Category: Forex

fxcm us assets gain capital
February 27, 2017 BY admin

Gain Capital completes transfer of FXCM's US clients to FOREX.com

GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP), the U.S. based provider of online trading services, announced that it has successfully migrated the former U.S. customers of FXCM Inc (NASDAQ: FXCM) to GAIN'S retail brand FOREX.com. Over the weekend, GAIN transferred over 47,000 accounts with total assets of approximately $142 million. To ensure that the migration was successful…

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February 27, 2017 BY admin

FX platform 360T hires Simon Jones as Chief Growth Officer

360T Group, Deutsche Börse Group’s powerhouse for FX and independent global provider of a multi-bank, multi-asset trading platform, continuous to invest in accelerating its strong growth path by making a high-caliber addition to its Management. Simon Jones (pictured above) has been appointed as Chief Growth Officer and will be a member of 360T’s Global Executive…

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INTL FCStone opens its know-risk platform to broader market
February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

INTL FCStone Financial launches Agency Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities trading

INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) just announced that the Broker-Dealer Rates Group of its wholly owned subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial Inc., has entered the U.S. agency commercial mortgage-backed (Agency CMBS) market. The Company also disclosed today that it has expanded its asset-back securities (ABS) trading to all investment grade categories. The launch of the Agency…

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tradition
February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Interdealer broker Tradition extends trade compression to Uncleared Margin in FX

Swiss interdealer broker Compagnie Financiere Tradition SA (SWX:CFT) announced that has delivered an initial margin optimization in FX, after extending its partnership with LMRKTS, a compression and analytics provider. Tradition and LMRKTS announced a strategic partnership in 2016 to handle execution and compression processing for G10 FX Forwards. Earlier this month, the two firms completed…

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February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Dow Jones acquires RiskAverter and bolsters third party risk business

Dow Jones Risk and Compliance, a provider of anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and sanctions compliance data solutions, has completed the acquisition of RiskAverter from U.S.-based Compliance Strategies International, LLC. RiskAverter’s innovative solution enables companies to automate risk “scoring” so they can quickly and effectively assess third parties in relation to anti-corruption and other regulatory compliance risk…

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DTCC - new additions to the Board
February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

DTCC completes blockchain repurchase test

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, just announced that has successfully completed testing of blockchain-based technology for the clearing and settlement of repurchase, or repo, agreement transactions, and will decide by June whether to deploy the new system, Reuters reported. DTCC, a utility that…

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February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CloudMargin and SmartDX collaborate to help derivatives market participants meet new variation margin rules

CloudMargin, the  creator of the world's first web-based collateral and margin management solution, and SmartDX from Smart Communications, the industry standard for automating trade and relationship document generation, collaboration and processing in the capital markets, just announced that have partnered to address the Daily Variation Margin (VM) Rule that goes into effect March 1 in…

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February 27, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

3 myths about owning a forex brokerage busted

Is owning a Forex brokerage beyond your reach? Perhaps not. Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate, explains. Are you a trader looking to trade up from your existing career? Are you a business person who recognises a strong potential business?  Well, it might be surprising to know that you too can be the proud and…

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February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nex Group's Traiana launches electronic management of confirmations and payments for equity swaps

Traiana, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which monitors pre-trade risk and automates post-trade processing of financial transactions, announces today that it has launched Swaps Centre, a suite of services which enable swaps providers to electronically manage payments and confirmations in equity swaps. By sending confirmations and uploading payment instructions in normalized formats to their entire…

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