September 23rd is only weeks away. For those that missed it, it is the regulatory approved launch date for the Bakkt crypto exchange, the first of its kind – it will be “state-of-the-art; it will offer daily and monthly futures contract that settle “in kind”; and it will be fully regulated. What is that you…
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August 28th, a day that might go down in history books to denote when Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume, began its lending services, while at the same moment it came perilously close to crossing a major compliance land in the sand. The firm’s outspoken and charismatic leader and CEO, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao,…
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Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has released its trading volumes report for the month of July 2019. You can see the highlights below: Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 75,426 ( - 17.9% MoM / - 32.0% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 3,428. 項目 July 2019…
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Euronext announced that it has received clearance from Norway’s Ministry of Finance to acquire up to 100% of Oslo Børs VPS’s capital, as applied for. Euronext has already confirmed its intention to complete the transaction by the end of June 2019. Back in December 2018 Euronext raised its commitment to 50.6% of Oslo Børs VPS…
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LMAX Digital, part of the LMAX Exchange Group, just announced that the volatility over the last few days has seen the exchange hit new highs of over $400m in daily volumes (or over $600m this weekend alone), with May set to surpass April (monthly volumes of $2.2 billion) as the best month for the exchange.…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has earlier this week released its volume report for the month of April. Total trading volume across Moscow Exchange’s markets was RUB 73.8 trln in April 2019. The growth leaders were bond (+24.3%), GCC repo (+22.2%), commodity derivatives (+18.4%) and CCP repo (+12.5%) markets. The complete report as shown on Moscow Exchange's…
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Euronext announced earlier this week that it has extended its Oslo Børs VPS Holding ASA’s outstanding shares acquisition offer. The pan-European exchange will continue to receive and accept acceptances of the offer up to 31 May 2019. All other terms of its offer as revised remain unchanged. Back in December 2018 Euronext raised its commitment…
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eToro CEO Yoni Assia announced yesterday at Paris Blockchain Week the launch of eToroX’s crypto exchange and a range of financial instruments, including eight fiat-stablecoins. The exchange is managed by eToroX (eToro’s blockchain group) - one of the first companies that received regulatory approval back in December 2018 as a DLT provider by the Gibraltar…
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Deutsche Börse Group announced today that it has launched a brand new market data product named Eurex Order by Order Futures + Options. The launch aims to make available the entire visible Eurex order book for both futures and options. So far, this depth of market data has only been available for futures. Eurex Order…
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Euronext, the pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, has just announced trading volumes for March 2019. Cash trading The average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book dropped 13% YoY to €7,724 million, but rose 5.6% from the previous month. The average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book for Q1 2019…
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