Category: Forex

April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Clearstream’s new offering takes T2S cross-border

Deutsche Börse Group’s post-trade services provider Clearstream has announced that it has successfully migrated the Belgian, Dutch, French and Italian markets onto its new TARGET2-Securities (T2S) Investor-CSD model. It thereby brings the first real cross-border volume onto the ECB’s pan-European settlement platform. With this move, the vision of a harmonized settlement landscape for securities across…

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April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Vela's market data feed now available via BT Radianz Cloud

BT has just announced that SuperFeed, a fully-managed market data feed designed and operated by trading and market access technology provider Vela, can now be accessed via the secure financial markets cloud community BT Radianz Cloud. SuperFeed offers customers a single source for data feeds spanning 100 global venues including BME, Cboe, CME, CTA, Deutsche…

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April 19, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Masahiro Funada replaces Tomitaka Ishimura as CEO of GMO Z.com Trade UK

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that top-level management changes have taken place at FCA regulated Retail FX broker GMO-Z.com Trade UK Limited, the UK operating arm of Japanese financial group GMO Financial Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), the world's largest Retail Forex operation. We should note that the changes are part of an overall management shuffle within GMO,…

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April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

PPI complaints rise by 40% in FCA's 2Q 2017 report

Complaints about payment protection insurance (PPI) drove a 13% increase in the number of complaints made to financial services firms in the second half of 2017, according to figures published today by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). During the second half of 2017 a total of 3.76 million complaints were received, an increase of 427,032…

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April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group releases record trading volumes in Q1 2018

CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has published its operating metrics for the month of March. These show that Q1 2018 has been a record for CLS with the highest traded volumes submitted to the service ever, topping Q1 2013.    Average daily traded volume submitted…

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April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Chubb launches proprietary online Cyber Risk Index

Chubb, cyber risk assessment and underwriting company, has announced that it has launched its Chubb Cyber IndexSM, a new interactive platform that showcases nearly two decades worth of Chubb's proprietary commercial cyber claims data. The Index is designed to highlight a range of cyber threats based on an organization's industry and size. We're thrilled to…

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April 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Equiti Group receives online forex broker license in Kenya

Equiti Group, the parent company of prime brokerage provider Divisa Capital and Retail FX arm Equiti.com, has announced that it has become the first online forex broker licensee in Kenya through its local subsidiary, EGM Securities Limited. This is the first license to be issued under the new regulations, which brought the oversight of online…

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April 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

dxFeed to provide Nasdaq market data feed for HELDENTRADER targeting US market day traders

dxFeed, market data provider for the global financial industry, has announced a strategic partnership with Heldental Holding, one of the leading proprietary trading companies in German-speaking countries and the Benelux countries. dxFeed will deliver market data directly from Nasdaq exchange to the end-users of dxFeed HELDENTRADER terminals, ensuring lowest latency and highest-grade data quality. The…

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