The Supervisory Board of European Commodity Clearing AG (ECC) has announced today that it has appointed Jens Rick to the Management Board of the clearing house. Jens Rick will assume the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) of ECC effective from 1 November and will be responsible for the operation and development of ECC’s clearing…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has today announced that it has teamed up with global electronic broker Interactive Brokers Group (Nasdaq: IBKR). The broker has begun providing access to the Russian market for all its clients in the US and worldwide. Interactive Brokers' clients can now fund their account in 24 currencies and trade assets from a…
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CFH Clearing, TradeTech Group’s Liquidity Provider and Prime of Prime brokerage, has just announced that it has added news sentiment data tools and an enhanced multi-asset newsfeed to its platforms. Both newsfeed and data will be delivered through news technology company, Acuity. CFH clients can now access Acuity through its proprietary platforms, ClearPro and ClearWeb…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group has today announced that it achieved its highest quarterly Asia Pacific average daily volume (ADV) on record, with 1.2 million contracts traded during third-quarter of 2019. That's a 61% rise YoY and surpassing the previous quarterly record of 1.1 million contracts traded in second-quarter 2019. Latin America quarterly ADV was 152,000…
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The licensed European broker Just2Trade Online Ltd has just announced that it has launched a new service via the multi-asset MetaTrader 5 platform. Just2Trade now offers its private and institutional clients access to financial instruments traded on major global exchanges: US (NYSE, NASDAQ) Canada (TSX) UK (LSE) Germany (Xetra) France (Euronext) Russia (MOEX) Spain (BME)…
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The European investment firm and liquidity provider AAATrade has announced earlier today that it has just launched its new securities services offering access to over 80 exchanges and to more than 60,000 assets. All the assets are tradable through AAATrade’s collaboration with UBS Bank in Switzerland, which acts as AAATrade’s custodian and execution bank. For…
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Multi-asset brokerage based in Sydney and Hong Kong, Invast Global, has just announced its partnership with Cboe Global Markets. Invast Global is a provider of Prime Brokerage Services globally, allowing brokers, asset managers and hedge funds access to execution, clearing and custody services across a range of global markets in Equities, ETFs, Futures, Foreign Exchange…
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Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIRT) has announced that its subsidiaries have just closed their incremental $525 million senior secured first lien term loan. Virtu is a provider of financial services and products that leverages technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and provide execution services and data, analytics and connectivity products. The Term Loan bears…
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Georgian broker Trade Holding Ltd (VIPTRADE) has announced that its clients can now operate with MetaTrader 5 desktop as well as mobile and online platforms from any part of the world. VIPTRADE offers access to trading currency pairs, precious metals, indexes, oil and provides brokerage services since 2015. The broker’s activities are regulated by the…
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Digital Vega, a FX Options e-trading platform and provider of FX Options trading solutions, has just added three new executives to its ASIA and EMEA team. Simon Nursey will be Digital Vega's new Head of Asia. Prior to Digital Vega, Nursey has worked for Standard Chartered Bank and BNP Paribas. Asa Attwell joins from Nomura…
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