AFEX, a non-bank providers of global payment and risk management solutions, has appointed Wayne Mitchell as General Manager EMEA. Mitchell’s appointment comes as AFEX extends its product set and local presence across Europe to support its growing client base of businesses and individuals. At the end of 2015, AFEX launched AFEX Offshore, its service for…
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Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) announced that is extending its instant messenger capabilities to the buy-side professionals who use its recently-acquired REDI execution management system, in a move designed to break down barriers to communication in financial markets. The integration of Eikon Messenger with the Thomson Reuters REDI system will provide improved pre-trade workflow for REDI clients…
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The Russian licensed Forex dealer VTB24 Forex announced that now offers traders to perform trading operations via MetaTrader 5 VTB24 Forex LLC is a subsidiary of VTB24 rendering services to individuals in the Foreх market. Last September VTB 24 Forex became the fourth broker (and first licensee in the banking sector) to receive the license…
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UK advertising watchdog Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a ruling against Learn to Trade Ltd., which promised riches in ads targeting retail forex traders who attend its educational trading seminars. Ad description A Facebook post for Learn to Trade Ltd, seen on November 22, 2016, which stated “Discover how to get your share of the…
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NEX Regulatory Reporting, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which provides regulatory reporting services across worldwide regulatory regimes, and Duco, the global provider of self-service data normalisation and reconciliation services, just announced that NEX Regulatory Reporting is to use Duco’s technology to provide MiFID II reconciliation to their clients. Reconciliation is a mandatory activity under MiFID…
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ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V. and Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, today announced ABN AMRO Clearing has contracted to make available the TT trading platform to ABN AMRO Clearing’s customers globally. This agreement furthers the long-standing partnership between Trading Technologies and ABN AMRO Clearing, which is also…
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The Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) put out a warning today stating "the number of dubious providers in the Austrian financial market remains high" and backed it up with some interesting statistics. Examples provided include unregistered high-frequency trading schemes and others providing unrealistic returns. First off, in 2016, the FMA reported they initiated a total…
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RSRCHXchange, the MiFID II research aggregator and marketplace for institutional research, today announced the expansion of their partnership with Substantive Research, curator of macroeconomic investment research. This latest integration phase means that Substantive ResearchMatch Curations are now integrated into the RSRCHX platform, enabling clients to seamlessly move from research curation to purchasing subscriptions and reports.…
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Japanese online trading company Monex Group Inc. (TYO:8698) has reported its monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in May 2017 and the results look promising this time. The number of Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs – the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) finally changed directions and went up 10% MoM…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that website Capital.com has gone live, after several months in testing mode. We had exclusively reported in mid April about the company's initial receipt of a CySEC CIF license (by parent company Capital Com SV Investments Ltd), in an interview with Capital.com CEO Kira Bondareva. Capital.com is clearly focusing on mobile trading,…
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