Trading Technologies Sign Another Firm In Singapore, KGI Securities
Trading Technologies is rapidly expanding its business in Asia. The firm signed with Singapore-based Straits Financial last week.
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.
September 2018
Flow Traders Select Corvil to Comply With Order to Transaction Ratio
Corvil's Intelligence Hub helps market participants with MiFID II requirements by identifying, triaging, and actioning areas of potential risk.
big xyt Launches Liquidity Metrics for ETFs With Data From Ultumus
The analytics provider also offers access to high-quality tick data through xyt hub, which is connected to more than 100 venues globally and across asset classes.
Peter Hetherington Resigns As CEO of IG Group
Hetherington steps down after a 3-year tenure with profit before tax and earnings per share up by more than 65 percent.
Security Tokens Issuance Platform Neufund Partners With Secondary Markets
The firm has recently partnered with BitBay, Binance, and MSX of Malta Stock Exchange, to act as secondary markets for the security tokens issued at the platform.
TSX Lists Two Blockchain ETFs By Coinsquare’s Coin Capital
Toronto exchange has listed two ETFs launched by Coin Capital ahead of the upcoming $120 million IPO by parent company Coinsquare.
Straits Financial Customers to Have Access to Trading Technologies’ Tools
The independent software vendor develops high-performance trading software for banks, brokers, hedge funds, proprietary traders and other trading institutions.
Mark Richards Resigns From Board at Gain Capital
The resignation comes at a time that NEX Group is about to being acquired by CME Group for £3.9 billion ($5.15 billion).
Bitfinex Launches Ethfinex Decentralized Exchange
The cryptocurrency space is rapidly maturing to make decentralized exchanges a reality with all the benefits and potential regulatory concerns that come with it.
Thomson Reuters Partners With Seabury TFX to Narrow Gap In Global Trade Finance
Untapped potential in trade, unrealized economic value and lost opportunity result in a gap of $1.6 trillion annually in global trade finance.
Playtech’s Financial Division Integrates Brokeree Liquidity Bridge
Brokeree Liquidity Bridge provides an advanced risk management module, smart liquidity aggregation and simultaneous connection to multiple MT4 and MT5 servers.
SimCorp to Automate Investment Process of Norway’s Largest Private Asset Manager
SimCorp's fund solutions have contributed to the Storebrand's consolidation strategy which resulted in savings of EUR 1 million annually.
TORA Trading Integrates NEX MiFID II Reporting Into OEMS
MiFID II compliant solutions and AI-powered pre-trade metric enhancements are two of the key developments at TORA.
Seed CX Raises $15m From Bain to Expand Crypto Exchange for Trading Industry
Institutional crypto exchange Seed CX plans to use the $15 million raised to expand trading infrastructure, network, and human resources.
Nasdaq May Acquire Cinnober for $190m to Make 10% 3-5 Year ROIC
Cinnober's board of directors is supportive of Nasdaq's acquisition offer valued at $190 million.
Also filing this week: Karthik Subramanian and Abdelaziz Fathi.