FCA regulated Retail FX and CFD broker ICM Capital has announced that it is confirmed as the Official FX Trading Partner of football club Fulham FC, in a deal running until the end of the 2018-19 season. ICM stated that it will benefit from extensive brand presence at Craven Cottage, the home of Fulham Football Club…
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Forex and CFD educational service Elite CurrenSea (ECS) is launching ecs.LIVE - a new intense trading package for the retail trader with trading setups, live analysis, and regular chart updates. Chris Svorcik and Nenad Kerkez, are the driving forces behind ecs.LIVE, which seeks to bridge the gap between market theory and real live analysis and trading.…
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Euronext, the pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, announces the signing of the renewal of its agreement with LCH SA on the continued provision of derivatives and commodities clearing services for a period of 10 years. This follows the announcement of 8 August 2017. The new long-term agreement covers the clearing of financial and commodity derivatives…
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QuantHouse, the independent global provider of end-to-end high performance market data and trading through API based technologies, today announced the availability of QuantFEED and QuantLINK to Virtu Financial (NASDAQ:VIRT)’s disclosed Systematic Internaliser (SI) platform enabling clients to access Virtu’s liquidity under MiFID II’s transparent SI regime. Virtu Financial is one of the largest electronic market…
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Copenhagen based multi asset broker Saxo Bank has announced that Jesper Andreasen and Hans-Jørgen Terp Flyger will be joining the company, and setting up a new quant unit with the responsibility to drive and manage the development of new state-of-the-art risk tools. The new tools will support Saxo Bank’s internal risk functions and will also…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) today announced its exchange, Cboe Europe Equities (Cboe), formerly known as Bats Europe, had completed its operational preparations having successfully rolled out its final MiFID II exchange software release. Cboe Europe Equities is the largest stock exchange in Europe by value traded. The software release, deployed on Friday, 27…
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Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that South Africa's online stockbroker GT247.com has replaced its ageing legacy trading platforms with MetaTrader 5. GT247.com launched the first version of their own platform back in 2001. The company was the lowest cost online retail broker for traders and the pioneer of CFD trading in the region,…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that the longtime CEO of London-based FX, CFDs and spreadbetting broker ETX Capital, Andrew Edwards (pictured above), has resigned. We also understand that Mr. Edwards has left ETX to take a similar job at a rival firm, which will be unveiled shortly. Replacing Mr. Edwards as CEO of ETX Capital,…
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has announced that it will redeem on December 1, 2017 all of the 125,750 outstanding shares of its 5.50% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series O (“Series O Preferred Stock”). The shares of Series O Preferred Stock are represented by 50,300,000 depositary shares which are currently traded on the New York…
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CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has announced that it has extended its sponsorship agreement with the Brumbies, the Australian professional rugby union football team to be its Official Sponsor for the next three years. Plus500 first became a sponsor of the Brumbies in December 2016. As part of the Agreement, the Plus500 logo will continue…
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