Spain's financial regulator CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores) has issued its Activity Plan for 2017-2018. The plan has defined four strategic areas for the next two years, and 50 specific objectives for 2017. While the CNMV did not outline specific plans to target Forex and CFD trading (or Binary Options, for that matter), it…
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Copenhagen based multi asset broker Saxo Bank has just announced that it will close its office in Limassol, Cyprus. The office in Limassol has served as a hub for servicing clients in the CEE and MENA region. Clients will now be serviced from offices in Prague, Dubai and Copenhagen and will have access to the…
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Given the large response, the FCA will take more time than expected in finalizing the new rules.
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Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA), a provider of enterprise wide big data and finance analytics solutions for buy- and sell-side institutions and other financial firms, just announced the release of its core big data analytics platform ALA OneLogic. ALA OneLogic was developed to provide advanced big data analytics capabilities for financial markets firms requiring powerful mining,…
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Online broker-dealer and futures commission merchant TradeStation Group, Inc., a fully owned subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698), just announced new per-trade pricing for stocks, ETFs and options for all new customers and all existing customers who notify TradeStation they would like to switch to the new pricing. This new, simplified pricing model – with…
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CMC Markets will now become the second-largest stockbroker in Australia, Revenues to grow by A$40M.
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Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, today announced Trading Technologies now offers connectivity to Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) through its TT trading platform. With this new connection, commodity and currency derivatives traders can utilize TT’s robust functionality, including the TT Mobile applications for iOS and Android…
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Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade Systems has announced that Sydney-based Dalton Street Capital has deployed its FlexTRADER EMS (execution management system) to facilitate global cross asset trading of futures, equities and FX. Dalton Street Capital Pty Ltd is a Corporate Authorised Representatives of ASIC-licensed broker Prodigy Investment Partners Limited. According to Alan Sheen, Co-Founder…
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TradingScreen (TS), the electronic trading solutions provider, has announced the expansion of its European operations with the opening of a new office in Frankfurt, Germany. Financial services veteran, Michael Kuhlow, has recently joined as Director to lead the Frankfurt operations. Michael Kuhlow, equipped with 20 years of experience in financial services and awareness of regional…
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Issuer Direct Corporation (NYSE MKT: ISDR), the company behind the premier communications and compliance platform, and Wall Street Horizon, the corporate events surveillance company, just announced that have partnered to bring Wall Street Horizon's corporate events data to Investor Relations and Corporate Communications professionals via Issuer Direct's Platform id. We are increasingly seeing Investor Relations…
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