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May 09, 2025 10:35 Coinbase to Acquire Crypto Options Exchange Deribit for $2.9bn
May 09, 2025 10:30 Webull Financial Hit With $1.6m Fine By FINRA
May 08, 2025 10:12 HSBC Announces TradePay For Import Duties Amid Tariff Uncertainty
May 08, 2025 10:01 StoneX Revenues Rise, But FX/CFD Contracts Segment Declines in Q2
May 08, 2025 9:53 CMC Markets Takes a Controlling 51% Stake in StrikeX Technologies
SEC
May 9, 2025 — BY Sam Boughedda

SEC Announces Settlement Agreement With Ripple and Two Executives

The move potentially ends a long-running civil enforcement action filed in December 2020. Under the terms of the agreement, the SEC and Ripple will jointly ask the district court to consider dissol...
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January 08, 2024
Storms and strikes not flooding the positive outlook on the UK economy
As traders recently turned bullish on the sterling for the first time in three months, analysts believe the UK economy, which spent most of 2023 on the rim of recession, is on the rise. Bloomberg r...
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November 21, 2023
UK borrowing reaches record levels, topped only by stats from 1993 & 2020
The ONS’s figures also compared the same period from 2022, where net borrowing registered lower than this October’s figures. Not only this, but it also sits as the second highest borrowing figu...
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July 27, 2023
Is the Fed done hiking? Markets think so, Powell doesn’t
Market Expects No Further Hikes in 2023 According to the CME’s FedWatch tool, market participants now overwhelmingly expect that the Fed’s hikes for 2023 are over. There is currently a 78% prob...
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July 25, 2023
Weekly data: traders concentrate on the Fed and ECB
The focus for the Fed’s press conference on Wednesday night is on whether there’s any hint about a hike in the fourth quarter. Traders mostly expect this to be the last hike of this cycle for t...
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Forex News

May 08, 2025 — BY Sam Boughedda

HSBC Announces TradePay For Import Duties Amid Tariff Uncertainty
The new service, HSBC TradePay for Import Duties, is said to enable businesses to streamline duty payments while optimising working capital.  By allowing HSBC to settle import duty payments direct...
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May 08, 2025

StoneX Revenues Rise, But FX/CFD Contracts Segment Declines in Q2

Net income increased 35% to $71.7 million, while diluted earnings per share rose 29% to $1.41. Executive Vice Chairma...
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May 08, 2025

CMC Markets Takes a Controlling 51% Stake in StrikeX Technologies

The move strengthens CMC’s position in the digital asset space, with the FTSE 250-listed financial services provide...
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May 07, 2025

Ant International, Barclays Partner on Global Treasury Management with AI-Powered FX Model

The company introduced a new FX solution that aims to lower costs and improve risk forecasting for businesses navigat...
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May 07, 2025

Webull Partners with Visa

The company explained that the partnership integrates Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time payments solution, into the Web...
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May 06, 2025
Sky Links Capital Establishes New Holding Company in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)
The firm said the DIFC, widely recognised as a leading financial hub for the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, off...
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May 06, 2025
Alpha Group International Rejects Corpay Acquisition Proposal
In a statement, Alpha said it had carefully reviewed the conditional proposal with its financial advisers before deci...
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May 06, 2025
Broadridge Financial Announces Enhancements to OpsGPT
The company said it has introduced new capabilities designed to enhance efficiency and reduce risk for global financi...
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Cboe
May 02, 2025
Cboe Announces Craig Donohue as New CEO
Donohue brings more than 30 years of experience in global financial markets, including eight years as CEO of CME Grou...
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SEC
May 09, 2025 — BY Sam Boughedda

SEC Announces Settlement Agreement With Ripple and Two Executives

The move potentially ends a long-running civil enforcement action filed in December 2020. Under the terms of the agreement, the SEC and Ripple will jointly ask the district court to consider dissolving an injunction imposed in an August 2024 judgment and to release funds held in escrow.  That escrow account currently holds a $125 million…
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May 09, 2025
The acquisition will see Coinbase pay $700 million in cash and issue 11 million shares of its Class A stock. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2025. Deribit has roughly $30 billion in ope...
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The move strengthens CMC’s position in the digital asset space, with the FTSE 250-listed financial services provider also increasing its holdings of the STRX token from 10 million to 15 million. ...
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January 21, 2025 BY Sam Boughedda

Standard Chartered Announces Launch of SC PrismFX

The firm said in a press release that the solutions suite is designed to cater to the diverse FX needs of Financial Institutions (FI), Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFI), PayTech, and Corporate clients globally. SC PrismFX is said to integrate Standard Chartered’s digital Transaction Banking, Financial Markets, and Digital Platforms under one brand, providing FX payment…
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