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INTL FCStone Inc. completes an acquisition
July 6th, 2016
INTL FCStone Inc. Substantially Completes the Acquisition of the Correspondent Clearing and Independent Wealth Management Businesses from Sterne Agee LLC INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ:INTL) (“INTL”) announced that it has substantially completed, effective July 1, 2016, its acquisition of the ...
Virtu Financial Enters into a Strategic Minority Investment with SBI Japannext
July 6th, 2016
Virtu Financial (NASDAQ:VIRT) announced today it is making a strategic minority investment in SBI Japannext, Co., Ltd., a leading Proprietary Trading System (‘PTS’) based in Tokyo. The investment is part of Virtu’s strategic long-term commitment to the Japanese marketplace. ...
Interactive Brokers reports DARTs 7% higher and changes in the composition of its currency exposure management unit
July 4th, 2016
Interactive Brokers Group Reports Brokerage Metrics for June 2016 and New “GLOBAL” Composition Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: IBKR) an automated global electronic broker and market maker, reported its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for June, and changes in ...
Time to Go Long the British Pound?
July 4th, 2016
Well they did it. British voters opted to leave the European Union, and in the process sent the financial markets into a tailspin. But the biggest victim here would appear to be the British pound. The night of the ...
Before the bell: What you need to know before the US market open
June 28th, 2016
The Brexit rollercoaster is still going full tilt, unbalancing global markets, currencies and politics. Here’s what you need to know before the US open at 2:30pm London time. Major US markets are pointing up ahead of the open, with ...
Most Asia markets end higher as region weathers a global rout after Brexit vote
June 28th, 2016
Most Asian markets closed higher on Tuesday, managing to hold up better than global peers amid a rout that wiped out as much as $3 trillion of market capitalization, according to data from S&P Global, in the wake of the ...
Bitcoin exchange Quoine raises $20m venture investment
June 21st, 2016
Quoine, a Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange, has closed a $20 million funding round, leveraging off the large opportunity for Bitcoin in the Japanese market, led by venture capitalists (VCs) and other ‘strategic investors’. It’s last funding round was a $2 million ...
The Law firms that advised on Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn
June 14th, 2016
On June 13, 2016, Microsoft and LinkedIn Corporation, the world’s largest professional network with more than 433 million members in 200 countries and territories around the globe, announced a definitive agreement for Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for approximately $26.2 ...
INTL FCStone Ltd.’s Global Payments Division reports increase in cross-border payments
June 14th, 2016
Facilitated ~101,000 payments in CY Q1 2016; an increase of ~14% vs. CY Q1 2015 Signed 500th institutional client in CY Q2 2016 Transferred more than $22 billion in payments in CY 2015; on track to increase in 2016 INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
Surging yen sends Nikkei tumbling 3.1 percent ahead of BOJ meeting
June 13th, 2016
Asian markets ended sharply lower Monday, ahead of central bank meetings in the U.S. and Japan this week and amid jitters over the upcoming referendum on whether the U.K. would remain in the European Union. Japan’s Nikkei 225 tumbled 582.18 points, ...
