FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that Equiti Group has appointed Chantelle Johnson to the role of Group Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). We had reported last month that Ms. Johnson had left her longtime position as CMO at OANDA. Chantelle Johnson brings a wealth of global marketing experience in rapidly growing companies within the industry. She…
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DMALINK, the emerging markets focused FX institutional ECN, today announced that Traiana’s NetLink will be used to aggregate trades on its New York and London platforms available to all qualifying participants via its prime broker, NatWest Markets. The addition of NetLink enables DMALINK clients to increase operational efficiency by aggregating trades, which provides credit efficiencies…
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KX today announced that it has added Google BigQuery integration to KX Insights, its cloud-first real-time streaming analytics platform. Customers can now gain powerful real-time insights from streaming data through KX, enriched with context from historical data sitting in Google Cloud’s highly scalable multi-cloud data warehouse. KX Insights is natively available on Google Cloud Marketplace…
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Newly public online broker Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) has announced that it has acquired shareholder communication tech specialist Say Technologies for $140 million in cash. Say bills itself as the new standard for public companies who want to connect with their retail shareholder community. Brokers that work with Say can automatically invite their customers to participate. Say…
Spotware Systems has released a new version of its cTrader Web platform. The cTrader Web 4.1 update spices up the web version of cTrader with some of the most sought-after additions for traders across Windows and Mac devices for both – cTrader Web and cTrader Copy. When it comes to cTrader Web, the addition of…
The United States National Futures Association (NFA) today announces changes in required minimum security deposits for certain Forex transactions. NFA Financial Requirements Section 12 requires Forex dealer members to collect and maintain a minimum security deposit of 2% of the notional value of transactions in ten listed major currencies and 5% of the notional value…
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Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade Systems, and First Sentier Investors, a global asset management group focused on providing high quality, long-term investment capabilities to clients, today announced that Flowlinx block liquidity search is available via FlexTRADER EMS. Flowlinx simplifies block liquidity search in Emerging and Frontier market equities. The Flowlinx integration with…
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London based Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions provider Encompass Corporation has announced the appointment of experienced financial crime compliance professional Michael Horsnell as Business Development Director. With more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, Michael has focused on areas including operations, transformation and risk and control and governance. His expertise covers…
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Effective August 23, 2021, Cboe Options Exchange (C1) will replace the current manual halt and reopening process with an automated system halt and reopening process for SPX and VIX options during Global Trading Hours (GTH) when any of the following events occur, subject to regulatory review: C1 detects a halt message from CME indicating the…
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Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today published consultation conclusions on proposals to introduce investor identification for the securities market in Hong Kong and require reporting of over-the-counter (OTC) securities transactions. Under the investor identification regime, licensed corporations and registered institutions will have to submit to The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (SEHK)…
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