BGC Partners Acquires Besso Insurance Group

BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners", "BGC", or "the Company"), a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Besso Insurance Group Limited ("Besso"), an independent Lloyd's of London...

Richard Olsen is the Forex Person of the Year 2016

The Forex Person of the year 2016 is Richard Olsen, founder and CEO of Lykke and co-founder of Oanda. Olsen developed a blockchain-based P2P zero-commission trading platform at Lykke, a Swiss fintech startup founded in 2014. In words of its founder, “I wanted to turn...

Nomura Announces Sponsorship Agreement with Japanese Professional Golfer Hideki Matsuyama

Nomura Holdings, Inc. today announced a three-year sponsorship with Japanese professional golfer Hideki Matsuyama, effective January 1, 2017. Mr. Matsuyama is currently a major contender in the United States PGA Tour. He is the first Asian golfer to win a World Golf Championships event and...

CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad Announces Resignation as Chairman

Chairman Timothy G. Massad today said he has tendered to President Obama his resignation as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, effective on January 20, 2017. Mr. Massad issued the following statement: “For the past two and a half years, I’ve had the...

Kraken launches Monero trading

Today Kraken is launching support for trading Monero (XMR). Monero is one of the leading cryptocurrencies that has seen huge 40x market cap growth in 2016 and trades with high volume and liquidity. Monero is built on the core principles of privacy, decentralization, open...

The Spanish Stock Exchange Traded €652.9 Billion in 2016

The trading volume in December reached €48.9billion The ETF trading volume in 2016 totalled €6 billion The number of contracts registered in MEFF in December was the highest in 2016, at 6.4 million New issues admitted to trading on the Corporate Debt market in December...

JAMES RODRÍGUEZ, an International Soccer Star, Becomes a LIBERTEX Brand Ambassador

James Rodríguez, an offensive midfielder for the Colombia national soccer team, has become the brand ambassador for Libertex, a top financial markets trading platform. "The image of James Rodriguez, one of the most successful and dynamic soccer players in the world, perfectly matches the image...

NEX Group Plc Completion Of Transaction And Share

Further to the announcements by ICAP plc ("ICAP") on 11 November 2015 and subsequently and the announcements by NEX on 6 December 2016 and subsequently relating to the disposal of NEX's global hybrid voice broking and information business to Tullett Prebon plc (now renamed...

SFC bans Lam Yuk Wai for life

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Mr Lam Yuk Wai, a former staff of HSBC Broking Securities (Asia) Limited, HSBC Broking Futures (Asia) Limited, HSBC Broking Futures (Hong Kong) Limited and HSBC Broking Forex (Asia) Limited (collectively, HSBC Broking), from re-entering the...

PTMC released license control

PTMC news release Dear friends! We have an important news for you: from the beginning of 2017, PTMC platform starts using a system of licenses. We understand that this may seem a little unexpected, but it is logical step towards the further development of trading terminal....

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