Tag: EBS

August 05, 2014 BY Mike Fox

ICAP's EBS sees FX volumes drop in July, second lowest ever

EBS, the electronic brokerage division of ICAP, has announced its trading volumes for July 2014, which depict a 8% fall back to $70.6B from June's encouraging bump of $77B and breaks the short term  two month trend of volume gains from April's YTD and all time lows. This figure coming in represents the 2nd lowest…

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June 30, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Thomson Reuters confirms more updates to its FX “rule book”

Thomson Reuters is revising its FX trading rules, the company said today, following another round of consultations with market participants. This latest news follows up from late March when Reuters made an announcement it wants to combat FX market manipulation, such as price flashing. Thomson Reuters, along with ICAP-owned EBS is one of the two…

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April 02, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

High frequency trading gaining more popularity in FX than stocks?

30 to 35 percent of transactions on EBS, an electronic trading FX platform owned by ICAP Plc, are high-frequency driven A piece by Bloomberg today examines the shift of HFT strategies from the equities market into currencies. Fundamentals still drive the market over the short and long runs, though not quite in the minute to…

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March 31, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

EBS launches ‘Watch EBS’, a mobile app for the spot FX market

The Watch EBS app features real-time spot FX, precious metals and NDF rates from the EBS Market platform – widely recognised as the industry reference rate EBS, ICAP's market-leading electronic FX business, announced today in an official news release that it is launching ‘Watch EBS’, a new mobile application that gives customers an up-to-date overview…

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