Category: Forex

AML compliance
March 28, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Elixirr and Kaizen to bring transaction reporting compliance to a new level

Elixirr, the challenger consultancy, and Kaizen, the regulatory reporting assurance experts, have just announced a new partnership, which will deliver a complete end-to-end regulatory reporting remediation service for financial institutions. The two firms will collaboratively offer clients greatly-improved assurance testing, governance and support on their trade and transaction reporting remediation projects. This is a significant…

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Plus500 with a positive reaction to ESMA’s leverage restrictions
March 28, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Plus500 with a positive reaction to ESMA’s leverage restrictions

Shortly after yesterday's IG Group (LON:IGG) reaction, retail FX and CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has also released an update following the announcements from ESMA and the FCA in which they outlined the regulatory changes ESMA proposes to implement in the coming weeks. The principal changes are: leverage limits on the opening of a position by a…

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Options offers real-time multicast gap detection for US market data feeds
March 28, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Options offers real-time multicast gap detection for US market data feeds

Options, the provider of global market data and colocation services for trading firms, has today announced the deployment of real-time multicast gap detection as part of its Managed Colocation offering. The TradeVision platform from Ixia, a Keysight Business, will initially be integrated with Options Managed Colocation infrastructure across the US, with expansion across European venues…

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CLS Group trading volumes
March 28, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group releases record trading volumes in February

CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has published its operating metrics for the month of February. February was the largest month ever for trading activity passed through the CLS settlement service. While this is clearly partly due to the market volatility seen at the start of…

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big xyt Liquidity Cockpit delivers insight on systematic internalisers
March 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

big xyt delivers enhanced transparency on SI volumes under MiFID II

big xyt, the independent provider of high-volume, smart data and analytics capabilities, has announced the addition of enhanced functionality on its Liquidity Cockpit dashboard, providing greater transparency on over-the-counter (OTC) equities activity, including Systematic Internaliser (SI) transactions. The latest functionality, called ‘Liquidity Type’, has been developed in response to a strong desire among practitioners for…

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Autochartist's market analysis tool now fully operational within TraderEvolution
March 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Autochartist acquires Barry Ubsdell's forex news trading service Delkos Research

Retail FX trading tools provider Autochartist has announced that it has concluded the acquisition of a controlling stake in Delkos Research - a company providing forecasts and content for Futures and Forex brokers based around macro-economic news events. This is the second acquisition that Autochartist has concluded in 2018. Delkos’s News Events Trading Services (NETS) allows…

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