Rick Steves
Senior Reporter, Regulation and Fintech
Rick Steves has seen business and economics through many lenses. He joined the financial services industry in 2009, and has been a financial journalist since 2011. He holds a degree in Business Administration and has experience producing real-time news, from both buy-side and sell-side, as well as for retail traders, brokers and service providers. Steves' work has appeared in a variety of online publications including FX Street, NewsBTC, FinanceFeeds, and The Industry Spread. Rick has great interest in the dynamics of the trading industry. The never-ending clash between technology, economics, regulation, and more importantly, the people.
August 2021
Religare Broking Launches US Stocks for Investors In India
Religare Broking has partnered with Vested Finance to introduce foreign stock markets on its broking platform for Indian customers.
Stock Exchange of Thailand Goes Big on Data: SMART Marketplace
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has launched an online data platform to help investors analyze and make investment decisions more efficiently.
Eurex to Launch Futures on MSCI Brazil
The firm addresses growing demand for investment and trading instruments focused on the LatAm region.
Solidatus Deployed In UK Public Sector In The Wake of Pandemic
The British Business Bank, the UK's business development bank, has selected Solidatus to enhance its data governance and data lineage capabilities.
ANZ Promotes Farhan Faruqui to Chief Financial Officer
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, also known as ANZ, has announced the appointment of Farhan Faruqui as Chief Financial Officer.
Refinitiv Integrates GIACT’s EPIC Platform And World Check for Enhanced KYC
Refinitiv has bundled the EPIC Platform from GIACT and World-Check to be accessible together via a single API.
Broadridge Welcomes UBS to Its Distributed Ledger Repo Platform
The distributed ledger repo (DLR) platform by Broadridge Financial Solutions has onboarded a heavy-weight of the trading industry, UBS.
Beeks Launches Cloud Service Optimized for Low-Latency Trading
Beeks Group has launched Proximity Cloud, a fully configured, pre-installed physical trading environment that is optimized for low latency trading conditions.
LCH Adds Euro Repo to Sponsored Clearing Model
LCH has expanded its Sponsored Clearing model to include Euro repo clearing, thus enabling buy-side firms to directly access repo clearing at LCH SA, including €GCPlus.
Horizon Expands Into Middle East via Business France
Horizon Software has partnered with Business France Middle East to expand the range of services on offer to clients based in the MENA region.
Capitolis to Acquire LMRKTS for Its Trade Compression Solutions
Capitolis has entered into an agreement to acquire LMRKTS, an industry-leading multilateral optimization and compression provider.
Boerse Stuttgart Integrates Tradeweb’s data for US Coporate Bonds
Boerse Stuttgart is integrating Tradeweb’s live streaming prices for US corporate bonds on Boerse Stuttgart’s bond order book.
Admirals Adds CIO Andrey Koks as Third Board Member
Admirals, formerly known as Admiral Markets, has appointed Andrey Koks as a new member of the Management Board as of 2 August 2021.
Also filing this week: Karthik Subramanian and Abdelaziz Fathi.