Amid the hype around the cryptocurrency market, an iced tea company has managed to triple its value after adding the word "Blockchain" to its name. The Long Island Iced Tea Corp., which is a beverage company, changed its name to the Long Blockchain Corp. and expressed their hope to get around partner companies that invest…
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BGC Partners, Bloomberg, i-Swap, a TP ICAP Group company, Tradeweb and Tradition’s Trad-X are each seeking to become an ‘Approved Platform’ as part of the Eurex Clearing Partnership Program framework. Eurex Clearing, one of theCentral Counterparties (CCP) and part of Deutsche Börse Group, announced that it cooperates with major execution platforms for OTC traded interest…
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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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The launch of Bloomberg's RMB Bond Suite is an extension of the company's broader strategic focus on China's fixed income market, following the recent inclusion of Chinese bonds into its global fixed income indices Bloomberg today announced the launch of its new RMB Bond Suite, a set of advanced fixed income investment tools for China's…
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New Zealand based retail forex broker Fullerton Markets has announced the hiring of ex-Bloomberg Strategist, Jimmy Zhu. Coming on board Fullerton Markets as Chief Strategist, Jimmy Zhu was at the aforementioned Bloomberg for the past three years, covering a wide range of topics which included Forex, sovereign bonds and economic data. He was previously an…
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Bloomberg and Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, have announced they plan to provide Bloomberg customers with the ability to use their respective Approved Publication Arrangements (APA) to fulfil MiFID II transparency reporting requirements. Under MiFID II, market participants are facing a steep increase of reporting tasks they need to manage, for…
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Bloomberg Tradebook, Bloomberg’s global agency broker, announced today the introduction of OPTX, a new approach to delivering best execution that harnesses the power of its agency execution model, global connectivity and Bloomberg’s data and analytics. OPTX provides clients with a single platform that utilizes quantitative data models and analytic-driven selection to route orders to a…
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Haier Finance Co., Ltd today revealed the company has adopted Bloomberg’s Forex electronic trading platform (FXGO) and Multi-Asset Risk System (MARS) for FX trading and risk management. Haier Finance ranks among the top ten finance companies in China and foreign exchange is part of its core business. A subsidiary of leading Chinese home appliance company…
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Bloomberg announced the release of its executable streaming for non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) on FXGO, its global Forex trading platform. Standard Chartered PLC (LON: STAN) with one of the most extensive FX offerings across the globe, will be the first liquidity provider to participate. This will allow the bank to contribute executable pricing across a wide…
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Tokyo Financial Exchange Inc. (TFX) has announced that has just started providing market data of Click 365 (Exchange FX Margin Contracts) & Click Kabu 365 (Exchange Equity Index Margin Contracts) to Bloomberg L.P. (Bloomberg). Wataru Ito, Senior Managing Director of TFX, said: We are delighted to providing our Exchange Margin Contracts market data to Bloomberg…
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