Cboe Europe Equities reports record month for Cboe LIS LeapRate

February 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe Europe Equities reports record month for Cboe LIS

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…

February 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Eurex Clearing announces successful start of the year

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…

February 05, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Polish FX broker XTB sees Q4 Revenues steady at $23 million as CFDs overtake Forex

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,…

February 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Saxo Bank sells Privatbank to Alm for US$60 million

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…

February 05, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exness begins 2018 with record FX trading volumes, January at $334 billion

It certainly looks as if January 2018 is going to be a month to remember for leading institutional and retail FX trading venues. Following our initial trading volume reports for institutional eFX platforms which included record results at GTX, Cboe FX (Hotspot) and FXSpotStream, we begin our coverage of the Retail FX sector with FCA…

February 04, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FX Industry Week Review: LMAX-Betfair buyout, Jordan forex licenses, KVB raises HK$200M, and lots more…

In Forex Industry News this past week… How much did LMAX management pay Paddy Power Betfair PLC (LON:PPB) to buy out the latter's 31% stake in LMAX. And, where did they get the money from? Which FX brokers were awarded financial services licenses in Jordan? Which investors put HK$200 million into Hong Kong based Retail FX…

February 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Integrated Asset Management Corp. announces acquisition financing for Blackstone Industrial Services

Integrated Asset Management Corp. (TSE:IAM) announced the closing on January 30, 2018 of a $8,000,000 senior loan to Blackstone Industrial Services. The capital raised by Blackstone Industrial Services will be used to acquire Nuovo Parts, a specialty Italian parts reseller in North America. Blackstone Industrial Services is a Canadian-based equipment service firm focused on critical…

February 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Calypso hires Steve Tucker as new Chief Sales Officer

Calypso Technology Inc., a provider of cloud-enabled capital markets and investment management software and services, today announced that Steve Tucker has joined Calypso Technology as Chief Sales Officer and member of the Executive Committee. Based in the London office but with global coverage, Steve will oversee all Sales, Marketing, Presales and Sales Operations activity for…

February 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group’s strong January sees record FX trading volumes in NZD, Rupee, and E-Micro futures

Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) today announced that January 2018 average daily volume (ADV) reached 19 million contracts, up 18 percent from January 2017, and representing the second-highest monthly ADV ever. During January 2018, there were nine trading days above 20 million contracts, compared with 34 days in all of 2017, and eight in November…

February 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream has best ever month in January 2018, FX volumes $26.3 billion ADV

Continuing the string of strong and record FX trading volumes we've been seeing from leading retail and institutional eFX venues to start off 2018, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that January FX trading volumes came in at $26.3 billion ADV, making January 2018 FXSpotStream’s best month ever - and by a wide margin.…

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Cboe Europe Equities reports record month for Cboe LIS

Eurex Clearing announces successful start of the year

Polish FX broker XTB sees Q4 Revenues steady at $23 million as CFDs overtake Forex

Saxo Bank sells Privatbank to Alm for US$60 million

Exness begins 2018 with record FX trading volumes, January at $334 billion

FX Industry Week Review: LMAX-Betfair buyout, Jordan forex licenses, KVB raises HK$200M, and lots more…

Integrated Asset Management Corp. announces acquisition financing for Blackstone Industrial Services

Calypso hires Steve Tucker as new Chief Sales Officer

CME Group’s strong January sees record FX trading volumes in NZD, Rupee, and E-Micro futures

FXSpotStream has best ever month in January 2018, FX volumes $26.3 billion ADV

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