Tagged: trading

March 24, 2023 @ 7:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With signs that strikes may be abating for the time being, new data from small business lender iwoca reveals that UK SMEs have “lost out on 680,000 days of trading per month, due to industrial action.” Cumulatively, this amounts “to four million days of trading… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 4:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CF Global Trading, a global firm specializing in outsourced trading on an agency basis for a variety of asset classes including equities, listed derivatives and fixed income. The transaction is… Read More

March 19, 2023 @ 7:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Okcoin is pleased to announce “the appointment, subject to regulatory approval, of Erald Ghoos as General Manager of Okcoin Europe, based in Malta, and David Renold as Chief Executive Officer of OKG Payments, Okcoin’s Ireland-based affiliate.” OKG Payments plans “to provide permitted products and services… Read More

March 17, 2023 @ 9:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Inc (NASDAQ:HOOD) has reportedly decided to make an exception to its short position ban for customers who had placed winning “puts” against failed lender Signature Bank (Nasdaq: SBNY), the FT revealed on Thursday (March 16, 2023). Put options are essentially contracts that provide a… Read More

March 16, 2023 @ 6:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

VirtuSwap has reportedly integrated PARSIQ’s Tsunami API for real-time synchronization and automation of (decentralized exchange) DEX trading pools. This should help with enhancing efficiency for traders and Liquidity Providers (LPs). VirtuSwap is described as “a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Polygon network.” Their unique… Read More

March 15, 2023 @ 3:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CQG, a global provider of high-performance technology solutions for market makers, traders, brokers, commercial hedgers and exchanges, announced a strategic partnership with global Fintech, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE: BR) that will “integrate the two firms’ Execution Management System (EMS) and Order Management System (OMS)… Read More

March 13, 2023 @ 12:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trumid, a Fintech that operates a fixed-income electronic trading platform, has recently announced “record” trade volume, market share, and user participation for the month of February. February Highlights shared by Trumid as follows: Reported average daily volume (ADV) more than doubled year-over-year to a record… Read More

March 8, 2023 @ 6:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TS Imagine, the global, cross-asset provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for sophisticated investors and their teams, announced the broad availability of its newest cross-asset class, real-time risk platform: RiskSmart X. RiskSmart X is a SaaS solution “designed for prime brokerage and risk… Read More

February 26, 2023 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FalconX, which claims to be the “most reliable” digital assets prime brokerage for the world’s leading institutions, announced expansion of its services into Singapore. Matt Long has “joined FalconX as General Manager and Ave King as Chief Compliance Officer, both based in Singapore.” Alongside these… Read More

February 24, 2023 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CitiFX has consolidated its portfolio of eFX trading platforms for corporate and professional investor clients. Velocity 3.0, the new single dealer is “an operating system that delivers CitiFX Pulse, Citi Velocity Trading, Citi Velocity Research and CitiFX Click.” The platform “rebuilds CitiFX’s client user interface… Read More

February 23, 2023 @ 2:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, and Eurex Frankfurt AG, the European derivatives exchange, announced that they have “entered into a commercial partnership in which TT will offer direct access to the Eurex EnLight… Read More

February 21, 2023 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) launched a consultation on the proposed requirements “for operators of virtual asset trading platforms.” Under a new licensing regime to take effect on 1 June 2023, all centralized virtual asset trading platforms “carrying on business in Hong Kong or… Read More

February 12, 2023 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cowbell, the provider of cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), announced a partnership with Millennial Shift Technologies, a custom branded e-trading platform suite. The partnership will deliver Cowbell’s cyber insurance programs, Cowbell Prime 100 and 250, on Millennial Shift’s e-trading broker platform, mFactor…. Read More

February 7, 2023 @ 4:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tax season is a “dreaded” time of the year for many — especially crypto users, according to an update from Binance. Scouring a spreadsheet and computing all your transactions, gains, and losses throughout the past year can be, well, “taxing.” For day traders, who normally… Read More

February 7, 2023 @ 10:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gate.io, which claims to be one of the world’s “leading” digital asset trading platforms, has chosen Coinfirm, a key player focused on analytics and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions for the blockchain industry, “as one of its key AML/CFT partners.” The partnership will “give Gate.io access… Read More

February 6, 2023 @ 9:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Dexalot has launched on an Avalanche Subnet, marking a new milestone in “the evolution of decentralized trading protocols.” The Dexalot Subnet aims “to replicate the user experience of a CEX without compromising on decentralization and transparency.” Its team has “spent months building… Read More

January 18, 2023 @ 5:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trakx, an emerging global Fintech company providing thematic Crypto Tradable Indices through its registered Tier-1 trading platform, announced the launch of three new indices named: Growth, Balanced and Conservative. The new indices are “designed to meet the increasing demand for risk-adjusted crypto indices from high-net-worth… Read More

January 17, 2023 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FNZ, the global wealth management platform, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Fondsdepot Bank, one of the leading independent platforms for trading and custody in Germany. The acquisition represents “a further investment by FNZ in the German market and will bring together the complementary… Read More

January 10, 2023 @ 8:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To provide an integrated framework that links user interfaces across products, global Fintech platform, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), announced it will utilize Glue42, a software provider that delivers integrated desktop experiences to financial institutions globally, “to deliver a seamless trading experience.” This move “brings… Read More

January 2, 2023 @ 1:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With FTX’s former CEO now looking at the possibility of life in prison, the past six months of the ongoing crypto crisis “have left the popularity of digital currency at a new low,” according to an update shared with CI. However, professional exchange CryptoKG is… Read More