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.
January 2018
December & 2017 Volumes: FXSpotStream, Cboe FX, GTX, and FastMatch
FXSpotStream ADV at $19.5 billion in 2017, up 7% FXSpotStream, the multibank FX aggregation service, reported a weaker trading month to close the year 2017.
December 2017
Roboforex rebrands to RoboMarkets due to crypto trading
Cyprus-based Forex & CFD broker RoboForex is announcing its rebranding to RoboMarkets as cryptocurrencies gain momentum in the online trading industry.
Cboe announces new US exchange board members
Cboe Global Markets, one of the world’s largest exchange companies, announced changes in the membership of the boards of its six U.S.
SIX Swiss Exchange in temporary EU market access
The Swiss-EU bilateral relationship has seen better days.
Blockchain ATS tZERO reaches over $100 million investment in token sale
tZERO, Overstock.com’s financial technology subsidiary, announced that its first-ever preferred equity security token sale, open for subscription on Dec.
Plus500, CMC Markets, and IG Group tumble on fears of strict leverage cap
European financial regulatory body ESMA announced it wants to ban Binary Options in the European Union and limit leverage up to 30:1 on Forex trading.
Dubai stock exchange allows short selling
Dubai Financial Market (DFM) launched the Regulated Short Selling (RSS) Service after completion of all regulatory, technical and procedural preparations.
Also filing this week: Karthik Subramanian and Abdelaziz Fathi.