Beginning our peek into August 2017 trading volumes at leading eFX trading platforms, data from institutional Forex ECN Hotspot FX indicates that August trading volumes were equal to those of July clocking in at $27.1 billion average daily volume for the month. Similar in pattern to June and July, activity did seem to be stronger in…
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Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE), company has today announced it received approval from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on 24 August 2017 to operate its trade reporting facility as an Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) under MiFID II, with effect from 3 January 2018. The TDM, which is one of Bats’ BXTR suite…
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CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) announced today that trading volume in options and futures on the CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX®) each reached new all-time highs on Thursday, August 10. In VIX options at CBOE, a reported 2,562,477 contracts traded on Thursday, surpassing the previous single-day record of 2,382,752 contracts on February 3, 2014. Year-to-date through…
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Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) company, and market for exchange-traded product (ETP) trading globally, today welcomed thirty iShares funds to the Bats ETF Marketplace, the largest single transfer the exchange has handled. The funds, which have consolidated assets under management over $110 billion, bring the total number of iShares funds listed on Bats to…
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CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) and Gemini Trust Company, LLC today announced an agreement that provides Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated (CBOE) and its affiliates with an exclusive global license to use Gemini’s bitcoin market data for bitcoin derivatives and indices. Gemini is a digital asset exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell,…
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Beginning our peek into July 2017 trading volumes at leading eFX trading platforms, data from institutional Forex ECN Hotspot FX indicates that July trading volumes decreased slightly by about 3% MoM from June, clocking in at $27.1 billion average daily volume for the month. Similar in pattern to June, activity did seem to be stronger in…
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CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) has announced its Board of Directors declared an increased quarterly cash dividend of $0.27 per share of common stock for the third quarter of 2017, representing an 8 percent increase compared with the prior quarter’s dividend of $0.25 per share. The third-quarter dividend is payable on September 15, 2017, to…
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Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) company and the region’s largest equities exchange operator, today announced the successful rollout of its penultimate software release ahead of MiFID II. All of the major real-time exchange functionality needed for MiFID II compliance was incorporated into this latest software release, which was seamlessly deployed on Friday, 14th…
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37 Issuers, 191 Funds Now Listed on Bats in the U.S. Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) company, and the market for exchange-traded product (ETP) trading globally, announced that besides the two new PowerShares funds, and the iShares funds, has welcomed one more issuer OppenheimerFunds to the Bats ETF Marketplace, with the listing of three…
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Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) company, and the market for exchange-traded product (ETP) trading globally, today welcomed two new iShares funds to the Bats ETF Marketplace. Their launch brings the total number of iShares funds listed on the Bats ETF Marketplace to 45, as 43rd iShares ETF was listed only three days ago. The…
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