The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning regarding Coinburp Limited. The regulator has become aware of promotional material indicating that Coinburp plans to launch the CoinBurp $BURP Token and Initial DEX Offering on Monday 26 July 2021. The FCA warns that the firm does not yet hold full FCA Registration under the…
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Cboe Europe, the pan-European exchange operator and subsidiary of Cboe Global Markets, Inc, today announced that it has received the necessary regulatory approvals to launch Cboe Europe Derivatives, a new Amsterdam-based futures and options market, on 6 September, 2021. Cboe Europe B.V. (Cboe NL), Cboe Europe’s subsidiary in Amsterdam, is now authorized to operate a…
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Bridgepoint announces that its entire issued ordinary share capital, consisting of 823,268,774 ordinary shares of £0.00005 each (the “Ordinary Shares”), has today been admitted to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market for listed securities under the ticker “BPT”….
Following a successful test phase, Eurex Clearing has gone live with its clearing service for deliverable cross currency swaps and OTC FX. Commerzbank has joined J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley as Clearing Members to enable the completion of testing and go-live of the service. For Eurex and its parent company, Deutsche Börse, the launch once…
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IEX Cloud, the independent financial data delivery platform owned by IEX Group, Inc., announces that it has joined the Pyth network, a blockchain platform that will provide trusted and verifiable market data to a new generation of decentralized applications. This partnership will include IEX Cloud providing real-time market data derived from IEX Exchange to a…
After paying $128 million to buy BidFX last year, Singapore Exchange (SGX) has announced that it is further extending its reach into the FX over-the-counter (OTC) space by acquiring the single source and direct-to-market FX trading platform, MaxxTrader. SGX will acquire MaxxTrader from FlexTrade Systems, a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems,…
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Australia financial regulator ASIC has taken another step to pull closer to its European counterparts, in terms of what it allows to be offered to retail traders. Until recently Australia was the last “properly regulated” nation that still allowed retail traders of forex and CFDs to use near-unlimited leverage, but that was nixed as of…
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The European Commission today announces that it has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the acquisition of joint control over a newly created joint venture by IHS Markit Ltd and CME Group Inc. The joint venture will consist of IHSM’s over-the-counter derivatives and foreign currency trade processing business (MarkitSERV) and of CME Group’s OTC derivatives…
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Leading Swiss online trading firm Swissquote is offering its clients to make the most of the vast financial universe via a new “Investment Inspiration” widget. The solution offers traders a daily and personalised selection of stocks, based on their trading activity. «Investment Inspiration» is available on Swissquote’s eTrading platform. Swissquote’s trading platform offers thousands of…
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Shares of UK online trading leader IG Group (LON:IGG) traded up by more than 4% on Thursday, after IG reported second-half 2021 results (the company has a May 31 fiscal year end), as well of course as FY2021 numbers. IG’s figures seemed to please the market, with second-half revenues up by 5% over record 1H…
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