CME Group Inc (NASDAQ: CME) the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced today it set a total open interest record of 125.7 million contracts yesterday, May 11, 2017. The new record follows four consecutive record open interest days. Prior to this four-day streak, the previous open interest record of 123.1 million contracts was set…
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NEX Data is working in conjunction with NEX Markets to produce new FX margin ratios that are core to meeting new Japanese regulatory requirements NEX Data, a NEX Group business which delivers independent market intelligence and price information for OTC data, announces today that it has been mandated by the Financial Futures Association of Japan…
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Noble Bank International (NBI), the first non-fractional reserve bank, is officially announcing the launch of Noble FX. With this launch, Noble introduces its initial service for real-time post-trade banking for OTC markets. NBI allows clients to create their own pools of credit, enabling counterparties to clear, net and settle spot FX and precious metals transactions…
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This week LeapRate caught up with Imran Firoz, Managing Director (pictured above) of US-headquartered Match-Trade Technologies, a global Forex brokerage software provider. His early experience in the FX industry was as the Chief Financial Officer of a brokerage firm where he provided financial oversight to accounting & finance departments of the company and advised the…
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Finantick, a recent entry into the platform development space for retail FX and binary options trading today informed of the launch of a new version of its binary brokerage platform, now offering a new user interface, messaging and pop-up system, as well as direct integrations to the largest affiliate systems. The company, which was largely…
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QuantHouse is a Paris-based end to end systematic trading solutions provider.
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The Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC), the leading Central Counter Party (CCP) in the region and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX), has announced the launch of a state-of-the-art Risk Management System (RMS) called ActiveRisk. ActiveRisk, developed by Chella Software (CSPL), has been deployed by DCCC with the primary…
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Forex brokerage company Admiral Markets Group AS has recently announced a change to its management structure. Two of the board members, Sergei Bogatenkov and James Chernikov have remained part of the board, while three new board members were appointed to complete the team: Jens Chrzanowski, Mindaugas Deksnys and Victor Gherbovet. They will be in charge of…
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Coming soon will be the first of their kind gold futures contracts denominated in CNH and US$ available on the same platform. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) plans to introduce physically settled CNH (offshore Renminbi, or RMB) and US dollar (US$) Gold Futures contracts in the third quarter of this year, subject to…
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Hotspot, a CBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ: CBOE) company and institutional FX trading ECN market has announced the first anonymous outright deliverable forward FX transaction executed on the platform. Hotspot is the first platform to provide outright deliverable forwards on an anonymous central limit order book. Further, it is the first platform to allow prime brokerage…
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