Category: Forex

April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

LSEG’s UnaVista and TradeChannel collaborate on SFTR reporting solution

TradeChannel, part of Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS), has just announced that it has joined London Stock Exchange Group's UnaVista Partner Programme to support clients in meeting the requirements for the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR). UnaVista is a regulatory technology platform, while TradeChannel is a software company that assists the financial community with post-trade regulatory transaction…

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forex market update
April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ATFX Forex weekly market update: April 15, 2019

The following guest post is courtesy of ATFX Global Chief Market Strategist Alejandro Zambrano. As the new week is underway, metal prices have come under pressure, and gold prices look ready for a significant decline. Gold prices bottomed out in August 2018, and when crude oil prices and U.S. stock market indices peaked in October 2018,…

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April 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Did the Fed move Bitcoin?

Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for April 10, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Highlights include: Bitcoin Testing $5k: Bitcoin broke below its resistance at $5,350 and is testing the historically important figure…

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US oil index is prime
April 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

IAM Corp. acquires oil & gas production firm Lagasco Inc. for $22m

Canada’s alternative asset management company Integrated Asset Management Corp. (IAM) (TSX:IAM) announced that it has just closed a $22,000,000 senior secured term loan to Lagasco Inc. Lagasco is going to use IAM's provided funds to purchase a portfolio of producing oil & gas assets located in Southwestern Ontario from a Limited Partnership. LeapRate reminds that…

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April 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Arab Bank Ltd. teams up with Integral to launch a trading app

Integral has announced that Arab Bank (Switzerland) Ltd. has deployed a trading app built on the Integral BankFX Platform to expand mobile trading services to their institutional and corporate customers. Arab Bank is a trusted partner to established businesses with strong ties in the MENA region and is providing a powerful, end-to-end FX solution to its…

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FlexTrade adds Paul Beatty to team
April 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cobalt adds FinTech investment expert Stephen Wolff to its team

Cobalt, the foreign exchange (FX) infrastructure based on shared ledger and high performance technology, has just announced that it has appointed Stephen Wolff as a Strategic Advisor to support its global growth strategy. Wolff has served on the board of numerous financial market technology and infrastructure companies including R3, Tradeweb and ClearCourse Partnership. He also…

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CLS Group trading volumes
April 10, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group average daily traded volume up 8% MoM in March

CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has published its operating metrics for the month of March 2019. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.86 trillion up 8% from USD1.73 trillion in February 2019. CLS Group has recently reported its annual volumes and shared…

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