BNZ (Bank of New Zealand) one of New Zealand's largest banks announced today that it has become a Direct Clearing Member of LCH’s SwapClear interest rate swap clearing service – and has successfully cleared its first trade as a direct member. BNZ Head of Markets, Graeme Liddell said: Being the first New Zealand member of…
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CME Group Inc (NASDAQ: CME) the leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it reached an all-time open interest record of 129 million contracts on June 14, 2017, surpassing the previous open interest record of 125.7 million contracts reached on May 11, 2017. June 14 also represented the highest-volume trading day in 2017 to…
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Announced this week, we learned that clients of OANDA, the global forex brokerage provider can now trade directly from the TradingView website utilizing their innovative charts. TradingView is a social network for traders and investors. Under the agreement, clients can deploy TradingView's customisable charts and technical analysis, while continuing to access OANDA's execution engine, risk…
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Nasdaq Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) today announced that Mattias Hammarqvist (pictured above) has been appointed new CEO of Nasdaq Broker Services AB, effective June 14, 2017. The current CEO, Peter Ekström opted for a role as Head of Business Development at Nasdaq Broker Services with a specific focus on future business opportunities. Mattias Hammarqvist will be…
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The EPC SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme enables the transfer of up to 15000 euros in less than ten seconds. Form3, the cloud based end-to-end secure provider for global payments processing, today announced a partnership with Icon Solutions, a payment and specialist technology provider. The deal extends Form3 Payments-as-a-Service platform beyond the UK real-time payments to include…
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Spotware Systems, the global Forex trading software provider announced today new updates for its cTrader platform on Windows and Web versions. The new features are available now and update briefly before launching. New for cTrader Windows 2.01: Symbol Finder Click Behavior Now traders can choose different actions for what happens when clicking, double clicking, and…
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Compliance.ai today announced the launch of its AI-powered financial regulatory platform giving users immediate access to a comprehensive collection of regulatory insights, trends and content. Compliance.ai’s SMART platform is the first SaaS based, self-service solution to provide financial organizations the power to Search, Monitor, Access, Research and Track regulatory content, in real-time. Compliance.ai’s proprietary machine learning…
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ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V. and Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, today announced ABN AMRO Clearing has contracted to make available the TT trading platform to ABN AMRO Clearing’s customers globally. This agreement furthers the long-standing partnership between Trading Technologies and ABN AMRO Clearing, which is also…
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The Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) put out a warning today stating "the number of dubious providers in the Austrian financial market remains high" and backed it up with some interesting statistics. Examples provided include unregistered high-frequency trading schemes and others providing unrealistic returns. First off, in 2016, the FMA reported they initiated a total…
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InfoReach believes they have gone the extra mile to provide for the needs of the future by preemptively meeting the increasing demands and expectations of modern trading applications. InfoReach, Inc., a global provider of high-performance electronic-trading technology for capital markets, announced support for nanosecond granularity in the accuracy of its products' timestamps. This new technology serves…
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