Geneva based Retail FX broker and bank Dukascopy has shared that its ChatBot allows full access to the Bank's services. In this manner the Bank has achieved its first stage of reconstitution around the Dukascopy Connect 911 messenger and is opening up for projects involving artificial intelligence. Dukascopy Bank's ChatBot is an ordinary chat between…
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UK FCA regulated global provider of FX and CFD brokerage services Tickmill continues its strong growth in key performance indicators with robust financial results for the first half of 2018. The Group’s consolidated net profit amounted to $14.97 million whereas the total trading volume came in at $624 billion, almost doubling last year’s first half…
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Australia based private equity manager CHAMP Private Equity has announced that its CHAMP IV Funds have entered into an agreement to exit its investment in Pepperstone, one of the largest Australia based Retail FX brokerage groups. CHAMP had first invested in Pepperstone in 2016. Going forward the business will be owned by Pepperstone’s founders, and its…
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The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has informed the public that it has added Maxence Delorme to the Enforcement Assistance Department (DICS). Maxence Delorme joined the AMF on 3 September 2018 as Director of the DICS and advisor to Marie-Hélène Tric, Chairman of the Enforcement Committee, having been Deputy Public Prosecutor and Head of the…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that Luxembourg based private label fund manager Axxion S.A. has built up a 5% ownership position in FCA regulated Retail CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS). The stake, totaling 5,808,270 Plus500 shares, are worth about £82.3 million (USD $107 million) and represent 5.1% of Plus500's outstanding shares. The move…
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NEX Regulatory Reporting, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which provides regulatory reporting services across global regimes, has announced today that it has launched a new solution for derivatives transaction and position reporting under ASIC’s (Australian Securities and Investments Commission) OTC derivatives trade reporting requirements. The ASIC solution expands NEX Regulatory Reporting’s global reporting coverage and…
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Vela, the independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has announced the successful rollout of the latest version of SMDS, its flagship ticker plant software, to all clients globally. This marks a significant milestone in Vela’s 2018 roadmap, delivering a number of key client-driven enhancements across the full Vela…
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The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has announced plans for the creation of a strategic technology roadmap for OTC derivative identifiers. The DSB is a fully automated generator of International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) for OTC derivatives. The DSB is the first numbering agency designed to operate on a global basis to meet the particular requirements…
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As financial firms rapidly increase their investment in public cloud to manage their financial data needs, a global survey of senior technologists and market data managers in the financial services sector found that security is no longer a top concern. A survey from the Financial & Risk business of information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) found…
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Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, has announced that ICE Data Services will offer an on-demand tick data and analytics service, utilizing OneMarketData’s OneTick platform. This service will be provided over the ICE Consolidated Feed, which delivers aggregated real-time data and content from…
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