FD Technologies also saw a strong performance by its divisions KX and First Derivative. KX’s revenue reached £80.2 million, up by 25% from the previous year. The firm also noted that 72% of the revenue came from recurring clients. The First Derivative segment generated £174.3 million, demonstrating a substantial increase of 18%. Both divisions exceeded…
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Executed over several days in the first week of February this year in order to limit market slippage, Tesla made a $1.5 billion bitcoin purchase which has now been revealed by Block to have been brokered by the cryptocurrency platform, Coinbase. Up until this announcement it had been unclear who had facilitated the significant purchase,…
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David Collins, Managing Director at First Derivatives said: We are delighted to achieve the AWS Advanced Consulting Partner status. We leverage the power of AWS to help customers modernize processes and derive additional value from their data. We look forward to a continued strengthening of our relationship with AWS. As it stands, FD already has…
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced raising civil proceedings in Federal Court against Union Standard International Group Pty Ltd (trading as usgfx) and its former corporate authorised representatives, Maxi EFX Global AU Pty Ltd (trading as EuropeFX) and BrightAU Capital Pty Ltd (trading as TradeFred). The UK Financial Conduct Authority announced making the…
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Preston, who will take the past as CFO next year, was formerly Chief Financial Officer of Independent News & Media plc and at OVO Energy Retail, having spent the early part of his career in senior finance roles at Tesco, including Group Finance Director, Europe. He was became Deputy Chief Financial Officer at FD in…
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CLS, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has released its operating metrics for August 2020. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.649 trillion, down 0.5 percent from USD1.657 trillion in July 2020. Global technology provider First Derivatives announced the appointment of Steve Fisher as a Non-Executive Director of…
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Fisher has also occupied senior technology development positions within telecoms and networking, such as Apple and AT&T Labs. He brings valuable for FD’s growth strategy combination of enterprise technology development and leadership expertise in software platforms, software as a service and cloud. Fisher’s expertise in the development and scaling of enterprise software, in particular will…
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Alan Coad commented: It’s a terrific time to be joining FD. Over the past decade, I have had a front-row seat for many of the transformational changes being driven in tier one enterprises across various industries. Data has now come to the fore as a differentiator and source of new value for many of these…
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FD’s strategy for business growth will be supported by the appointment of Seifert. His board sector experience will assist the company’s efforts to advance the adoption of the Group’s Kx streaming analytics technology platform in sectors adjacent to and outside of its capital markets heritage. Thomas Seifert commented: FD is an exciting company with market-leading…
Read moreAfter last year's acquisitions of Prelytix, ActivateClients and Affinity Systems, provider of software and consulting services First Derivatives plc (LON:FDP) today announced one more acquisition – that of QuantumKDB (UK) Limited. FD said that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of Quantum for total consideration of up to £2.2 million, including initial consideration of…
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