Category: Forex

Cboe volumes
January 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe LIS hits new milestone of €20 billion traded since launch

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) today reported that Cboe Europe Equities traded more than €20 billion in notional value on Cboe LIS, its European large-in-scale block trading platform powered by BIDS technology, since it launched in December 2016. Additionally, December was another record month of volume for Cboe Europe Equities’ Periodic Auctions order book,…

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Nadex regulated binary options exchange
January 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nadex widens acceptable bid/ask spread used in currency expiration value calculation

On January 2, 2018 Nadex submitted to the Commission an emergency notice pursuant to Commission Rule 40.6(a), that on trade date Tuesday, January 2, 2018, the underlying GBP/USD cash market experienced a period of decreased activity at the open of the Nadex derivative contracts. The expiration value calculation process under ‘slow’ conditions would collect midpoints…

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January 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe launches new volatility product microsite for ETP investors

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) announced that it has launched a new microsite designed to educate and inform investors about exchange-traded volatility products (ETPs). Cboe is the home of the Cboe Volatility Index® (VIX® Index), which is considered by many to be the world's premier barometer of equity market volatility. The VIX Index is…

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FXSpotStream FX volumes
January 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream December FX volumes $19.8 billion ADV, 2017 up 7%

Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that December FX trading volumes came in at a fairly strong $19.8 billion ADV, making December one of FXSpotStream's best months of the year despite the usual holiday-related slowdown in the FX trading sector. For the year, FXSpotStream averaged $19.5 billion in daily volumes, up 7% over 2016's…

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January 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Intercontinental Exchange completes acquisition of Virtu BondPoint

Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIRT), a technology-enabled market maker and liquidity provider to the global financial markets, today announced the closing of the sale of the BondPoint business to Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) for a total purchase price of $400 million. Back in October 2017, Virtu shared it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Virtu’s fixed…

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January 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CBOE Hotspot partners with Celer Technologies to provide streaming forwards & NDF trading GUI

Celer Technologies, a provider of Foreign Exchange trading technology solutions to banks, brokers, buy-side, ECNs and trading venues just announced its partnership with Hotspot, a CBOE Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, and institutional FX trading platform. Celer Tech’s bespoke trading GUI allows customers to access Hotspot’s outright streaming deliverable forward and NDF liquidity. In May…

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