CME Group Inc (NASDAQ: CME) the leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it reached an all-time open interest record of 129 million contracts on June 14, 2017, surpassing the previous open interest record of 125.7 million contracts reached on May 11, 2017. June 14 also represented the highest-volume trading day in 2017 to…
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Announced this week, we learned that clients of OANDA, the global forex brokerage provider can now trade directly from the TradingView website utilizing their innovative charts. TradingView is a social network for traders and investors. Under the agreement, clients can deploy TradingView's customisable charts and technical analysis, while continuing to access OANDA's execution engine, risk…
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CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market today published its operating metrics for the month of May 2017. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.55 trillion up 2.0% from USD1.52 trillion in April 2017. May 2016 April 2017 May 2017 Average daily traded volume…
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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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