Category: Forex

Data intelligence firm Thasos adds Chris Metaxas to its team as CRO
September 25, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

TMX Group announces organizational changes

TMX Group (TSX:X) has announced leadership changes at two of its subsidiaries: London-based Trayport Limited (Trayport), provider of technology and software solutions for energy traders, brokers and exchanges and Shorcan Brokers Limited (Shorcan), Canada's premier inter-dealer fixed-income bond broker. Kevin Heffron, President of Trayport is leaving Trayport to pursue other opportunities. Over the past nine…

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Fixi plc website
September 25, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: FIXI plc adds Tom Tragett as Chief Market Analyst, David Freeman as Head of Retail FX

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated institutional FX broker FIXI plc has appointed Tom Tragett as Chief Market Analyst. FIXI is controlled by Goran Drapac, also the founder and shareholder of Australia based Retail FX broker AxiCorp, which operates the AxiTrader brand. Tom Tragett has been involved in the FX markets for nearly 40…

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NEX TriOptima simplifies compliance with the initial margin rules
September 25, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX TriOptima simplifies compliance with the initial margin rules

NEX TriOptima, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which lowers costs and mitigates risk in OTC derivatives markets, has announced that it can simplify compliance with the initial margin (IM) rules with its end-to-end solution that requires just one simple trade file. Approximately ten firms were brought in-scope in September 2018. However, thousands of buy-side participants…

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Cobalt names Darren Coote Managing Director
September 25, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cobalt names Darren Coote Managing Director

Cobalt, the foreign exchange (FX) post-trade processing network based on shared infrastructure and high performance technology, has informed that it has appointed FX industry veteran Darren Coote as managing director. Darren Coote has been working with Cobalt since the end of 2017 as a strategic advisor and will now take on responsibility for the day…

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September 25, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Integral appoints Gavin Bambury as Chief Technology Officer

Integral, the technology partner trusted by banks, brokers, and asset managers to help them outperform their competition in the foreign exchange market, has just announced the appointment of ex-ION Trading CEO Gavin Bambury as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He brings more than two decades of trading and technology experience to his role at Integral.…

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cmc markets offices
September 25, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

CMC Markets lowers guidance expecting 20% drop in Revenues

London based online FX, CFDs and spreadbetting broker CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX) has issued a Trading Update ahead of the close of the company's Fiscal 2019 second quarter at the end of September, indicating that it is forecasting a greater-than-expected drop in Revenues for the full year (which ends for CMC on March 31, 2019). CMC…

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CLS Group trading volumes
September 24, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group releases H1 2018 interim report

CLS Group (CLS), the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has just announced its Interim Financial Report, releasing record traded volumes in CLSSettlement, but reporting a loss for the six months to 30 June 2018 from a financial perspective. The complete message from Ken Harvey, David Puth and Trevor Suarez…

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