Category: Forex

DTCC - new additions to the Board
May 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

DTCC repo clearing services gain SEC regulatory approval

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved rule changes allowing its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) subsidiary to expand the availability of central clearing in the repo market, strengthening both the safety and efficiency…

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May 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Hong Kong forex broker solutions provider Broctagon launching CySEC licensed prime brokerage business

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Hong Kong based forex brokerage solutions provider Broctagon Solutions has established a subsidiary in Cyprus, ahead of the planned launch of a regulated Prime Brokerage and Liquidity Solutions business. The company has established a sub called Broctagon Prime Ltd, and has already received its CySEC CIF license. The license became…

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May 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

PositivaFX hires easyMarkets forex veteran Dominic Poynter as Head of Marketing

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Limassol, Cyprus based institutional FX liquidity provider PositivaFX has hired Dominic Poynter as its new Head of Marketing. Dominic Poynter is joining PositivaFX after spending the past three years at retail forex broker easyMarkets as its Director of Marketing Operations, including overseeing that company's rebranding from easyForex to easyMarkets…

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FX liquidity providers
May 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Invast Global adds FX pricing from Lucid Markets to its PurePrime prime services facility

Invast Global, the ASIC-regulated Australian-based arm of leading Japanese brokerage Invast Securities Co. Ltd. (TYO:8709), has announced that it has deepened the liquidity offering of its multi-asset prime services facility PurePrime by adding FX pricing from Lucid Markets. Lucid Markets is a unit of Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR), formerly FXCM Inc. Lucid established itself in 2009…

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May 02, 2017 BY admin

Nonbank FX market maker XTX Markets announces Eric Swanson as U.S. CEO

XTX Markets today named Eric Swanson as Chief Executive Officer of XTX Markets (Americas) effective June, 1st 2017. Mr. Swanson is a securities industry veteran, most recently serving as the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Bats Global Markets, Inc. since 2008. Prior to joining Bats, Mr. Swanson served for more than a decade in…

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Dukascopy Bank launches Dukascoin
May 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Dukascopy 2H-2016 revenues lowest since 2014, FY2016 down 5%

Swiss forex broker Dukascopy has published its Annual Report for 2016, which includes some fairly interesting insights into the company's business, and its results over the past few months. The STP broker reported that for the full year 2016 Revenues were down 5% from 2015, coming in at CHF 33.2 million (and with the USD…

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