One of the more interesting traditions in the forex world as we head toward the holiday season and year-end is Saxo Bank’s annual “Outrageous Predictions”. Not meant to be a real look into the crystal ball but rather food for thought, Saxo Bank takes a look at some wacky but still plausible scenarios for traders…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) today declared its annual variable dividend, amounting to $3.50 per share. The dividend is payable January 15, 2018, to shareholders of record on December 28, 2017. When CME Group adopted its annual variable dividend structure in February 2012, the intention was to determine the excess cash available at the end…
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Susan Swart, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Chief Information Officer and Director of its Information Technology Department (ITD), has decided to leave the Fund in early 2018 for personal reasons. Ms. Swart joined the IMF in June 2012, following a distinguished career at the U.S. State Department. Susan brought with her the expertise and international…
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After seeing a fairly slow start to the fall trading season, retail forex broker FXCM has posted fairly strong FX trading volume metrics for November. FXCM volumes were $218 billion in November, up 14% from $192 billion in October. Average customer trading volume per day of $9.9 billion in November was also 14% higher than…
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LCH, a leading global clearing house majority owned by London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LON:LSE), has announced that it has extended its SwapClear service to offer clearing of Australian Dollar BBSW vs AONIA overnight basis swaps (AUD BOBs). With SwapClear clearing approximately 85% of the the AUD interest rate derivatives market today, this addition will…
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Quantitative Brokers, an independent global provider of advanced agency algorithms and data-driven analytics to clients in the Futures and US Cash Treasury markets, has appointed Ralf Roth as Chief Executive Officer. The company also named Thomas Ascher as Executive Chairman. Ralf Roth brings a wealth of experience to Quantitative Brokers, recently serving as Equities Division CTO…
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The Bank of Russia and the Seychelles Financial Services Authority signed a Memorandum of Understanding on November 29th, 2017. The key areas of cooperation envisaged in the Memorandum are the following: assistance in detection and combating unlawful use of insider information and market manipulation, supervision and monitoring of compliance with applicable legislation in the financial…
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CloudMargin, the creator of the world's first web-based collateral and margin management solution, announced that Martin Adams has joined the firm's senior leadership team as Head of Client Operations. Adams is a 26-year veteran of derivatives operations, with extensive experience in over-the-counter (OTC) and listed derivatives, as well as fixed income and foreign exchange (FX)…
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The European Energy Exchange (EEX), the European energy exchange, and EQS Group, an international technology provider for investor relations, corporate communications, and compliance, will support future participants in the CO2 market with their reporting obligations pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR). As of January 3, 2018, the provisions of the Market Abuse Regulation…
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Polish financial supervision authority commission Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego (KNF) issued directives yesterday to the country's brokerage houses regarding dividend policy. The KNF recommended that the dividend in 2018 should only be paid by brokerage houses which meet the following criteria in aggregate: A. dividend in the amount not higher than 75% of the net profit for…
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