget, that can be used to embed the economic calendar on a website or blog. The new service will help attract visitors, while providing traders the opportunity to instantly receive up-to-date information…
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BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has appointed Simeon Tsonev to the role of Currencies Portfolio Manager within its Emerging Markets Fixed Income team, further strengthening the team and enhancing its investment capabilities. In this newly-created role, Tsonev will be responsible for alpha-generating decisions within emerging market currencies. He will be based in London, reporting…
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LeapRate Exclusive... Further to our exclusive report last week about a number of pending changes at CySEC and FCA regulated retail forex broker FxPro, especially in the UK, LeapRate has learned that the company has gone live today with its new spread betting platform, FxPro Edge. Visitors with a UK IP address going to the…
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KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) today released trade volumes for the month of May 2017. In Market Making, KCG averaged $27.7 billion volume traded (up 5% from April's $26,343 billion), 8.7 billion shares traded, and 3.4 million trades per day in U.S. equities. In Global Execution Services: KCG Institutional Equities averaged 202.7 million U.S. equity…
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LeapRate Exclusive... FCA licensed spread betting, Forex and CFD brokers have seen an increasing amount of competition lately, mainly from foreign brokers who come to the UK to get "FCA regulated". These brokers do so in the hopes of landing a foothold in the very lucrative UK market, still the world's highest value market in…
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