LCH ForexClear reduces notional outstanding by $4.5b through NDF clearing service LeapRate

November 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

LCH ForexClear reduces notional outstanding by $4.5b through NDF clearing service

ForexClear members have announced that, through the use of the service’s compression solution, they have reduced their notional outstanding by $4.5 billion, global clearing house LCH informed earlier today. ForexClear has seen demand for its NDF clearing service significantly increase since the introduction of the uncleared margin rules in September 2016. LeapRate reminds, that ForexClear service processed over $1…

November 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

TMX Group appoints West Corporation's Sanjay Kulkarni as Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Digital Solutions

TMX Group (TSE:X) has just announced the appointment of Sanjay Kulkarni as Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Digital Solutions, effective November 28, 2018. Mr. Kulkarni is an accomplished business and marketing executive with more than 18 years of experience in product development, product marketing, and commercial strategy. He joins TMX from West Corporation where…

November 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exclusive: IS Prime reports continued growth in 2018

LeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned that London based FX liquidity and prime brokerage services provider IS Prime has reported strong financials, with an increase in turnover year end 31 March 2018. Reported figures from the FCA regulated broker show a rise to £17.2 million year end 2018. The financials for IS Prime’s year end 2018 show…

Via Varejo concludes migration of shares to B3’s Novo Mercado

November 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Via Varejo's migration of shares to B3’s Novo Mercado concluded

Via Varejo, a company controlled by the GPA, operating the Casas Bahia, Pontofrio and Bartira brands, has announced that it has concluded the migration of its shares to the B3 Novo Mercado. Companies listed in this segment, which represents the highest level of corporate governance, can only have their capital stock composed of voting shares,…

November 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Tradays expands the economic calendar, adds Germany

MetaQuotes Software Corp. has just announced that Tradays has expanded the economic calendar geographically by adding Germany on top of the US, European Union, Japan, UK, Canada, Switzerland, China, Australia and New Zealand. Data on upcoming macroeconomic events is gathered from public sources in real time. Historical, current and forecast values, as well as importance…

Activity on Refinitiv's FX platforms in Asia reaches record highs

November 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Refinitiv enhances Thai Baht FX benchmarks

Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), has just informed the public that it is enhancing the WM/Reuters Thai Baht Spot FX Benchmarks with data sourced from Matching, Refinitiv’s anonymous central limit order book. This has allowed the Thai Baht (THB) and Thai Baht Offshore (TOF) benchmarks to become ‘trade’ currencies using the…

November 26, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Lodestar Ecosystems launches Change Monitor chatbot

Lodestar Ecosystems Limited, a supplier of intelligent chatbot software to the capital markets industry, has just informed the public about the launch of its Change Monitor. Dr Anthony Edwards, Chief Scientific Officer commented on the news: Basically, at a high level, the LodeBot (the intelligent chatbot from Lodestar) can now provide change monitors that monitor…

November 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Refinitiv expands data partnership with National University of Singapore

Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), has announced that it is expanding its partnership with the National University of Singapore to launch a new service which see’s the NUS Risk Management Institute – Credit Research Initiative (CRI) provide specialist credit risk and default data through Refinitiv’s flagship data and information platforms, Eikon…

November 21, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

LaunchByte hires Mahsa Noble as Global Director of Growth

LaunchByte, an execution focused investment firm and startup hub, has just announced that it has hired Mahsa Noble as its Global Director of Growth. Ms. Noble spent the first decade of her career directing start up projects from the ground up both in the US and abroad, facilitating in the concept, management, and execution phases.…

November 21, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Saxo Bank launches SaxoInvestor platform for investors in Denmark

Copenhagen based Retail FX broker Saxo Bank has just announced that it has launched SaxoInvestor, a new platform that gives the growing investor segment the opportunity to build long-term portfolios across stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, and SaxoSelect portfolios. The platform is initially launched in Denmark with international roll-out planned for the first quarter of…

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