Category: Forex

April 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe Global Markets appoints Executive Vice Presidents in newly formed Markets Division

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has announced the appointments of Andy Lowenthal and Bryan Harkins as Executive Vice Presidents and co-heads of the firm’s newly formed Markets Division. The new Markets Division unifies product, sales, business development and account coverage personnel across the company’s U.S. equities and options, ETP listings, global derivatives and FX…

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April 05, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM FX trading volumes down 12% in March to $210 billion

Retail FX broker FXCM continued its strong start to 2018, although March wasn't quite as good as January or February. FXCM reported client trading volumes of $210 billion for March 2018, 12% below February's $239 billion. Keeping in mind, however, that January and February were FXCM's best months since the February 2017 crisis which saw FXCM exit the…

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April 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Abel Noser Holdings to acquire Zeno Consulting Group

Abel Noser Holdings, LLC has announced that it is acquiring Zeno Consulting Group, LLC in a transaction pairing two providers of best execution analysis, regulatory and trade surveillance services. Zeno brings with it over three decades of experience in helping asset owners manage and control equity, fixed income and FX trading costs. We are thrilled…

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April 05, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Genesis Vision launches cooperation with international broker Just2Trade

Starting on April 1, the international broker Just2Trade (branded in Russia as Finam) began its cooperation with Genesis Vision, a platform for the private trust management based on blockchain and smart contracts. This decision opens major opportunities for the participants in this cooperation. Genesis Vision users will gain access to cutting-edge trading platforms and a…

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April 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS and NEX expand triReduce CLS FX service to third parties

CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, and NEX (LON:NXG), a financial technology company at the centre of the global markets, announced today that they are extending the triReduce CLS FX service to third parties. Banks, funds, non-bank financial institutions and multinational corporations that settle in CLSSettlement through a settlement member…

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April 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ClickIPO and TradeStation to provide IPO access

TradeStation Securities, Inc., a fully owned subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698), and ClickIPO Securities, LLC have just announced that are making the ClickIPO platform available to eligible TradeStation clients so they may gain access to ClickIPO’s marketplace of initial public offerings, secondary offerings and follow-on offerings (collectively, “Public Offerings”). The ClickIPO app for iOS…

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April 04, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Des Grech replaces Stephen Williams as CEO of Playtech's TradeTech Alpha

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that online gaming and financial trading company Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) is continuing to reshape the management team at its financial division TradeTech Group. Most recently, Playtech has replaced the CEO at its FCA regulated arm TradeTech Alpha Limited. Leaving the company is Stephen Williams, CEO of TradeTech Alpha since the company's…

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April 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Trading Technologies extends TT Platform into Tokyo

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, has announced the availability of execution and client connectivity services in Tokyo via its TT platform. This move strengthens TT’s presence in the Asia/Pacific region, providing users there with increased accessibility to low-latency execution through TT’s worldwide network of colocated data centers.…

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