CME Group Announces Copper Futures Open Interest Record, Surpassing 300,000 Contracts Milestone
CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced Copper futures open interest surpassed 300,000 contracts for the first time on Monday, February 13, 2017. Copper ended the trading session with a total of 300,996 contracts open interest, surpassing the previous...
Tower Trading Group Selects OptionsCity for Trading Software and Risk Management Services
OptionsCity Software, a global provider of futures and options trading software, announced today that Tower Trading Group, headquartered in London and supporting over 200 active traders, has selected the Metro platform as its preferred platform for options trading and market-making. In addition, the Tower...
IC Markets Adds PayPal to its Accepted Payment Methods
Australia's largest True ECN foreign exchange provider, International Capital Markets Pty Ltd (IC Markets)., has added PayPal to its list of accepted payment methods. The addition of PayPal as another funding method will allow IC Markets’ clients to send and receive funds via one...
Cleaner, greener energy and the future of oil
Cleaner, greener energy and the future of oil
When it comes to the energy sector, things have certainly begun to change. Wind and solar energy sources are rapidly increasing, and US President Joe Biden aims to invest a huge sum of money in rectifying climate...
Australian financial regulator and OSC sign agreement to support innovative businesses
Innovative fintech companies in Australia and Ontario will be able to draw on support from the combined resources of their financial regulators as they seek to operate in the others’ market, under a new agreement.
Under the agreement, signed in Toronto this week, the Australian...
Tickmill Expands its Global Footprint with an FCA UK Regulated Broker
We are proud to announce that our UK entity, Tmill UK Limited, is now licensed and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), under registration number 717270.
The FCA is a financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom, within which the most prominent financial services...
CFTC Orders INTL FCStone Financial Inc. and FCStone Merchant Services LLC to Pay Penalty for Unlawful Exchange for Related Position Transactions
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order filing and settling charges against FCStone Merchant Services LLC (FCStone Merchant) for entering into multiple noncompetitive trades and against INTL FCStone Financial Inc. (FCStone Financial), a registered Futures Commission Merchant based in Chicago, Illinois, for reporting non-bona fide...
Federal Court Orders Jeffrey Slemmer, Christian Dorrian, Adam Roth, and Their Florida-Based Companies to Pay over $5.4 Million in Restitution and a Penalty
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge William P. Dimitrouleas of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida entered a Consent Order against Defendants Jeffrey Slemmer of Acton, Massachusetts, Christian Dorrian of Boynton Beach, Florida, Adam Roth of Boca Raton, Florida, and their former respective...
Universa Expects to Raise over $100 Million in the Upcoming ICO
At the Crypto Bazar forum, with holds its focus on developing and regulating the crypto-currency market in Russia, the creator of the Universa platform Alexander Borodich, who is the former top manager of the largest Russian IT company Mail.ru Group and now the head of the...
ICAP Energy appoints Kieran Walsh as Director of European Agricultural and Soft Commodities to launch new European broking desk
ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, announces today that it has appointed Kieran Walsh as Director of European Agricultural and Soft Commodities to launch and manage a new European agricultural commodities desk. Kieran...