CME Group reports Micro Bitcoin futures volume surpassed 100,000 contracts LeapRate

May 12, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group reports Micro Bitcoin futures volume surpassed 100,000 contracts

The Micro Bitcoin futures provide an cost-effective way for traders to manage their bitcoin exposure and enhance their trading strategies, while at the same time retaining the advantages of CME Group's existing Bitcoin futures contract. Tim McCourt added: Together with our existing, full-sized Bitcoin futures, this new, smaller contract further strengthens our ability to help…

May 07, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: CEO Alex Pusco talks ActivTrades social trading platform development, SEC Chairman plans to tackle ‘gamification’

Canada-based payments processor, Nuvei, are rumoured to be in the process of acquiring Simplex. This Israeli start-up company works to provide crypto companies with a fiat infrastructure. Though the acquisition is yet to be officially confirmed, there have been reports that the companies are in definitive talks surrounding a deal worth around $250 million, paid…

May 04, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Cash-settled micro-Bitcoin futures launched for CME Group

Coinciding with Bitcoin first reaching $20,000 – a monumental milestone for the cryptocurrency – CME Group first launched Bitcoin derivatives back in December of 2017. To reflect US demand for crypto derivatives, the company then further expanded its selection of offerings by launching Ethereum futures and Bitcoin options. It has since become the world’s third-largest…

April 30, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: ActivTrades turnover more than doubles in 2020, IS Prime offers liquidity via Fortex

International mining and digital asset trading network Apifiny has recently announced that US regulator, FINRA, has granted a broker-dealer license to its subsidiary firm, Apifiny Prime. The significant governing recognition means that Apifiny will join Gemini, Coinbase, Circle and eToro as one of the top exchanges on offer. However, it must be noted, however, that…

April 29, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group reveals 24% slump in operating income in its Q1 report

Terry Duffy, Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at CME Group, said: Since the start of 2021, we have experienced strong demand for our products as clients looked to manage risks associated with the potential for a post-pandemic economic recovery. The recent report showed that the derivatives exchange recorded an ADV of approximately 21.8 million…

April 23, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: CLS reports an increase in March trading volumes, Lars Gottwik leaves JFD

Robinhood has announced Christine Brown will lead its crypto division as Chief Operating Officer. At her new position, she’ll oversee all of crypto operations and compliance. Brown will also keep her current position of Robinhood Markets’ VP of Product Operations. The Crypto division is part of Robinhood’s efforts to expand access to financial services to…

April 22, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group to integrate FX link with MarkitSERV and RTN

Dean Berry, Group Head of Trading & Banking Solutions, Refinitiv, commented: We are pleased to now support messaging from CME FX Link activity in order to standardize and streamline how customers can integrate in an efficient way with this growing marketplace for FX swaps. CME Group’s FX Link is available in a central limit order…

April 02, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: FXCM adds social and copy trading via ZuluTrade, ASIC bans binary options and restricts CFDs trading

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released a new policy statement on its website announcing that all UK crypto firms must now submit financial crime reports on a yearly basis, regardless of annual revenue. Within the new financial crimes reporting sphere are cryptoasset business, following plans released eight months ago alluding to the policy change. The…

March 31, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group to expand crypto derivatives with Micro Bitcoin

Reports have found that an average of 13.8K contracts in CME Bitcoin futures, which are equivalent to around 69K bitcoin, have been traded on a daily basis as of March 2021. Additionally, the recently launched CME Ether futures has witnessed trades of 767 contracts (the equivalent of 38.4K ether) on average per day since it…

February 03, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group reports 19.2 million contracts in January

Options ADV reached 3.3 million contracts up by 65% MoM and Energy ADV was 2.2 million contracts, with a 11% MoM increase compared to previous month. Agricultural ADV for the company was 1.7 million contracts, up by 30.8% MoM. Foreign Exchange ADV registered 781,000 contracts and Metals ADV of 719,000 contracts. Additional highlights from January…

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