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FC Exchange joins Saxo Payments Banking Circle
April 13th, 2016
Saxo Payments, the global transactions services provider, is starting a new partnership with currency broker and international payments solution provider, FC Exchange. Under the new agreement, the Saxo Payments Banking Circle will help FC Exchange deliver sophisticated solutions, across ...
China Looks at Introducing Tax on Foreign Currency Transactions
March 24th, 2016
China is looking at introducing a tax on foreign currency transactions, among other measures, to curb speculative capital flows, even though outflows have recently slowed, a senior foreign-exchange regulatory official said Tuesday. Wang Yungui, the head of the regulation department ...
CFTC Charges Two Binary Options Firms with Fraud, Illegal Off-Exchange Activity, and Operating in an Unregistered Capacity
March 16th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that a federal district court has unsealed a civil Complaint that the CFTC filed with the Northern District of Illinois on February 2, 2016, against two foreign web-based binary options ...
London Stock Exchange Group Preliminary Results For The Year Ended 31 December 2015
March 8th, 2016
Unless stated otherwise, all figures in the highlights below relate to performance for 12 months to 31 December 2015 and comparisons with the prior 12 month period (unaudited) Continued delivery of successful strategy – Group strongly positioned to make ...
CFTC Issues an Exemption to the Korea Exchange Permitting Designated Korea Exchange Members to Deal Directly with U.S. Customers
February 9th, 2016
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order to the Korea Exchange (KRX) permitting certain KRX Members to solicit and accept orders and in connection therewith, accept funds directly from U.S. customers for trading on KRX without ...
Moody’s: Cross-currency swaps mitigate effect of exchange controls on covered bonds and securitisations
January 19th, 2016
Moody’s Investors Service says cross-currency swaps that mitigate the effect of foreign exchange controls have enabled Moody’s to assign ratings above the applicable foreign currency bond ceilings to foreign-currency-denominated covered bonds and securitisation transactions. “To mitigate the transferability and ...
More foreign institutions allowed on China’s forex market
January 13th, 2016
China’s central bank allowed more overseas central banks and similar institutions to enter the country’s inter-bank foreign exchange market on Tuesday. Seven such institutions completed registration with the China Foreign Exchange Trading System, which signaled their official access to ...
Israel’s foreign currency market in 2015
January 12th, 2016
The Exchange Rate Moderate weakening of the shekel against the dollar, in parallel with the strengthening of the dollar worldwide. In 2015, the shekel weakened by 0.3 percent against the dollar. The exchange-rate trend was not consistent—until June, the ...
RMB exchange rate remained generally stable against a basket of currencies in 2015
January 7th, 2016
Guest Commentator of CFETS, Jan 5, 2016 On January 4, 2016, the China Foreign Exchange Trade System published the latest readings of a series of RMB exchange rate indices. According to the latest figures, on December 31, 2015, the ...
Exchanges from Germany, USA and Switzerland report their stats for 2015
January 5th, 2016
Deutsche Börse, Eurex Exchange, ISE Holdings, SIX Swiss Exchange and CBOE Holdings, Inc. have issued announcements to inform in relation with their trading results and statistics for 2015. Deutsche Börse Deutsche Börse cash market turnover up by 28 percent in 2015 – Cash markets ...
