Retail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC today released its monthly execution report for February 2019. Highlights for trading of all instruments in February 2019 67.1% of orders were executed at price (up 8% MoM) 22.7% of orders were executed with positive slippage 10.2% of orders were executed with negative slippage Average execution speed of 20…
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Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA)’s shares declined today and dragged futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average lower. Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashed on Sunday en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi killing 157 people. Given the cause of the crash is still unknown, and this is the second such incident involving Boeing's new 737 Max 8…
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Payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) announced that following the initial success of its cooperation with Nayax Ltd, on 17 January 2019 the two companies had agreed to extend their acquiring contract up to 2024. The extension of the acquiring agreement was governed by the following terms: Nayax’s founding stockholders agreed…
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XTX Markets recently appointed Serge Harry as Chairman of the Board of XTX Markets SAS, while Geoffrey Damien was named as Managing Director, Head of France. XTX Markets SAS is the newly created French subsidiary of XTX Markets. Serge Harry has worked for over 30 years in the financial services industry and was a senior…
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If you are waiting for Samsung or Apple to get with cryptocurrencies and incorporate crypto wallets within their various smartphone sets, you now have an alternative that will achieve the same thing. Opera, a browser software company, announced that it is now testing its Opera Touch browser with built-in crypto wallet in the iOS operating…
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CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has published its operating metrics for the month of February 2019. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.73 trillion, down 3.3 percent from USD1.78 trillion in January 2019. Average daily traded volume submitted to CLS…
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AlgoTrader AG, a global provider of algorithmic trading systems, recently reported that its year over year revenue had grown by 170% in the first year following its seed financing round, which happened in early 2018. The firm also announced the hiring of Jakob Bosshard who has extensive experience as an executive in the financial services…
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LiquidityEdge, an electronic network for trading US Treasuries (UST), released its trading volumes data for February 2019, which set several record highs. Users of the platform traded more than USD 31 billion (single count) on 28 February 2019 through both off-the-runs and on-the-runs. The platform also set a new weekly record in February when USD…
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FCA regulated FX and CFDs broker ActivTrades has added Michael Lippa to its team as its new Chief Commercial Officer. Lippa, 56, will complement the management structure of the owner-led organisation. He will be responsible for the expansion of the European operations. Previous to this appointment Lippa was heading the German operations of Brokerhouse IG…
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Global derivatives trading firm enhances trading infrastructure with the launch of ThinkZero, specialist solution for algorithmic and automated financial traders Forex, CFDs and cryptocurrency derivatives trading broker ThinkMarkets has just announced the launch of its new offering that caters to the needs of algorithmic and automated traders. ThinkMarkets has recently extended its CFD product offering…
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