Tagged: trading

October 2, 2024 @ 9:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the derivatives marketplace, announced that its Bitcoin Friday futures (BFF) have launched and are available for trading. 31,498 contracts traded across two different contract weeks. The first trade, a block, took place on Sunday, September 29 and was executed by Galaxy and Marex…. Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 2:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

eToro, the trading and investing platform, has entered into an agreement to acquire the Australian investing app Spaceship in a deal worth up to $80 million AUD. The acquisition will strengthen eToro’s footprint in “a key market for the business while also broadening its product… Read More

September 16, 2024 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance is enhancing the trading experience with First-in-Market Token Unlock and a vesting schedule. Integration of CoinMarketCap data into Binance allows users “to conveniently view token unlock schedule and make more informed decisions.” Binance, the global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by… Read More

September 2, 2024 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TS Imagine, the global, cross-asset provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for financial institutions, is pleased to announce the global availability of Platform 3.0, encompassing the culmination of three years of strategic research, development and investment. This thorough modernization of TS Imagine products… Read More

August 25, 2024 @ 10:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca’s local currency trading API now supports limit, stop, and stop limit for both nominal and fractional order types. Additionally, Local Currency Trading now reportedly “offers extended hours trading to further open financial services to everyone on the planet.” Local Currency Trading API enables businesses… Read More

August 22, 2024 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Traders may now enhance their experience by leveraging trading solutions via the latest Alpaca and QuantConnect integration. Alpaca is pleased to announce its integration with QuantConnect, an algorithmic trading platform “chosen by thousands of professional traders and quants.” Using this integration, Alpaca users can “design,… Read More

August 10, 2024 @ 3:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a leap forward for financial trading platforms, Finatechs unveils its latest innovation: a next-generation trading platform designed to empower traders worldwide with superior market access. This platform combines technology with user-friendly functionalities, “redefining success in trading.” Traders on the Finatechs platform can explore “an… Read More

July 25, 2024 @ 9:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CB Payments Limited (CBPL) has been fined £3,503,546 by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for repeatedly breaching a requirement that “prevented the firm from offering services to high-risk customers.” CBPL is part of the Coinbase Group, which operates a cryptoasset trading platform that is… Read More

July 24, 2024 @ 6:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

American retail investors are significantly more likely to ignore ESG (environmental, social & governance) factors than consider them when investing, according to data from the latest Retail Investor Beat (RIB) from trading and investing platform eToro. In a study of 1,000 American retail investors, just… Read More

July 22, 2024 @ 12:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks Off Exchange enables businesses across the world to trade on centralized exchanges without introducing counterparty risk. Today, they’re sharing that Bybit is the newest exchange to integrate with Off Exchange. Bybit, a crypto exchange, joins Deribit, with further integrations to follow. These include BIT,… Read More

July 9, 2024 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca is pleased to announce the launch of Alpaca Elite, which is described as a solution designed specifically for sophisticated traders like you. Alpaca Elite reportedly provides “a cost-effective, advanced algo trading experience with white-glove account support.” Whether you’re an individual trader exploring advanced algorithmic trading… Read More

June 25, 2024 @ 8:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ION, a global enabler of trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting, announces the successful integration of its fixed-income solutions with XTP Execution, extending client access to a range of futures markets for trading and market data. In today’s highly competitive and… Read More

June 22, 2024 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the derivatives marketplace, announced its foreign exchange (FX) futures reached an all-time single-day volume record of 3.26 million contracts (equivalent to $314B notional) on June 12. The previous record of 3.15 million contracts ($296B notional) was “set on March 8, 2023.” In addition,… Read More

June 21, 2024 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trulioo, an identity platform with proven global coverage for person and business verification, today announced a strategic partnership with Capital.com, a retail trading platform, to support its global expansion with streamlined, convenient onboarding. Capital.com, whose client trading volumes “exceeded $1 trillion in 2023, is one… Read More

June 16, 2024 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Further building on its GenAI focus in the fixed income market, LTX, an AI-powered corporate bond trading platform backed by global Fintech Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR), announced GenAI-powered List Trading functionality. The new feature allows users “to leverage GPT technology to generate and execute… Read More

June 10, 2024 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is introducing the Coinbase Advanced Trade Go SDK. The Advanced Trade Go SDK from Coinbase is described as being “a flexible sample application that allows customers to automate their crypto trading strategies on Coinbase Advanced.” This SDK is built on… Read More

June 3, 2024 @ 6:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Talos, the provider of institutional trading technology for digital assets, announced the acquisition of Skolem, a technology provider that enables institutional investors to access decentralized finance (DeFi) markets safely and effectively. The acquisition of Skolem will enhance Talos’s existing platforms “by enabling clients to incorporate… Read More

May 24, 2024 @ 8:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

VersiFi, the digital asset trading and lending firm, announced it has acquired Ather Digital for an undisclosed amount. The deal, which closed in May, bolsters VersiFi’s suite of trading technology “to include direct market access (DMA), algorithmic trading and smart order routing (SOR).” Ather Digital… Read More

May 22, 2024 @ 6:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, which claims to be the leading derivatives marketplace, announced that it will continue its expansion into the fixed income markets by launching repo on corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) on BrokerTec Quote, its dealer-to-client (D2C) request-for-quote (RFQ) trading platform. U.S. corporate bonds… Read More

May 14, 2024 @ 11:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crossover Markets, a digital asset technology firm focused on meeting the unique liquidity requirements of institutions, and Talos, the provider of institutional technology for trading digital assets, announced that Crossover’s CROSSx institutional crypto trading venue has been integrated with the Talos trading platform, joining Talos’s… Read More