Exegy Adds Support for Virtu Financial’s Systematic Internaliser and IOI feeds
Exegy, Inc. a leading provider of managed services and technology for low-latency financial market data, has today announced the availability of new feed handlers for Virtu Financial's Systematic Internaliser (SI) and Indications of Interest (IOI) data feeds, enabling transparent access to Virtu's liquidity in...
World’s Fastest Man Becomes XM’s Ambassador
We announce with great pride that today, 14th November 2016, XM has commenced its partnership with the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, who has become XM’s official Brand Ambassador.
Known as the fastest man ever to be timed, the Jamaican nine-time Olympic gold...
TRADExpress Trading System live in Australia
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) launched its new derivatives trading platform on March 20th 2017. The technology powering the ASX Trade24 trading service has been replaced with a solution from Cinnober, built on the flexible and functionality-rich TRADExpress Trading System. The highly scalable solution...
Hashtoro limits BTC mining contracts due to high demand
Cloud mining provider Hashtoro has announced that it will be limiting its Bitcoin contracts. At the moment, the company offers three plans: 1-year, 2-years and unlimited. Until now only minimum hashrate had been fixed, now the top bar is set at 75 TH/s, 46...
Boat Services appoints Per Lovén as Commercial Director
Boat Services hires former Head of International Corporate Strategy at Liquidnet for the newly developed role of Commercial Director.
Per Lovén has spent the last six years at Liquidnet as the Head of International Corporate Strategy where his focus was to create and deliver corporate...
From Brazil to Kuwait — Brokers continue switching to MetaTrader 5
Migration of global brokers to MetaTrader 5 is entering a new round. Recently, a number of notable market players have announced the launch of the multi-asset platform with support for hedging. Among them are the international Forex and CFD broker IFCMarkets, Brazilian ModalMais, STP broker...
Hedge Fund Adviser Charged for Inadequate Controls to Prevent Insider Trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that hedge fund advisory firm Deerfield Management Company L.P. has agreed to pay more than $4.6 million to settle charges that it failed to establish, maintain, and enforce policies and procedures reasonably designed to prevent the misuse...
Investor Compensation Fund for Falcon Brokers Ltd Clients
Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 24 of Directive DI144-2007-15 of 2015 and further to a relevant decision of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC’), as per its announcement of 31/10/2016, the Investor Compensation Fund for IF Clients (‘ICF’) announces the commencement of...
CFTC’s Division of Clearing and Risk Extends No-Action Relief for Shanghai Clearing House
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR) today issued a no-action letter extending the relief provided to the Shanghai Clearing House (SHCH) in CFTC Letter 16-56, which expires May 31, 2017. The extension will last until the earlier...
It all Starts to Make Sense!
A painful baptism
Being an FX trader in a bank is a unique experience that cannot be fully understood by market users who have the luxury of a constant stream of prices and a comfort of only trading when the conditions are right.
Imagine being forced...
