January 05, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

bwin.party's Kalixa set to pocket €10m from Visa deal

Kalixa Payments Group, part of bwin.party Digital Entertainment Plc (LON:BPTY), is set to receive a one-off payment of approximately €10 million ($10.9m) from the sale of Visa Europe to Visa Inc (NYSE:V). The €21.2 billion acquisition of Visa Europe by Visa Inc was agreed on November 2, 2015. As one of Visa Europe's Principal Members,…

Read more
January 05, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CBOE Holdings' trading volumes slide 11% in 2015

CBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:CBOE), the holding company for Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), C2 Options Exchange (C2), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), and other subsidiaries, has just published its operating metrics for 2015. The volumes for options and futures contracts registered a drop from levels seen in 2014, although December 2015 was stronger for trading than…

Read more
January 04, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Forex market volatile to begin 2016; Yen soars, equity markets down big

Well, 2016 has started off with a bang. a piece by Patrick Graham of Reuters got some inside quotes from brokers in the trenches as China's yuan currency hit its lowest in more than 4 years in both onshore and offshore Renminbi. The culprit of the volatility? Downbeat Chinese economic data. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite shed 6.9%,…

Read more
January 04, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Wharton's WRDS adds RavenPack News Analytics for news and social media

Wharton Business School's Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), the leading data research platform and business intelligence tool for corporate, academic and government institutions worldwide, has announced the addition of RavenPack News Analytics to its data offerings. A part of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, WRDS provides the leading business intelligence, data analytics, and financial…

Read more
January 04, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

SGX marks record USD/CNH futures volume in December

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX:S68) today announced that it marked a record in USD/CNH futures trading in December 2015. The Exchange said that USD/CNH futures trading volume rose more than 50% month-on-month to a record 51,702 contracts traded (approximately US$5.1 billion in notional value traded) last month. In annual terms, the rise is even more pronounced,…

Read more