STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, today announced that the iSTOXX Global Diversity Impact Select 30 Index and the iSTOXX Europe Diversity Impact Select 30 Index were licensed to Goldman Sachs as an underlying for the issuance of structured products. We…
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Will ESMA change its mind? While all formal indications to date indicate that ESMA plans to carry through with its new rules governing online trading - including a 30x leverage cap on CFDs - insiders within ESMA have admitted that the pan-European regulator has seen a virtual deluge of responses to its proposals, numbering in…
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CySEC, Belize and South Africa licensed Retail FX broker Forextime, which also goes by the shortened moniker FXTM, has announced on a new website forextime.co.uk (full text below) that it has received a license from the FCA for a new UK-based subsidiary Forextime UK Limited. A check of the FCA's registry reveals that Forextime UK…
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RoboForex, an international financial broker, just announced that it is expanding the list of cryptocurrencies available for trading via MT4 and MT5 platforms. Apart from Bitcoin and Ethereum, the Company’s clients will have an opportunity to trade Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Litecoin, and Ripple. New instruments are already available for trading. RoboForex continues expanding access to…
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Nasdaq Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Palestine Exchange (PEX) annouced that they have signed a new market technology agreement for Nasdaq to deliver new matching engine technology via the Nasdaq Financial Framework architecture to Palestine’s stock exchange. PEX, which will also continue to use Nasdaq’s SMARTS surveillance technology for monitoring its market, will leverage the modular functionality…
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ELITE, London Stock Exchange Group’s international business support and capital raising programme for high-growth companies, today announced that it has partnered with the Small and Medium Enterprises Authority in Saudi Arabia (Monhsa’at) to support the launch of ELITE in Saudi Arabia. Twenty ambitious Saudi small and medium sized companies (SMEs) have been unveiled today as…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) today announced volume and highlights for Cboe Europe Equities for January 2018, summarising the first month of equities trading under MiFID II. January highlights include the following: Cboe Periodic Auctions sees significant uptake: The Cboe Periodic Auctions book reported a record month of volume trading more than €6.5 billion…
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Eurex Clearing, a part of Deutsche Börse Group, noted a strong increase in demand for its OTC clearing services. In January, the Average Daily Volume cleared in the OTC interest rate segment increased by factor seven to 35 billion Euro from 5 billion Euro in 2017. We are very pleased that our partnership program is…
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Continuing its recovery under new management which has been sustained throughout 2017, Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, has issued preliminary results for Q4-2017 as well as for the full year, indicating continued improved performance for the company,…
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Copenhagen based Saxo Bank's new ownership group is moving rapidly to reshape the company, with the latest move being a just-announced sale of one of its major units for USD $60 million, alongside a new partnership with the buyer. Saxo Bank announced this morning the sale of subsidiary Saxo Privatbank, a fully licensed retail bank with…
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