Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announces that the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has granted authorization Gemini Trust Company, LLC to offer the trading of Ether, an emerging cryptocurrency, on its virtual currency exchange based in New York City. As a limited purpose trust company chartered under New York State Banking Law,…
Read moreThomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) has published the volumes metrics for April 2016, with spot FX volumes continuing to slide after registering a 6.3% month-on-month drop in March 2016. Spot FX volumes averaged $97 billion a day in April 2016, down 6.7% from the result of $104 billion reported in March 2016. The annual comparison was…
Read moreRussia's National Settlement Depository (NSD), part of the Moscow Exchange group of companies, has earlier today reported its operating metrics for the first quarter of 2016, with the number of transactions registered with NSD's Repository marking a 60% year-on-year jump. Central Securities Depository’s Services In the first quarter of 2016, the value of assets under…
Read moreMarkets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services ICAP plc (LON:IAP) has just published its electronic markets metrics for April 2016, with trading activity on EBS slowing down further last month, following an already subdued March 2016. Average daily volumes at EBS amounted to $82.3 billion in April 2016, down 2%…
Read moreRetail FX broker Exness, being true to its transparency commitment, has published key performance metrics for April 2016, with trading volumes down steeply in both monthly and annual terms. The company reported monthly trading volumes of $165.6 billion for April 2016, down 16.3% from the result of $197.9 billion registered in March 2016. The annual…
Read moreMoscow Exchange, or Moskovskaya Birzha MMVB-RTS PAO (MCX:MOEX), the biggest Russian trading venue for currencies, shares and derivatives, has earlier today published its monthly volume metrics for April 2016, with Forex volumes staging a drop in monthly terms, continuing a trend already exhibited in March 2016. MOEX reported monthly FX market turnover of RUB 27.3…
Read moreGain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has lately been quite active when it comes to financial metrics, especially when it comes to restating them. Following the publication of restated numbers for the first three quarters of 2015 and full year 2015, the online trading services provider today posted some key financials for the first three months of…
Read moreGain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has just posted its key operating metrics for April 2016, with average daily volumes up and monthly trading volumes down from March 2016 levels. While on the retail front, OTC average daily volume amounted to $12.2 billion, up 5% from March 2016, the monthly result of $255.8 billion was down…
Read morePost trade infrastructure provider TriOptima, part of ICAP plc (LON:IAP), today announces that Eurex Clearing members successfully completed the first triReduce compression cycle for cleared euro (EUR) interest rate swaps (IRS). This marks the first collaboration between Eurex Clearing, part of Deutsche Boerse AG (ETR:DB1), and TriOptima. The aim of portfolio compression is to cut…
Read moreLeucadia National Corp. (NYSE:LUK), which extended a $300 million loan to FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) in January 2015, following the “Black Thursday” events associated with the Swiss franc spike, has posted its report for the first quarter of 2016, with the document providing an update on the status of the loan repayment and Leucadia's investment in the…
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