The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets. More than a few times over the past year, I have come across instances where companies have thought that they were paying for legitimate ASIC licenses when, in reality, that was not the case. There appears to be several “light fingered”…
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NEX Group plc (LON:NXG) just announced its March market volumes. US Treasury was up 11% YoY, respectively 1% MoM to $172.0 bln. Numbers in US Repo also climbed up last month to $225.2bln up 11% from February's $202.0bln. European Repo (in EUR billions) didn't make a lot difference from February, but was up 17% YoY…
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KfW expands its business relationship with Eurex Clearing AG, starting central clearing of its Euro denominated interest rate swaps via Eurex Clearing in Frankfurt. Central clearing of derivatives transactions significantly increases the safety and stability of the financial system. Central Counterparties calculate risks in real-time and demand adequate collat-eral. Moreover, they guarantee settlement of transactions.…
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Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that MetaTrader 5 discovered a new market with considerable investment opportunities – Indonesia. Java Global Futures based in Jakarta has become the first broker in the country offering the multi-asset HFT platform to its traders. Java Global Futures is a member of the Indonesian Derivatives Clearing House, Indonesia…
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Wall Street Horizon, the corporate events surveillance expert, just announced that its complete Enchilada corporate event dataset is now available through Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR)’ IB Trader Workstation (TWS) platform. With this collaboration, traders and investors can now access Enchilada’s comprehensive forward-looking and historical corporate event data for 5,000 North American companies. The platform…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings made in the UK and Singapore that King & Shaxson Capital Limited has seen a significant drop in activity in Fiscal 2016. (The company has a June 30 year end). King & Shaxson is the parent company of FCA regulated retail and institutional Forex broker PhillipCapital UK.…
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Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, today announced the launch of new benchmark indices for ten additional European markets. Bats now offers real-time, high-quality and low-cost alternatives to those provided by the incumbent index providers across all major European markets. The new Bats Indices covering ten markets include: Bats Austria 20 Bats…
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U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo announced that Andrew B. Busch has been named the Commission’s first Chief Market Intelligence Officer. After spending 30 years in the financial services sector, Mr. Busch comes to the CFTC from the boutique economic research company he founded, Bering Productions Inc. (BPI), where he was…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm GMO Investment Management / GMO Funds PLC. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as…
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Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has reported that volumes on its system were fairly flat in March, for the third month in a row. Average daily volume at FXSpotStream came in at $18.8 billion in March - versus $18.7 billion in February and $18.9 billion in January. In context, however, FXSpotStream’s volumes were not as…
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