Prior to CLSA Securities, Gang was head of M&A and General Industrials at ICBC International. He has also held senior positions at Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong and London. His investment banking career started at Goldman Sachs. Company Chairman Mike McTighe said: Following an extensive, externally facilitated search I…
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Other highlights of the Group’s report include: Q1 FY21 revenue in the Core Markets reached £170.8 million, up by 56% on the prior year (Q1 FY20: £109.4 million). Performance of the Retail client base in UK and Europe was strong, with growth delivered in both revenue per client and number of active clients. Q1 FY21…
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International multi-asset broker HotForex has expanded its offering with the launch of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and direct market access (DMA) stocks, exclusive to the company’s MT5 platform. Traders on HotForex can now benefit from CFDs on DMA Stocks and the direct market live pricing. Unlike CFDs on Stocks, which are not directly hedged in the underlying…
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Mike McTighe, IG Group Chairman, commented: When I look back at the repositioning of IG that has taken place over the last 12 months, it’s been an incredible period of both positive progress and continued strategic development. IG is now better placed than ever for the opportunities in front of us. We’ve learned some…
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The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs, began developing common taxonomy for stablecoins which will also cover crypto-assets more broadly. The development of taxonomy will create common regulatory classifications of the sablecoins in response to their recent growth before they fragment any further. The WFE asked the Financial Stability…
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Outlook IG Group expects maintaining the momentum around the Core Markets and the portfolio of Significant Opportunities and to contain the progress it made in FY20. The targets remain the same: revenue growth in Core Markets of 3-5% over the medium term, and an incremental £100 million of revenue by the end of FY22 relating to the Significant…
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The institutional unit of FXCM Group, FXCM Pro, announced its has teamed up with trading technology provider Tradesocio. The two companies collaborated to provide banks, brokers, asset managers and other buy-side institutions with a full fintech solution that combines Tradesocio’s digital investment and trading technology with FXCM Pro’s institutional liquidity and global scale. Tradesocio’s client base…
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Bhasin has held senior positions in AT&T such as head of its Asia Pacific’s managed network services business and President of AT&T Japan Ltd. He also served as senior managing director of Japan Telecom Company Limited. Company Chairman Mike McTighe said: Following an extensive, externally facilitated search I am delighted to welcome Rakesh to the…
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The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) announced the sale of UDC Finance, its asset finance business in New Zealand, for NZ$762 million to Shinsei Bank Limited. The sale is inline with ANZ’s strategy to simplify its business and follows a review of UDC Finance. The purchase price represents a price-to-book ratio of 1.2x…
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Net trading revenue in Q4 FY20 is now estimated to be approximately £259 million (Q4 FY19: £117.9 million), with full year net trading revenue anticipated to be approximately £649 million (FY19: £476.9 million). IG Group will announce its full year results for FY20 on 23 July 2020. Read more: Ben Hemington joins IG Group as…
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