HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HSBC) has announced a withdrawal from the coal fired power sector, as part of its efforts to support a transition to a low-carbon economy. In 2011, HSBC decided to significantly restrict its support for new coal-fired power plants and effectively ceased financing them in 78 developed countries. It will now stop financing…
Read moreThe Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced the new appointment of Mr Chaly Mah and the re-appointment of five existing members to the MAS Board of Directors. In addition, Mr Quek Gim Pew has been appointed as a non-Board member of MAS’ Board Risk Committee. Mr Chaly Mah, Chairman of NetLink NBN Management Pte…
Read moreGiven the spike in volatility perceived by investors in early February, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has published an analysis of the main products concerned and their behaviour during this period. Broadly speaking, the extent of investment strategies based on volatility calls for a certain vigilance. Following the publication on February 2 of an…
Read moreVisible Alpha has just announced that it has received ISO 27001 certification from Schellman & Company, LLC, an ANAB and UKAS accredited Certification Body based in the United States for its information security management system (ISMS) supporting the Visible Alpha Services. ISO 27001 Certification published by the International Organization for Standardization is the leading international…
Read moreDeutsche 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…
Read moreGTX, the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), has just announced that Henry Durrant has joined GTX as Director, Liquidity Management, effective April 19, 2018. GTX’s liquidity management team optimizes liquidity for clients prior to them going live on the ECN and on an ongoing basis thereafter. Durrant joins…
Read moreBT 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…
Read moreLeapRate 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,…
Read moreComplaints 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…
Read moreCLS 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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