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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) today announced the appointment of John Buckley as Head of Exchange Operations and Transformation. In this new role, Mr Buckley will be responsible for all of HKEX’s exchange operations, and will lead the strategic development and transformation of this part of its business. He will also lead efforts…

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After celebrating a decade in the market as a retail brokerage, ThinkMarkets has now introduced Liquidity.net, a foray into multi-asset liquidity provision aimed at servicing institutional and professional clients. Liquidity.net is a registered trading name in the UK with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and has established offices in London and Dubai. Integrating a list…

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Global FX and CFDs broker Equiti Group has announced the appointment of Waleed Saleh as Global Head of Market Research. Equiti added that its new Market Research unit has been established to deliver critical client insights and market data to inform business decisions and to steer the company’s global growth strategy and initiatives. Waleed Saleh…

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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub, the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank Negara Malaysia, Monetary Authority of Singapore, and South African Reserve Bank will join forces to test the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for international settlements. Led by the Innovation Hub’s Singapore Centre, Project Dunbar aims to develop prototype shared…

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that, on September 1, 2021, Glenn Arcaro pleaded guilty in federal court for his participation in a massive conspiracy involving BitConnect, a cryptocurrency investment scheme, which defrauded investors from the United States and abroad of over $2 billion. The BitConnect scheme is believed to be the largest cryptocurrency fraud…

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Some normalcy returned to institutional FX trading in August 2021 in what has been anything but a normal year, with the sector seeing its typical seasonal swoon during the summer. After July saw a slight (4%) drop in institutional FX trading at leading eFX ECNs and platforms, August repeated the trick with the usual summer…

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Electronic trading major Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) has just posted its key performance metrics for August 2021. The broker reported 2.170 million Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) for August 2021, 24% higher than prior year and 8% lower than prior month. Ending client equity amounted to $364.6 billion, 53% higher than prior year and…

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More UK consumers are in line for compensation, as the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) today announced the latest default declarations. The body declared nine firms in default in June and July 2021. People who have dealt with any of the nine financial services firms listed below, and believe they are owed money as a…

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ICE Futures U.S. has posted a disciplinary notice regarding Aspire Commodities, LLC. The company has agreed to pay a $700,000 fine to settle charges about ICE rule violations. The Exchange rules concerned in this settlement are: Rule 6.20(b) – Position Limits, Conditional Limits and Position Accountability for Energy Contracts and Oil Contracts No Person may…

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Digital infrastructure company Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX) has announced that it has extended Platform Equinix into the strategic Indian market, following the completion of the acquisition of the INDIA operations of GPX Global Systems, Inc. The US$161 million all-cash transaction includes a fiber-connected campus in MUMBAI with two data centers. Equinix’s expansion into India will unlock…

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