Barclays Bank Tanzania launches BARX Africa FX trading platform LeapRate

November 15, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Barclays Bank Tanzania launches BARX Africa FX trading platform

This week The Daily News, Tanzania's leading English newspaper reported that British multinational bank powerhouse Barclays has brought its institutional trading platform BARX Africa to Tanzania's forex market. BARX, the multi-asset class e-trading solution from Barclays provides access to FX liquidity through its own proprietary platform, via several ECNs, via FIX and DMA. BARX Africa sales is…

October 16, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

London Stock Exchange, CBOE, major banks form derivatives JV - CurveGlobal

LSEG will provide initial investment of £9.5 million ($14.7m) into the derivatives joint venture, whereas other investors will pump £20.5 million.

October 13, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Barclays addresses speculation about James Staley's potential appointment as its CEO

Following recent media speculation about James Staley being the potential successor of Antony Jenkins, Barclays said the process of appointing a new CEO has not yet concluded.

September 17, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Global banks form partnership to apply cryptocurrency technology to financial markets

Financial innovation firm R3 to spearhead crypto technology solutions for the multi-trillion dollar financial services sector

July 07, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Global banks, service providers and market infrastructures create new hub for end-to-end margin processing

Goal is to facilitate compliance with new margin regulations for non-cleared derivatives effective in 2016.

June 18, 2015 BY Mike Fox

South Korea joins global Forex probes for rigging by banks

Jeong Jae-chan, the chairman of South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission, told a parliamentary hearing that an investigation had begun, although he did not elaborate.

May 26, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Underpaid by $83 million? Senior Barclays trader Jonathan Hoffman thinks so

When senior trader Jonathan Hoffman joined Barclays after the collapse of Lehman Brothers left him with $83 million in unpaid bonuses, Barclays voluntarily gave him the money as part of his employment offer - Now Mr. Hoffman is going after the Lehman estate for a further $83 million

May 18, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Barclays ditches dot com in favour of proprietary domains

The bank says the switch will create a more secure and streamlined experience for customers engaging online.

April 29, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Barclays closes short euro trade while setting aside $1.2b for Forex manipulation scandal

Amidst officially setting aside over $1b in funds for alleged FX manipulation charge today, Barclay's has closed out it's short euro trade as EUR/USD reclaims 1.10.

April 21, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Barclays closes down UK student's bank account after Bitcoin trade

We have learned over the weekend from a report by Kyle Caldwell from UK's Telegraph that a British student had his bank account closed down without explanation after a deposit to his account from a Bitcoin exchange was made. The student admitted someone could have made a fraudulent payment into his account and from there they ‘reviewed’ the account and made ‘a commercial…

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