Category: Forex

DTCC - new additions to the Board
February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

DTCC completes blockchain repurchase test

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, just announced that has successfully completed testing of blockchain-based technology for the clearing and settlement of repurchase, or repo, agreement transactions, and will decide by June whether to deploy the new system, Reuters reported. DTCC, a utility that…

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February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CloudMargin and SmartDX collaborate to help derivatives market participants meet new variation margin rules

CloudMargin, the  creator of the world's first web-based collateral and margin management solution, and SmartDX from Smart Communications, the industry standard for automating trade and relationship document generation, collaboration and processing in the capital markets, just announced that have partnered to address the Daily Variation Margin (VM) Rule that goes into effect March 1 in…

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February 27, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

3 myths about owning a forex brokerage busted

Is owning a Forex brokerage beyond your reach? Perhaps not. Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate, explains. Are you a trader looking to trade up from your existing career? Are you a business person who recognises a strong potential business?  Well, it might be surprising to know that you too can be the proud and…

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February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nex Group's Traiana launches electronic management of confirmations and payments for equity swaps

Traiana, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which monitors pre-trade risk and automates post-trade processing of financial transactions, announces today that it has launched Swaps Centre, a suite of services which enable swaps providers to electronically manage payments and confirmations in equity swaps. By sending confirmations and uploading payment instructions in normalized formats to their entire…

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February 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Merger of Deutsche Börse Group and LSEG not happening again?

London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LSEG) said its $13 billion tie-up with Deutsche Boerse AG is unlikely to proceed after a new regulatory hurdle signaled a potential end to the companies’ efforts to create a champion European exchange, according to Bloomberg. European Union officials had requested that LSE divest MTS, an electronic trading platform for…

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February 24, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

US agencies release swap margin guidance

The Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Thursday issued guidance explaining how supervisors should examine for compliance with the swap margin rule, which established margin requirements for swaps not cleared through a clearinghouse. The guidance explains that the Board and the OCC expect swap entities covered by…

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