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October 11, 2024 10:23 Cumberland DRW Charged by SEC for Operating as Unregistered Dealer
October 11, 2024 10:08 CAB Payments Confirms StoneX Acquisition Proposal
October 10, 2024 9:59 Cboe Set to Launch Options on VIX Futures on October 14
October 10, 2024 9:41 AmerX Leverages Broadridge Technology for New Securities Lending Business
October 10, 2024 9:21 Stripe and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Boost AI Capabilities
October 11, 2024 — BY Sam Boughedda

ASIC Cracks Down: Cancels Two Financial Services Licences and 11 Credit Licences

The cancellations took place based on various compliance failures. These reportedly included non-membership in the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA), late lodgement of annual complia...
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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

SIX enhances ESG offering with investment in Ordena Software Solutions
October 09, 2024 — BY Sam Boughedda

Truflation Unveils Real-Time AI Index
The index is designed to track the performance of Artificial Intelligence companies and the Real World Assets (RWAs) driving generative AI. The index comes at a time when the global AI market is ex...
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October 08, 2024

ATFX Announces Strategic Investment in Spark Systems to Enhance Institutional Offerings

The investment in Spark Systems creates opportunities to leverage ATFX Connect liquidity within the platform, this ...
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October 08, 2024

Instantia Seleects ION FX for Trade Execution and Risk Management

Instantia, which offers users a client-centric way to manage currency exchange, FX strategies, and cross-border payme...
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October 07, 2024

Euronext Expands Single Stock Options Offering

The company said in its press release that it believes the expansion further solidifies its position as a key player ...
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October 04, 2024

Interactive Brokers to Introduce Forecast Contracts on Election Outcomes

The contracts debuted on Thursday evening through the ForecastEx exchange, allowing investors to hedge against politi...
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Interactive Brokers
October 03, 2024
Acuity Trading and Interactive Brokers Join Forces to Provide Advanced Research Tools
The company explained in a press release that the partnership aims to equip investors with powerful research capabili...
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October 03, 2024
DXtrade Partners with Finalto to Enhance Liquidity Provider Services
Finalto, an aggregator of Tier 1 bank liquidity providers and established non-bank market makers, offers a bespoke li...
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October 03, 2024
Worldline and BOCHK Partner to Launch Open Platform Card Solution in Hong Kong
BOCHK is the first customer of Worldline's innovative solution in Hong Kong. The partnership is a step towards adopti...
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October 02, 2024
ASIC Cancels Prospero Markets AFS License
Prospero's AFS license was suspended in December 2023 after the company failed to submit its 2023 audited financial a...
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July 11, 2023

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Interview: Brokeree’s Julia Ilichyova talks about expansion in EMEA and APAC+ and growing the team

LR: Two years ago, we talked about how the team behind Brokeree has developed since the company’s inception. Can you tell me how the team has grown and evolved in the past two years? Julia: Over ...
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Exclusive Interview: Eduardo Alves talks about driving strategic excellence at 4XC

LR: What motivated you to join 4XC as the Chief Strategic Officer? Eduardo: Choosing to join 4XC came from a deep personal connection with Joao Monteiro, the company's founder, and our shared visio...
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March 08, 2023

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Exclusive: Focus on women in tech on International Women's Day

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Interview with Hantec Markets' Hayel Abu-Hamdan
March 07, 2023

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Exclusive: Hantec Markets' Hayel Abu-Hamdan talks about LATAM expansion, market expectations for 2023 and more

LR: Hantec Markets expanded in LATAM with a new Chile office in October last year. What does that mean for the company? Hayel: Our expansion into LATAM is the latest example of our company’s cont...
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October 11, 2024 — BY Sam Boughedda

Cumberland DRW Charged by SEC for Operating as Unregistered Dealer

The SEC alleges that Cumberland has been engaged in buying and selling crypto assets offered and sold as securities for its own accounts since at least March 2018. According to the SEC, as part of its complaint, Cumberland acted as a dealer by trading crypto assets via its Marea online trading platform and by engaging…
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October 08, 2024
FTX's high-profile collapse in November 2022 sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency industry. It resulted in the criminal conviction of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to 25 ye...
Robinhood
October 01, 2024
The feature allows users to deposit and withdraw over 20 cryptocurrencies, including major players like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Solana (SOL). “With the launch of crypto transfers in Eu...
September 02, 2024
This approval allows OKX to offer digital payment token and cross-border money transfer services to customers in the country. This includes spot trading of cryptocurrencies for customers in Singap...
Dubai
April 19, 2024
This was confirmed with the news that the company, which runs the world’s biggest crypto exchange, has received a licence to operate as a full virtual-asset services provider (VASP). The licence ...
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October 08, 2024 BY Sam Boughedda

Instantia Seleects ION FX for Trade Execution and Risk Management

Instantia, which offers users a client-centric way to manage currency exchange, FX strategies, and cross-border payments, was said to be drawn to ION FX's comprehensive end-to-end processing functionality for FX cash and derivative products. ION added that Instantia also appreciated the ability to customise the user interface through ION APIs, which they believe improves the…
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September 19, 2024
Barchart and SIGMA Join Forces to Deliver AI-Powered Trading Insights
The companies said in a press release that the partnership aims to leverage the strengths of both companies and deliver cutting-edge tools and insights for traders. The partnership hinges on integr...
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Broadridge
September 16, 2024
Broadridge Tools Now Integrated in Morningstar Advisor Workstation
The collaboration is said to aim to empower independent advisors with a more thorough suite of tools to support clients' financial goals. Broadridge explained in its press release that by integrati...
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September 12, 2024
Tradu and TradingView Announce Strategic Partnership
Tradu said in a press release that the collaboration with the charting platform will provide Tradu's clients with access to TradingView's advanced charting and trading tools. The partnership will s...
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Tokyo
September 11, 2024
Virtu Financial Connects Triton Valor EMS to Tokyo Stock Exchange's CONNEQTOR
Triton Valor is a global, multi-asset EMS that enables traders to execute trades across various asset classes, including equities, ETFs, futures, options, FX, and fixed income. The system is design...
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