LeapRate Exclusive... Bel air, s.r.o., the company behind the social trading network for forex traders FX Junction, just announced a public release of their API Solutions. These solutions allow third party developers to integrate FX Junction’s core services into their own applications using simple API calls. Namely, 2 APIs are offered: Copy API - which allows third…
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AlgoTrader AG just informed that Phillip Securities Japan Ltd., a Tokyo-based broker with membership in TSE, OSE and TOCOM has integrated the AlgoTrader algorithmic trading solution for trading index futures with its newly launched futures dark pool. Phillip Securities consulted AlgoTrader to meet their desire for custom execution algos for Japanese futures trading on the…
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Software solutions platform Polymath announced that it has just added Sumsub to its service provider marketplace. Sumsub is a trusted provider of compliance as a service, with years of legal experience that assures full compliance to STO regulations, including routine KYC/AML checks for individual and corporate clients together with accredited investor checks. Sumsub is a…
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The following article is courtesy of FlexTrade's Ivy Schmerken. With the uptick in Asian currency trading and the growth of electronic trading, Singapore’s regulator is working with the financial industry to build an FX trading hub and expand FX market infrastructure, a move to improve liquidity and price discovery during Asian trading hours. The Monetary…
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The following article was exclusively prepared for LeapRate by IS Prime. LeapRate Exclusive... Imagine the situation… you are sitting on the trading desk reviewing activity for the day and you come across a pocket of traders who were able to arbitrage your feed systematically. It has been a few hours since the transactions took place.…
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FlexTrade, the global cross-asset execution and order management system, has just informed its clients that it has expanded staff levels at its office in Paris. The company has appointed Rushani Caiola as Fixed Income Account Manager to serve the company’s growing number of fixed income clients. Prior to FlexTrade, she was working for nearly 4…
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Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has also recently announced its revenue for the month of May 2019. Total volume last month was reported to be $802,275. With 23 trading days in May, average daily volume was up 9.1% MoM to $34,882. The complete results can be seen in the table below: *Volumes in USD millions,…
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Itiviti, financial institutions tech and service provider, just announced that DZ PRIVATBANK, the cooperative private bank of DZ BANK Group, has successfully installed Itiviti’s multi-asset OMS. DZ PRIVATBANK will now be able to support an increase in customer demand relating to performance, speed and connectivity to different markets and brokers. Additionally, regulations such as MIFID…
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Electronic US Treasuries (UST) trading venue, LiquidityEdge, has just released a record trading volumes for the month of May 2019 with average daily volumes (ADV) rising to 16.35bn (single count) across both on-the-runs and off-the-runs. The company has already set several record highs back in February 2019. Bryan Farrell, Head of Sales at LiquidityEdge said: Sustaining…
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has today announced new partnerships with Catena Technologies, Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS) and Finastra. The new partnerships aim to further support DTCC's mutual clients who will leverage DTCC’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) service in support of forthcoming Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) obligations, which are anticipated to take…
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