Category: Forex

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February 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters appoints Shawn Malhotra Vice President, Toronto Technology Centre

Information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) announced that Shawn Malhotra has been appointed Vice President of the new Thomson Reuters Toronto Technology Centre. In this role, Shawn will help drive the centre’s focus on emerging skills such as cognitive computing, visualization, user experience and cloud development. Located in Bremner Tower, the Toronto Technology Centre co-locates…

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February 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TRAFiX offering access to Bats Options BAM Auction

Bats Global Markets (Bats:BATS) and TRAFiX, a fintech company and innovator in next-generation Order and Execution Management Systems, today announced TRAFiX will offer access to the Bats Auction Mechanism (BAM), launched last year on the exchange group’s EDGX Options Exchange. BAM is an options auction process that provides Members with an opportunity for price improvement for…

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February 16, 2017 BY admin

EBS BrokerTec chooses Nasdaq for Forex market surveillance

Nasdaq, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) today announced that it has been competitively selected to deliver its SMARTS Market Surveillance technology to EBS BrokerTec, a NEX Group Plc (LON: NXG) business that provides electronic trading technology and services to the fixed income and Forex markets. SMARTS Market Surveillance will be integrated within the EBS and BrokerTec platforms to…

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February 16, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

BOJ Governor Kuroda warns low rates may start a new financial crisis

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said low profitability at financial institutions could start a new financial crisis, offering his strongest warning to date of the demerits of aggressive monetary easing pursued by major central banks, Business Insider reported earlier today. Mergers and consolidation may be among options for financial institutions to boost profitability, Kuroda…

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February 16, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ICBC Asia adopts Thomson Reuters FXall and Electronic Trading

After being the first Chinese bank to stream spot CNH price during Asian time zone, ICBC (Asia) is now the first Chinese bank to initiate a 24 hour price streaming on information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) platform FXall via Electronic Trading (ET). The move supports increasing demand from clients of ICBC (Asia) to price…

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February 16, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Institutional FX liquidity provider PositivaFX launching Retail Forex brokerage - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that CySEC regulated institutional FX firm PositivaFX (CY) Ltd is making preparations to launch a separate Retail Forex brokerage operation. PositivaFX, based in Limassol, Cyprus and founded in 2014 by CEO George Stylianou (pictured at right) and COO Kaiming Liu, has grown into a fairly successful institutional FX shop, serving mainly small to…

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February 16, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

triResolve Margin signs over 60 clients in anticipation of the variation margin rules

TriOptima, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which lowers costs and mitigates risk in OTC derivatives markets, just announced that over 60 clients have adopted its triResolve Margin service in anticipation of the new variation margin regulations effective 1 March 2017. These institutions include dealers, buy-side and corporate clients such as Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Sampo plc,…

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February 16, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats welcomes Global X Funds as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace

This week Bats Global Markets, Inc.(Bats: BATS) makes another entry to its Bats ETF Marketplace with Global X as a new issuer. The Global X Founder-Run Companies ETF (Bats: BOSS) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Solactive U.S. Founder-Run Companies Index. Laura Morrison, Senior Vice President, Global…

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