Continuing a fairly flat month for volumes we have been seeing from leading retail and institutional eFX industry trading venues, CySEC and FCA regulated broker Exness has reported that forex volumes in its system came in at $248.4 billion in July, slightly below $252.0 billion last month. Each of May, June and July volumes, right around the $250…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that global investment services provider AFX Group has hired seasoned FX industry executive Lisa Murphy to be the COO of its soon-to-be-launched FX Prime brokerage unit, Quantic Prime. Lisa Murphy spent the past year as an operations consultant to a variety of Retail FX industry firms. She began her FX…
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Australia financial regulator ASIC has announced that it has agreed with cash equities broker OpenMarkets Australia Limited for an independent expert to monitor, evaluate and report on OpenMarkets' implementation of recommendations arising from an independent review of its trading and compliance arrangements. The independent expert completed their review of OpenMarkets’ trading and compliance arrangements in…
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Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announced that July 2017 average daily volume (ADV) reached 14 million contracts, down 1 percent compared with July 2016. CME Group July 2017 options volume averaged 2.9 million contracts per day, down 8 percent versus July 2016, with electronic options averaging 2 million contracts per day, up…
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Acenya Capital just announced that relaunches after a two year interruption. Acenya Capital has signed a new white label partnership agreement with MEX Europe and, as it does not have its own FCA license, is acting as an appointed representative of MEX Europe, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The…
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Just days after announcing an official partnership with Real Madrid, FCA and CySEC regulated retail forex broker Exness announced another partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo, winner of four FIFA Ballon d'Or awards and the first player in the world to win four European Golden Shoes. The partnership follows the announcement of Exness' partnership with Real Madrid for…
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During the last week of April, Eurex Clearing, LCH Swapclear and CME have simulated the default of a major participant – based on the Brexit market conditions as of 24 June 2016. At Eurex Clearing, the defaulted member’s portfolio represented one of the largest clearing members with open positions in listed equity (index) derivatives, pending…
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The European Energy Exchange (EEX) and IncubEx have announced a partnership to build and improve liquidity in environmental and other related contracts. In this framework, the partners aim to increase the number of active participants at the exchange and to create a global trading network. The cooperation involves existing environmental products and aims to continuously…
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The Regulatory Reporting Hub of Deutsche Börse Group announced that has launched a partnership with Risk Focus and its software subsidiary, RegTek.Solutions, headquartered in New York. Risk Focus will provide key system components for the Regulatory Reporting Hub’s OTC Trade Reporting solution, including RegTek.Solutions’ Validate.Trade product. The functionality of the components provided by Risk Focus…
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Online broker-dealer and futures commission merchant TradeStation Group, Inc., a fully owned subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698), just announced new pricing for futures for all new customers and all existing customers who notify TradeStation they would like to switch to the new pricing. All customers on this new, simplified futures pricing plan of just…
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