MOEX meets ISO standards for information security and business continuity LeapRate

October 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX meets ISO standards for information security and business continuity

Moscow Exchange Group (MOEX) has today announced that it has achieved the ISO 27001:2013 – Information Security Management Systems and ISO 22301:2012 - Business Continuity Management Systems certification covering the organization of on-exchange trading, clearing services and services on the securities, derivatives, FX and precious metals markets. This voluntary certification followed the completion of an…

October 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CryptoCompare publishes Cryptoasset Taxonomy Report

CryptoCompare, the global cryptocurrency market data provider, has today published the ‘Cryptoasset Taxonomy Report’. The taxonomy provides retail and institutional investors, regulators and the industry as a whole with an independent classification of cryptoassets, based on the depth, breadth and scope of CryptoCompare’s global datasets. More than 1,000 different cryptoassets have emerged in the last…

October 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Quantitative Brokers’ execution algorithms now available to the QuantHouse community

QuantHouse, the independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, has announced access to Quantitative Brokers’ (QB) best execution algorithms for futures and fixed income. QB is a global, independent technology company providing advanced execution algorithms and analytics for global futures and US cash…

Trading Technologies teams up with TradeStation to offer its options-on-futures technology

October 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nissan Securities to distribute Trading Technologies' platform

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, and Nissan Securities, a Tokyo-based futures execution and clearing member, have just announced that Nissan Securities has contracted to distribute the TT platform. With this agreement, Nissan Securities will further expand its trade execution technology by directly offering…

Admiral Markets adds new index and commodity futures derivatives for trading on MT5

October 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Admiral Markets makes 300+ ETF and 8 Commodity CFDs accessible to Retail clients

Estonia based Retail FX brokerage firm Admiral Markets Group AS has announced that over 300 financial instruments that have been exclusively accessible to Admiral Markets Pro users are now available to all Retail clients with Admiral.MT5 accounts. The latest additions to the company's range of commodity CFDs now allow Retail traders to take leveraged exposure…

DZ PRIVATBANK migrates to Itiviti multi-asset OMS platform

October 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Capital Crux joins Itiviti’s Global Alliance Programme

Itiviti, the global provider of multi-asset trading technology and financial infrastructure, has announced a new partnership with Capital Crux, a Hong Kong based digital consulting firm with its headquarter in Shanghai. Capital Crux has joined the Itiviti Global Alliance Programme (GAP) as a Business Introducing Partner (BIP), supporting Itiviti’s business development efforts in mainland China.…

October 16, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

JP Morgan takes up 6.4% position in Playtech

Another major institutional player has taken a large bet on online gaming and financial trading company Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC), with regulatory filings showing that US banking giant JP Morgan has picked up an effective 6.41% stake in Playtech over the past few days, JP Morgan's stake consists mainly of a series of cash-settled equity swaps, plus…

October 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group reports strong Asia growth in Q3 led by equities and FX

Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that it achieved Asia Pacific quarterly average daily volume (ADV) of 726,000 contracts in the third quarter of the year, up 4% from the corresponding period last year. This was driven largely by a strong performance in Equity and FX products, up 41 percent and 36 percent respectively.…

October 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Security token trading platform DSTOQ teams up with Blockpass

Peer-to-peer security token trading platform DSTOQ and data-secure identity verification system Blockpass have announced a joint mission to bring the compliant tokenized security and equity token trading to a global user-base. The new partnership is set to streamline security tokenization for businesses everywhere, all while making the investment process safer for anyone interested in purchasing…