Brian Quintenz was officially sworn in today, after being unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 3, to serve as a Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency that oversees the commodity futures, options and swaps industry. His term expires in April 2020. I’m deeply honored to be sworn…
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Quantitative Brokers (QB), an independent, global financial technology company providing advanced, dealer-neutral agency algorithms in Futures and US Cash Treasury markets just announced that Tony Davison has been named Head of Sales for EMEA. Davison moved to QB in July from his role as Chief Strategy Officer at Celer Technologies. Prior to that, he worked…
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On 15 August 2017, Alina Sychova joined Otkritie Capital as Head of Debt and Equity Capital Markets. This is a new area for the company – its further development will make the Russian and international capital markets accessible for clients and issuers, both through public equity (ECM) and debt securities (DCM) offerings. Alina Sychova has…
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AgriClear, North America's premier online cattle transaction and payment platform, together with United Producers Inc. (UPI), one of North America's largest farmer owned and operated livestock marketing cooperative, today announced a collaborative agreement to benefit livestock farmers across the Midwest. UPI will now utilize AgriClear as its digital marketing solution for online cattle transactions, which…
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LMAX Exchange, the FCA regulated MTF for FX, has announced the appointment of Scott Moffat as Managing Director for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. Part of the LMAX Exchange founding team and former Chief Operating Officer, Scott Moffat will be instrumental in strengthening the company’s position in the region and building upon the existing presence,…
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Retail forex broker FXCM, a unit of Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR), has announced that it has closed as expected the sale of its institutional FX ECN unit FastMatch to Euronext NV (EPA:ENX). The original agreement was reported at the end of May, when Euronext agreed to buy FastMatch for $153 million. FastMatch was jointly owned by FXCM, and…
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Enables financial professionals to access, share and integrate Dow Jones’s premium news and analysis directly into their workflows Dow Jones has announced the launch of a revamped news app on Symphony, the secure collaboration and workflow platform, which gives Symphony users access to premium news and analysis from across the Dow Jones global network. The…
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LCH Limited, a global clearing house, announced today that it has introduced a new type of client account within its SwapClear service. The account allows buy-side clients to deliver collateral directly to the clearing house and to retain beneficial title to it. Segregation at an International Central Securities Depository (ICSD) ensures that such securities collateral…
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Following the recent leveraged products marketing ban in France, CySEC regulated retail forex and CFDs broker JFD Brokers has announced the launch of a new website for its French clients, offering a tailored solution for the French market. JFD Brokers will execute all its orders from France based clients via a Multi-lateral Trading Facility (MTF).…
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Oracle today announced that it is gaining customer momentum across the industry’s most comprehensive cloud business. In FY17, Oracle Cloud Platform revenues were up 60 percent from FY16 to $1.4 billion. Organizations including Advanced Drainage Systems, ARRIS, Australian Finance Group, Benchmark, Detroit Water and Sewerage, Immofinanz AG, Malmo stad, Marz Systems, Mebrom, Nuvias Group, Pernod…
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