Nasdaq, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) today announced that it has been competitively selected to deliver its SMARTS Market Surveillance technology to EBS BrokerTec, a NEX Group Plc (LON: NXG) business that provides electronic trading technology and services to the fixed income and Forex markets. SMARTS Market Surveillance will be integrated within the EBS and BrokerTec platforms to…
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It has been more than two years since the bankruptcy of FCA regulated retail forex and CFD broker Alpari UK. However, it will be a few more months until some Alpari UK clients get at least some of their money back. Alpari UK special administrator KPMG has issued a progress report on the return of…
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Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said low profitability at financial institutions could start a new financial crisis, offering his strongest warning to date of the demerits of aggressive monetary easing pursued by major central banks, Business Insider reported earlier today. Mergers and consolidation may be among options for financial institutions to boost profitability, Kuroda…
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After being the first Chinese bank to stream spot CNH price during Asian time zone, ICBC (Asia) is now the first Chinese bank to initiate a 24 hour price streaming on information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) platform FXall via Electronic Trading (ET). The move supports increasing demand from clients of ICBC (Asia) to price…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that CySEC regulated institutional FX firm PositivaFX (CY) Ltd is making preparations to launch a separate Retail Forex brokerage operation. PositivaFX, based in Limassol, Cyprus and founded in 2014 by CEO George Stylianou (pictured at right) and COO Kaiming Liu, has grown into a fairly successful institutional FX shop, serving mainly small to…
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TriOptima, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which lowers costs and mitigates risk in OTC derivatives markets, just announced that over 60 clients have adopted its triResolve Margin service in anticipation of the new variation margin regulations effective 1 March 2017. These institutions include dealers, buy-side and corporate clients such as Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Sampo plc,…
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This week Bats Global Markets, Inc.(Bats: BATS) makes another entry to its Bats ETF Marketplace with Global X as a new issuer. The Global X Founder-Run Companies ETF (Bats: BOSS) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Solactive U.S. Founder-Run Companies Index. Laura Morrison, Senior Vice President, Global…
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On Wednesday, Deutsche Börse announced an unscheduled change to the SDAX Index. Due to the acquisition of GfK SE by Acceleratio Capital N.V., the free float of GfK SE changed by more than 10 percentage points. According to the Guide to the Equity Indices of Deutsche Börse AG, the company’s free float will be adjusted…
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Bats Global Markets, Inc.(Bats: BATS) welcomed Tortoise as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The Tortoise Water Fund (Bats: TBLU) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and distribution rate (total return) performance of the Tortoise Water Index. Companies included in the index are materially engaged in the water infrastructure or…
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The Competition Commission of South Africa has today referred a Forex manipulation collusion case to the Competition Tribunal which has jurisdiction throughout South Africa and adjudicates competition matters. The Forex collusion case which was first announced back in April of 2015, officially was referred for the prosecution against the following 17 institutions: Bank of America Merrill…
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