Cornerstone noted that excluding the contribution from acquisitions, the unaudited revenue stood at £888,000. This figure has surpassed the six-month revenue reported by the Group of £837,000 for the first half of 2021. Additionally, revenues generated by clients that Cornerstone served directly increased in the first quarter of 2022 to 77%, compared to 28% for…
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The net interest income also fell 8% to $282 million, due to a drop in securities lending activity but was offset by gains on margin lending and segregated cash balances. However, the other income decreased by $159 million to a loss of $39 million. Pre-tax profit margin came in at 61%, compared to Q1 2021…
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Daily trading volumes also continued to increase steadily in Q1. The highest daily volume was registered on 8th March when more than 23,000 trades were placed amid heightened market activity linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Spectrum Markets reported record growth last year with nearly doubled its trading volume. The company’s turnover reached €1.35 billion…
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Customer growth and expansion During the first three months of the year, the London-listed broker onboarded 33,740 new customers. This is marginally higher than the previous quarter, when the number of customers fell but 62% lower than the Q1 2021. Plus500 also reported 176,642 active traders on its platform. The average revenue per user increased…
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David Jones, Chief Market Strategist at Capital.com, said: There's nothing like volatility to bring traders to markets, and we obviously had that by the bucket load in the first quarter of the year. Gold and oil were notably active markets as Russia invaded Ukraine - at its highest, oil was up 70% for the year…
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SGX sees growth in securities turnover Securities market turnover value rose 21%MoM in March, reaching S$35.7 billion. This also lifted the turnover for the last three months, from January-to-March by 26% compared to previous quarter to S$91 billion. The bellwether Straits Times Index (STI) rose 5.1% in last month to 3,408.52. It was Asia-Pacific’s strongest…
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PrimeXM’s Data Centre in LD4’s notional trading volume in March stood at $964 billion. TY3 recorded $191 billion and NY4 followed with $191 billion. SG1 data centre showed steady growth with $8.57 billion. XAUUSD remains the most popular trading instrument, recording one third of all volume traded in March. EURSD index took 2nd place with…
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Lord Cruddas, the CEO of CMC Markets, commented: I am delighted to report another year of strong performance both strategically and financially. Outside of the pandemic year (Financial year ending March 2021), this is a record net operating income result for the company. The performance reflects the ongoing success of our B2B technology partnerships and…
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Last month’s numbers represent a 4.4% rise compared to February 2022. On yearly basis, the ADV increased 6.9% compared to the same period during the previous year.
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Asia Pacific ADV registered a record 1.9 million contracts in Q1 2022, up 22% due to growth in Energy, Equity Index and Interest Rate products in the region. Latin America ADV reached 162,000 contracts in with 28% increase from Q1 2021. On a global scale, CME Group saw ADV of 26 million contracts in Q1…
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