Category: Forex

gkfx trading
July 06, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: FX broker GKFX raises additional £12 million from shareholders to fund retail and institutional growth

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned from sources close to the company that FCA regulated forex and CFDs broker GKFX has raised an additional £12 million (USD $15.5 million), to help fund the company's continued growth push in both the Retail and Institutional FX sectors. The current fundraising, injected into the company by controlling shareholder Kasim Garipoglu…

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July 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Azerbaijan adopts Bloomberg auction platform for FX

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan announced that has chosen to conduct its auctions for foreign exchange (FX) instruments and deposits through Bloomberg’s auction platform, officials announced today. Designed to help central banks and finance ministries manage primary market operations, the platform has been recently extended to include FX instruments (spot and outright) and deposits, in…

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July 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX Group: NEX SEF Limited went live on 3 July

NEX Group PLC (LON:NXG) announced that its Swap Execution Facility (SEF), NEX SEF Limited, went live on 3 July 2017. NEX SEF received approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in April 2017 and is also authorised and regulated with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Registration with the CFTC and the FCA will allow…

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Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI)
July 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters launches Startup Incubator

Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) announced the launch of Thomson Reuters Labs™ – The Incubator. Located in Switzerland, the Incubator will host early-stage entrepreneurs building next-generation products in big data, advanced analytics, distributed ledgers, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other transformational technologies. As part of the official program, startups will receive access to Thomson Reuters data and…

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bookmap for deveperts visualization
July 05, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Devexperts and Velox Pro launch Nasdaq TotalView visualization tool, Bookmap

Munich, Germany based Devexperts GmbH, which developes retail and institutional trading platforms and provides cloud based financial data infrastructures, has announced that it has joined with Velox Pro, experts in market depth visualization, to launch Bookmap for Devexperts. Bookmap is a visualization tool based on real-time Nasdaq TotalView and Nasdaq Last Sale data that gives…

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July 05, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monex Group releases steady volumes in June

Monex Group, Inc. (TSE 8698, Oki Matsumoto, Representative Executive Officer and CEO) today reported the following monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in June 2017. Global DARTs (DARTs stand for Daily Average Revenue Trades meaning the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) were up one percent from May to 271,648 for…

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exness fx volumes
July 05, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exness reports FX trading volumes steady in June at $252 billion

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 $252.0 billion in June, slightly below $253.1 billion last month. Both May and June volumes showed a nice increase over…

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