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IG says 15 clients have filed Swiss franc cases with UK ombudsman
September 9th, 2015
Around 15 IG Group clients have filed cases with Britain’s Financial Ombudsman over losses incurred during a surge in the value of Swiss Franc in January, the online trading platform’s interim chief executive told Reuters on Tuesday. IG has ...
ICAP invests in Abide Financial
September 7th, 2015
Strategic investment made through Euclid Opportunities, ICAP’s early stage FinTech funding business ICAP plc, has issued an announcement today to inform that it has made a strategic investment in Abide Financial, a market-leading global regulatory reporting specialist. The investment ...
Further evidence that new rules could threaten market liquidity in Europe
August 26th, 2015
A preliminary research report by three professors at the Toulouse School of Economics has raised concerns over the impact impending regulations could have on market liquidity. The researchers used data from Euronext to investigate the behaviour of liquidity suppliers during the ...
CySec informs that decided to withdraw the suspension of a CIF
July 29th, 2015
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySec’), has issued a press release to inform that on its meeting dated 20 July 2015, decided to withdraw, as from 27 July 2015, the suspension of the CIF’s authorisation of ‘Asset Management Advisory ...
Bloomberg Receives Multilateral Trading Facility Authorisation from FCA UK
July 27th, 2015
Bloomberg Trading Facility Limited (BTF), an affiliate of Bloomberg LP, announces that it has received authorisation from the UK Financial Conduct Authority to operate a multilateral trading facility (MTF). The MTF draws on Bloomberg’s established and successful trading venue capabilities ...
Linx-Networks teams with VoxSmart to strengthen mobile call recording service
July 16th, 2015
Specialist City trading floor systems integrator, Linx-Networks, is to work with market-leading mobile call recording experts, VoxSmart, to provide trading hubs and solutions that meet the tough new European-wide trading regulations called MiFID II. The new regulations, which become ...
Boutique Asset Managers Focus on European Equities Thanks to Regulations
July 15th, 2015
More regulations are driving smaller niche institutional investors to the European equity markets That’s according to the latest research from Tabb Group, an equity market consultancy, who reported that boutique asset managers are increasingly losing their home country bias ...
Bats Plans Block-Trading Service to Prepare for Dark-Pool Rules
July 14th, 2015
Bats Chi-X Europe will unveil a block-trading initiative within months as markets prepare for European Union rules that will restrict dark-pool trading. “We fully intend to facilitate large-in-scale trading and we will be unveiling highly competitive initiatives in the ...
Winners and losers emerge from fragmented FX swap rules
June 30th, 2015
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has frequently warned that market fragmentation will continue and market transparency will be damaged as US and European regulators fail to reconcile their FX rule sets. Disharmony is most evident in relation ...
Fidessa launches new order analytics service for derivatives
June 8th, 2015
Continues rollout of derivatives algo capabilities Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced the launch of a powerful new order analytics service for its derivatives community that brings greater precision to the control and measurement of derivatives algos. Order ...
