Category: Forex

March 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Edelweiss Singapore installs latest version of Horizon trading software

Horizon Software, the global provider of electronic trading and investment management technology, just announced the extension of its long-term relationship with Edelweiss International Singapore (Pte) Limited, a subsidiary of Edelweiss Financial Services Limited, one of India's leading diversified financial services companies. Edelweiss will be using the latest version of Horizon's trading technology as a strategic…

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Global Prime teams up with Gold-i to offer liquidity through the Matrix Net platform
March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

IS Prime launches institutional-only API Index Swaps

Institutional prime of prime broker IS Prime has announced the launch of a range of Index Swap products, focusing on the most popular index and energy instruments required by retail brokers. IS Prime’s new, institutional-only API Index Swap offering includes: Germany 30 Hong Kong 50 Wall Street 30 UK 100 US Tech 100 UK and…

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March 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hanweck announces addition of Nasdaq’s Jean-Jacques Louis to Board of Directors

Hanweck, a provider of real-time risk analytics on global derivatives markets, just announced that Jean-Jacques Louis, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Nasdaq, has joined its Board of Directors. At Nasdaq, Mr. Louis is responsible for the strategic and financial analyses and execution of all corporate and business unit investments. Nasdaq is a strategic…

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ESMA Chairman targets asset managers for adequacy of liquidity concerns
March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Alpha and Gold-i partner to offer MT4 / MT5 multi asset bridge and liquidity

Trading solutions and liquidity provider Alpha Capital Markets, and MetaTrader technology solutions firm Gold-i, have announced a joint effort to provide Alpha's liquidity solutions to MT4 and MT5 brokers, using Gold-i's bridge gateway. Gold-i launched its MT5 gateway last November. We understand that Alpha and Gold-i are currently finalizing implementation on their first joint client.…

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FXCM FX trading volumes
March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM (non-US) volumes drop 21% in February to $201 billion

Retail Forex broker FXCM has announced its volume results for February, the last month for which FXCM had both US and non-US volumes to report. FXCM sold its US client base to rival Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) and its Forex.com retail FX unit at the end of February, after the company and CEO Drew Niv…

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March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Dow Jones launches Factiva App on the Salesforce AppExchange

Dow Jones today announced it has launched the Factiva app on the Salesforce AppExchange, empowering businesses to connect with their customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways. The Factiva app offers customers access to content from 33,000 premium news sources and over 20 million public and private company profiles. Factiva’s set of sources is…

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March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

KCG trade volumes are steady in February

KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) today released trade volumes for the month of February 2017. In Market Making, KCG averaged $28.0 billion dollar volume traded (a minor decrease compared to January), 10.9 billion shares traded, and 3.4 million trades per day in U.S. equities. In Global Execution Services: KCG Institutional Equities averaged 217.0 million U.S.…

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March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

PsyQuation completes first full integration with Australia forex broker GO Markets

Behavioral profiling based trading tool provider PsyQuation just announced that starts to offer the functionality of its robo trading coach to GO Markets clients via the brokers client portal. CEO of PsyQuation Michael Berman commented: GO Markets were focused on simplifying the sign-up process, allowing their clients to opt-in to Psyquation through their new online portal.…

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