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ParFX, the spot forex electronic trading platform set up by Tradition last year, has added Citi and JP Morgan to its founder bank community.
13 February 2014
Kantox, a London-based peer-to-peer foreign exchange trading platform for SMEs and mid-caps, has raised EUR6.5 million in a series a funding round.
10 February 2014
A comprehensive rewrite of rules governing trading in financial markets has been agreed by the European Parliament and the bloc's Council of Ministers.
15 January 2014
On the day it was fined EUR725 million by the EU for rate rigging, Deutsche Bank has confirmed that it has banned traders from using chat rooms, which have proved a fruitful hunting ground for regulators sniffing out market manipulation.
04 December 2013
FX risk reduction utility CLS Group has raised £160 million from its banking shareholders to meet new capital standards for systemically important market infrastructures and to invest in new technology.
02 December 2013
Citi's latest philanthropic effort will see the bank hand over money to education-related non-profits based on foreign exchange trading volumes on its Velocity electronic platform.
01 October 2013
Singapore is to use actual transactional data from Thomson Reuters to calculate benchmark currency rates in the wake of a rate-rigging scandal involving up to 133 traders from 20 banks on the island state.
18 June 2013
Returning for its third year, the Swift Business Forum London brings together over 700 financial services professionals to explore the key challenges and opportunities facing our industry today. Finextra is liveblogging events here.
30 April 2013
Tradition has launched ParFX, a spot forex trading platform with the backing of 11 major banks, including Barclays and UBS.
18 April 2013
New York-based start-up Coinsetter has raised $500,000 in seed funding as it prepares to launch its forex trading platform for bitcoin.
10 April 2013
Online foreign exchange trading platform FXCM has offered to buy rival Gain Capital for $210.4 million in stock.
09 April 2013
Icap has sold a 12% stake in Traiana to a group of seven bank customers in a deal valuing the foreign exchange post-trade processing platform at $300 million.
14 January 2013
Thomson Reuters and GFI Group have formed a joint venture with Chinese outfit SDIC Trust and filed an application to launch a foreign exchange and money brokerage in the country.
23 July 2012
The Currency Cloud, a UK-based start-up offering foreign exchange payments automation, has raised $2 million in funding from Notion Capital.
12 July 2012
Thomson Reuters has agreed to acquire multi-bank electronic foreign exchange platform FX Alliance (FXall) for around $625 million in cash.
09 July 2012
UK currency conversion start-up TransferWise, billed as a 'skype for currency exchange", has raised $1.3 million in seed funding from an A-list team of angel investors.
18 April 2012
Electronic foreign exchange platform FXall has hired former Nyse Euronext chief information officer Steve Rubinow to head up its technology operations.
03 April 2012
With foreign exchange evolving into a mainly electronic marketplace, the industry is poised to see massive growth in the use of algorithmic trading strategies, according to research house Greenwich Associates.
The Currency Cloud, a UK-based start-up offering foreign exchange payments automation, has raised $4 million in a series a funding round led by Atlas Venture.
14 March 2012
Interdealer broker Icap has restructured its electronic trading operations to separate the reporting lines for the FX and fixed income businesses in a move that has led to the departure of division chief David Rutter.
13 March 2012
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