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FXCM Integrates CFD Pricing Into FlexTrade’s Technology
January 25th, 2016
FXCM Inc. with FlexTrade Systems Inc. today announced the integration of FXCM’s CFD pricing into FlexTrade’s technology. FXCM through FXCM Pro focuses heavily on its wholesale business, which services brokers, funds, and emerging market banks. The offering provides a bevy of ...
J.P. Morgan to Increase Deposit Rates for Some Big Clients in January
December 29th, 2015
Bank is among first of big peers to boost deposit rates after Fed decision on interest rates J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. will raise deposit rates for some of its biggest clients in January, according to a person familiar with ...
Gold battered by dollar strength after Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike
December 17th, 2015
Commerzbank analysts say precious metal could see recovery in 2016 Losses for gold futures were building on Thursday, as the metal succumbed to some dollar strength in the wake of the first interest-rate increase by the U.S. Federal Reserve ...
PRECIOUS-Gold stays firm after Fed raises rates
December 17th, 2015
Gold held gains on Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve raised U.S. interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, as expected, making clear it was a tentative beginning to a “gradual” tightening cycle. The U.S. central bank’s ...
Shares climb, dollar dips as Fed prepares to lift rates
December 16th, 2015
Shares and bond markets rose and the dollar dipped on Wednesday, as investors readied for what is expected to be the first rise in U.S. interest rates in almost a decade. After more than a year of posturing and ...
FINRA: 3 Things to Keep in Mind if the Fed Raises Rates
December 15th, 2015
As media stories report on a potential hike in the federal funds rate by the Federal Reserve, here are three things to keep in mind. First, while it is generally true that bond prices fall when interest rates rise, ...
Big banks accused of interest rate-swap fixing in U.S. class action suit
November 26th, 2015
A class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday, accuses 10 of Wall Street’s biggest banks and two trading platforms of conspiring to limit competition in the $320 trillion market for interest rate swaps. The class action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court ...
PBOC cuts rates for standing lending facility
November 19th, 2015
China’s central bank on Thursday said it would cut interest rates for a monetary instrument called the Standing Lending Facility, or SLF, in an effort to guide market rates. In a brief statement on its Twitter-like Weibo account, it ...
The declining interest rate cap
November 17th, 2015
Believe it or not, one of the topics in economics that confuses macroeconomists is the actual role of interest rates. For the most part they just assume that an interest rate is the cost of money, the price of ...
FCA‘s Project Innovate celebrates first anniversary with plans for ‘regulatory sandbox’
November 10th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published plans for implementing a ‘regulatory sandbox’. The sandbox will allow businesses to test out new, innovative financial products, services or business models without incurring all the normal regulatory consequences of engaging in ...
