Hanweck announces addition of Nasdaq’s Jean-Jacques Louis to Board of Directors LeapRate

March 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hanweck announces addition of Nasdaq’s Jean-Jacques Louis to Board of Directors

Hanweck, a provider of real-time risk analytics on global derivatives markets, just announced that Jean-Jacques Louis, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Nasdaq, has joined its Board of Directors. At Nasdaq, Mr. Louis is responsible for the strategic and financial analyses and execution of all corporate and business unit investments. Nasdaq is a strategic…

ESMA Chairman targets asset managers for adequacy of liquidity concerns

March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Alpha and Gold-i partner to offer MT4 / MT5 multi asset bridge and liquidity

Trading solutions and liquidity provider Alpha Capital Markets, and MetaTrader technology solutions firm Gold-i, have announced a joint effort to provide Alpha's liquidity solutions to MT4 and MT5 brokers, using Gold-i's bridge gateway. Gold-i launched its MT5 gateway last November. We understand that Alpha and Gold-i are currently finalizing implementation on their first joint client.…

March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM (non-US) volumes drop 21% in February to $201 billion

Retail Forex broker FXCM has announced its volume results for February, the last month for which FXCM had both US and non-US volumes to report. FXCM sold its US client base to rival Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) and its Forex.com retail FX unit at the end of February, after the company and CEO Drew Niv…

Tradair launches white label trading technology

March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Gabriela Liber joins TradAir from TraderTools as Director of Liquidity Management

eFX trading technology solutions provider TradAir has announced that Gabriela Liber has joined the company as Director of Liquidity Management. Gabriela Liber was most recently Director of Sales at TraderTools. Prior to joining TraderTools in 2013 she was VP of eFX Sales at Credit Suisse. She also has worked in business development at Thomson Reuters and in…

March 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Saxo Bank changes volumes reporting methodology adding multi asset classes

Retail Forex broker Saxo Bank has changed the way it reports its monthly trading volumes, dividing out figures between four major asset classes - Commodities, Equities, Fixed Income, and of course FX. The Copenhagen-based broker has been actively promoting to both retail and institutional clients the multi-asset nature of its offering, and this latest added…

March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Dow Jones launches Factiva App on the Salesforce AppExchange

Dow Jones today announced it has launched the Factiva app on the Salesforce AppExchange, empowering businesses to connect with their customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways. The Factiva app offers customers access to content from 33,000 premium news sources and over 20 million public and private company profiles. Factiva’s set of sources is…

March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

KCG trade volumes are steady in February

KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) today released trade volumes for the month of February 2017. In Market Making, KCG averaged $28.0 billion dollar volume traded (a minor decrease compared to January), 10.9 billion shares traded, and 3.4 million trades per day in U.S. equities. In Global Execution Services: KCG Institutional Equities averaged 217.0 million U.S.…

March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

PsyQuation completes first full integration with Australia forex broker GO Markets

Behavioral profiling based trading tool provider PsyQuation just announced that starts to offer the functionality of its robo trading coach to GO Markets clients via the brokers client portal. CEO of PsyQuation Michael Berman commented: GO Markets were focused on simplifying the sign-up process, allowing their clients to opt-in to Psyquation through their new online portal.…

AFM imposes an order for incremental penalty payments on Miscanthus Green Power B.V.

March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Netherlands AFM suspends trading in New Sources Energy NV

The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) just announced that it has given an instruction to suspend trading in New Sources Energy NV. Financial instrument: Shares ISIN code: NL0009822014 The reason for suspension has not been announced yet, but trading in New Sources Energy NV will be forbidden with immediate effect, as from 14th…

March 13, 2017 BY admin

MD Consulting founder on specializing in FX and FinTech marketing

We recently spoke with Martina Doherty, owner, and founder of MD Consulting, a London-based marketing services agency, providing financial institutions and FinTech companies in capital markets with PR and communication services. The majority of the firm's clients are institutional forex companies. She set up the business just over 7 years ago to share her knowledge…

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