Noel Quinn, the Group Chief Executive at HSBC, commented: I’m encouraged by our start to the year. Our strategy is on track, with organic growth and good momentum across most parts of the Group. While profits were down on last year’s first quarter due to market impacts on Wealth revenue and a more normalized level…
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Gregor Pottmeyer, the Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Börse AG, said: The first quarter of 2022 was considerably above our expectations. All three growth components of our business, secular, cyclical and M&A net revenue growth, contributed equally to the extraordinarily good result. We are, therefore, currently expecting to exceed our guidance for the current financial…
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Reporting on separate business verticals NAGA announced that it is now planning to report its financial results separately – from its neo brokerage, crypto trading, and payments platform, starting in the second quarter. Bilski commented: All our platforms are by now live and have a clear monetization model in place. Now it's all about scaling …
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Ian Lowitt, Marex CEO, commented: We are proud of these results, which reflect a strong organic performance as we continue to drive forward our growth initiatives, diversifying our business by adding products to our service segments and expanding geographically. These more than offset a headwind from very low interest rates. Although the current macroeconomic environment…
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Cornerstone noted that excluding the contribution from acquisitions, the unaudited revenue stood at £888,000. This figure has surpassed the six-month revenue reported by the Group of £837,000 for the first half of 2021. Additionally, revenues generated by clients that Cornerstone served directly increased in the first quarter of 2022 to 77%, compared to 28% for…
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The net interest income also fell 8% to $282 million, due to a drop in securities lending activity but was offset by gains on margin lending and segregated cash balances. However, the other income decreased by $159 million to a loss of $39 million. Pre-tax profit margin came in at 61%, compared to Q1 2021…
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Daily trading volumes also continued to increase steadily in Q1. The highest daily volume was registered on 8th March when more than 23,000 trades were placed amid heightened market activity linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Spectrum Markets reported record growth last year with nearly doubled its trading volume. The company’s turnover reached €1.35 billion…
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Customer growth and expansion During the first three months of the year, the London-listed broker onboarded 33,740 new customers. This is marginally higher than the previous quarter, when the number of customers fell but 62% lower than the Q1 2021. Plus500 also reported 176,642 active traders on its platform. The average revenue per user increased…
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David Jones, Chief Market Strategist at Capital.com, said: There's nothing like volatility to bring traders to markets, and we obviously had that by the bucket load in the first quarter of the year. Gold and oil were notably active markets as Russia invaded Ukraine - at its highest, oil was up 70% for the year…
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SGX sees growth in securities turnover Securities market turnover value rose 21%MoM in March, reaching S$35.7 billion. This also lifted the turnover for the last three months, from January-to-March by 26% compared to previous quarter to S$91 billion. The bellwether Straits Times Index (STI) rose 5.1% in last month to 3,408.52. It was Asia-Pacific’s strongest…
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