Japan Exchange Group (JPX) and Nasdaq have officially announced that JPX has gone live with their new next-generation derivatives trading system for the JPX subsidiary, Osaka Exchange. This is a milestone in the relationship between Nasdaq and JPX, who have been working together since 2011. “We are proud to be supporting JPX as they successfully launch their new…
Read moreThe International Securities Exchange (ISE), now part of Nasdaq, has reported a combined average daily volume (ADV) of 2.2 million contracts in June 2016 for its three options exchanges: ISE, ISE Gemini, and ISE Mercury. ISE’s options exchanges combined to represent 15.2% of equity options market share, excluding dividend trades, which made up 0.4% of…
Read moreAt the end of the settlement date of June 30, 2016, short interest in 2,316 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,887,260,999 shares compared with 7,830,349,659 shares in 2,313 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of June 15, 2016. The end-of-May short interest represents 4.76 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume…
Read moreColt PrizmNet, the financial extranet developed by Colt, has continued to grow its footprint in Asia by connecting to Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in Hong Kong (HK1) and Singapore (SG1). Colt can now interconnect with key FX centres, both globally and across Asia, including direct connectivity to Equinix’s TY3 data centre in Tokyo, the largest FX trading facility in Asia, as well as Sydney…
Read moreTMX Group Limited today announced that Michael Ptasznik, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), has resigned from the organization to pursue an opportunity with The NASDAQ Stock Market. Mr. Ptasznik joined TMX Group in 1996 as Director of Finance Planning and Analysis and became CFO in 2000. As CFO, he led the company's finance, corporate development and strategic…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... Further to our exclusive coverage of the planned merger between leading retail forex MT4 brokers IronFX and FXDD, LeapRate has learned some more details regarding the plans, as well as the regulatory filing we alluded to in our earlier article. And, the identity of the public company which will be part of the…
Read moreLeapRate has learned from sources close to the situation as well as from regulatory filings made late last week that retail Forex brokers IronFX and FXDD are planning to merge. At the same time, the merged company is planning to go public on Nasdaq via a reverse takeover of an existing publicly traded company. The transaction is…
Read moreNasdaq and Digital Reasoning, a leader in cognitive computing, have announced a strategic alliance to offer next generation, holistic surveillance technology to the global capital markets, including the buy-side, brokers, regulators and exchanges. Digital Reasoning’s eComms monitoring for proactive compliance and Nasdaq’s industry leading and award-winning SMARTS Surveillance solutions will deliver a unified approach through…
Read moreCySEC regulated forex broker Orbex is announcing today they are adding two sets of new trading instruments. Orbex launched today cash indices on Dow Jones, Nasdaq, S&P and DAX that are offered with low margin requirements, non-expiring contracts, fixed spreads, and zero commission charges. The new indices are replacing the broker's regular equity indices of which the last traded contract will…
Read moreThe Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) today announced that it has received a request from Nasdaq Dubai Ltd to obtain designation as the National Numbering Agency (NNA) for the jurisdiction of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The role of the NNA is to accept registration information from issuers of new financial instruments such as…
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