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Moscow Exchange to introduce OFZ liquidity support program
May 21st, 2015
On 1 June Moscow Exchange will complete the migration from TO to T+1 settlement cycle for Russian federal government bonds known as OFZs. The Exchange will also introduce a liquidity support program for trading in the new settlement cycle. The ...
eXtremeDB Financial Edition DBMS Powers Innovation in TradeStation’s Next-Gen Order Execution System
May 21st, 2015
With rollout approaching for its order execution system incorporating the eXtremeDB® Financial Edition database management system (DBMS), TradeStation is finding that the specialized DBMS for financial systems from McObject® delivers the expected performance boost – and that eliminating data management latency makes ...
SEC Charges Brokerage Firm Co-Owners With Defrauding Investors
May 21st, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against the co-owners of a Manhattan-based brokerage firm. The SEC alleges that as Arjent LLC and its UK-based affiliate Arjent Limited were approaching insolvency, chairman and CEO Robert P. DePalo ...
OPEC Struggling To Keep Up The Pace In Oil Price War
May 21st, 2015
Some market watchers, such as Cornerstone Analytics (CA), have consistently stated that the underestimation of demand, coupled with over-estimation of supply, will mask the growing call on OPEC oil in the second half of this year. CA recently noted ...
LMAX Exchange, the UK’s fastest growing technology company, achieves first full year of profitability following global expansion
May 21st, 2015
LMAX Exchange, the UK’s fastest growing technology company and the leading FCA regulated MTF for FX, is pleased to announce its first full year of profitability with reported annual net profits of £0.5 million in 2014. Further 2014 highlights and ...
FCA fines Barclays £284,432,000 for forex failings
May 20th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has imposed a financial penalty of £284,432,000 on Barclays Bank Plc (Barclays) for failing to control business practices in its foreign exchange (FX) business in London. This is the largest financial penalty ever imposed ...
Six Banks Pay $5.8 Billion, Five Plead Guilty to Market Rigging
May 20th, 2015
Six of the world’s biggest banks will pay $5.8 billion and five of them agreed to plead guilty to charges tied to a currency-rigging probe as they seek to wind down almost half a decade of enforcement actions. Citicorp, ...
Law Firm Survey: Financial Services Professionals Reveals Widespread Disregard for Ethics
May 20th, 2015
Efforts to Reform Wall Street and Fleet Street May be Faltering Labaton Sucharow LLP, which established the nation’s first practice exclusively dedicated to representing SEC whistleblowers, today announced the results of its collaborative survey with the University of Notre ...
Sarao Loses Bail Appeal as Judge Says He Is a ‘Flight Risk’
May 20th, 2015
Navinder Singh Sarao lost a bid to secure bail while he fights extradition to the U.S. on market-manipulation charges as a judge said the 36-year-old trader was a clear flight risk. Judge Ross Cranston refused to remove or reduce ...
Forex Brokerages Move into the Fast Lane with LXLite
May 20th, 2015
Leverate, the developer of the award-winning Sirix retail forex trading platform, announces the launch of LXLite, a new approach to the all-in-one brokerage solution. The LXLite package combines the best Forex and CFD trading technology with instant regulation, streamlined ...