The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today entered into a cooperation agreement with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to foster collaboration in support of financial technology (Fintech) innovation. Under the agreement, the SFC and the FCA will cooperate on information sharing and referrals of innovative firms seeking to enter one another’s markets.…
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TMX Insights today announced it has teamed up with IRESS (ASX:IRE), a supplier of technology for wealth management and financial markets, to develop compatibility between the IRESS products and the TMX Analytics Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) application. TMX Analytics TCA offers clients protected access to their trade and order history and enables them to review…
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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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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that a new FX social trading site and service has just been launched in Switzerland, with something of a new take on the concept. The new company, called Crowd Trading (at www.crowd-trading.com) has been launched by a number of engineers at a Swiss Forex broker, led by Managing Partner Alexandru Craciun.…
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The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has announced the creation of its Fintech Lab. It will enable the AMF to explore the current and potential applications of new technologies among regulated entities (including market infrastructures) or in connection with its regulatory activities. The Lab will be accessible to all AMF staff who contribute to the…
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PFSOFT, the global fintech developer of multi-asset brokerage and trading solutions, presents a fully functional version of Protrader for macOS and enables demo account registration. Two months ago the company announced release of a closed beta version of its newest native front end trading platform designed for macOS. Now PFSOFT releases a production version of…
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Colt Technology Services announced that it has opened a point of presence (PoP) in Marseille - an increasingly important hub location for carriers and organisations looking for a high bandwidth connectivity gateway connecting Europe with Asia, Africa and the Middle East, due to the landing of several important subsea cables from these regions in the…
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Vela Trading Technologies, a high performance trading and market data technology company, has launched a fully-managed European Best Bid Offer (EBBO) solution in response to increased client demand to comply with the changing pre-trade transparency and best execution rules which will come into force with MiFID II in January 2018. An EBBO solution will help…
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Ullink, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, announced that has launched a fully automated post-trade data management solution called UL PUBLISHER, enabling market participants to report transaction data to relevant regulatory authorities, meet upcoming MiFID 2 regulation and create a centralised view of post-trade data across multiple asset…
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