Swiss retail forex broker Dukascopy has announced that the range of tradable CFDs on single stocks at Dukascopy Bank and Dukascopy Europe has been extended. Most liquid stock CFDs from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland have been added to the platform. Currently the new instruments are available for…
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FX broker marketing boutique specialist firm 120ADVERTISING.com has announced the addition of Caroline Tabet to their team. Ms. Tabet joins Limassol, Cyprus based 120ADVERTISING as Product Marketing Manager. Caroline Tabet has more than 10 years of experience in international marketing and media from companies such as easyMarkets (former Easy Forex) where she led marketing for…
Read moreLondon Stock Exchange Group’s UnaVista today announced it has welcomed more than 20 firms to its Partner Programme in the first half of 2017. The Partner Programme was launched to bring together the world's leading financial services and regulatory technology firms to increase efficiency and reduce operational and regulatory risk for clients. The UnaVista Partner…
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When Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) bought CFH Group late last year for $120 million, we knew that they had big plans in store. Playtech (and its founder Teddy Sagi) does not do things small. Well today we are learning about at least one of the company's plans for one of the CFH units, to become a…
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GTX (Switzerland) GmbH, the Swiss institutional FX subsidiary of global forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), has announced that it has opened a new office in Zurich to support sales to money center and regional banks as well as fund managers. The new office is headed by Antonio (Toni) Fañanas, Director, Institutional Sales. Mr.…
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The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), the central bank of Ukraine and acting regulator has announced simplified rules governing trading in foreign currency and investment metals in the interbank FX market of Ukraine and the international FX market. First, the simplified rules shall apply to forward FX transactions. The NBU has allowed banks to perform…
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BNZ (Bank of New Zealand) one of New Zealand's largest banks announced today that it has become a Direct Clearing Member of LCH’s SwapClear interest rate swap clearing service – and has successfully cleared its first trade as a direct member. BNZ Head of Markets, Graeme Liddell said: Being the first New Zealand member of…
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Singapore-based Hedge Fund becomes early adopter of ULLINK’s new portfolio and performance management tool ULLINK, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, announced the successful go-live of Village Capital with ULLINK’s new post-trade solution, XTRAIN. The solution extends Village Capital’s use of ULLINK’s buy-side Execution Management System (EMS), XILIX,…
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John Griffith-Jones, Chairman of UK financial regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as well as of the spun-out payment systems regulator the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), has announced that he will leave both organisations at the end of his term of office, on March 31, 2018. No replacement for Mr. Griffith-Jones has yet been named. HM Treasury…
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It was very much a week of new beginnings in Forex Industry News, with the key stories appearing exclusively at LeapRate: Betfred into getting the Retail FX business by launching TradeFred, FxPro launching spread betting, and Saxo Bank expanding its Australia footprint in a deal with leading online equities broker OpenMarkets. See below for more…
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