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Prince Michael of Kent accepts Global Ambassador role for new UK financial service for migrants

HRH Prince Michael of Kent has agreed to become Global Ambassador for RemitRadar.com, a new service focused on the needs of migrants that provides a real-time online platform to connect money transfer systems and consumers.

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Pangea introduces debit-to-debit international money transfer product

Pangea, the international money transfer platform, today introduced a new debit-to-debit transfer product that lets users send money through a mobile app using only debit card numbers, not bank account details.

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Thomson Reuters introduces FX Monitor in Eikon Messenger

Keeping in touch with the rapidly changing and time-sensitive foreign exchange markets can pose significant challenges for corporate treasurers as they manage their ongoing cash management needs.

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BlackRock, BNY Mellon and State Street accept Markit’s ETF collateral lists

Markit (Nasdaq: MRKT), a leading global provider of financial information services, today announced that BlackRock, BNY Mellon and State Street have accepted Markit’s ETF collateral lists for inclusion in their collateral management schedules.

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Euronext hires Paul Humprey from Reuters as head of fixed income, rates and FX strategy

Euronext today announced it has appointed leading industry practitioner Paul Humphrey as Head of Fixed Income, Rates and FX (FICC) Strategy.

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CLS and Markit extend FX settlement to cross currency swaps

CLS Group (CLS), a leading provider of risk mitigation and operational services for the global foreign exchange (FX) market, and Markit, a leading global provider of financial information services, today announced the launch of a new FX settlement service for the cross currency swaps market.

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WorldRemit launches money transfers to Vietnam

Money transfer app WorldRemit today launches remittances to Vietnam. Customers can now send money from the WorldRemit app direct to any bank account in Vietnam.

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Integral expands senior team in New York, London and Tokyo

Integral Development Corp. (www.integral.com), the only provider of end-to-end electronic FX trading platforms, announced today new executive appointments in its New York, London and Tokyo operations.

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Icap's EBS BrokerTec and SGX sign collaboration agreement

EBS BrokerTec, ICAP's market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, and Singapore Exchange (SGX), Asia’s leading and trusted market infrastructure, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to launch SGX listed FX block futures on EBS BrokerTec’s FX central limit order book (CLOB), EBS Market, a primary venue for e-traded currencies.

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Barclays fined $150m for electronic FX trading misconduct

Barclays has been slapped with a $150 million fine by New York state's financial regulator and told to fire an employee over an automated system used to reject unprofitable client orders on its electronic foreign exchange trading platform.

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Tencent's WeBank in $1 billion fund drive; WeChat inks money transfer deal with Western Union

WeBank, the online banking arm of Chinese e-commerce outfit Tencent, is speaking to private equity investors about a $1 billion fund raising effort to spearhead a high street banking push, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Raphaels Bank to provide Sepa-compliant payment processing

Demonstrating its growing reputation for delivering innovative payment solutions, Raphaels Bank can now offer European transfers through the Bank’s indirect membership of The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA).

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CLS adds Hungarian forint to settlement system

CLS Group (CLS), a leading provider of risk mitigation and operational services for the global foreign exchange (FX) market, has started settling payment instructions in the Hungarian forint (HUF) on behalf of its settlement members, bringing to 18 the total number of currencies eligible for settlement through CLS.

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Tim Cartledge to join EBS BrokerTec as chief strategy officer

EBS BrokerTec, ICAP's market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, announces today that Tim Cartledge has been appointed Chief Strategy Officer, effective immediately.

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FirstRand joins CLS as new settlement member

CLS Group (CLS), a leading provider of risk management and operational services for the global foreign exchange (FX) market, and FirstRand, one of South Africa’s largest financial institutions, today announced that FirstRand joined CLS as a settlement member.

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Thomson Reuters brings FX transaction venues onto single desktop

Thomson Reuters has put all of its foreign exchange transaction venues onto one platform in a move it says creates a single point of access to the largest collective independent pool of FX liquidity.

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FCM360 hardens security against wave of DDoS attacks

In the wake of relentless DDoS attacks on foreign exchange (forex) service providers and their networks, FCM360 has fortified its network security to block the current wave of these distributed denial of service attacks.

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Afex partners with Centtrip to launch currency prepaid MasterCard

Afex, one of the world’s largest non-bank providers of global payment and risk management solutions, has partnered with multi award winning prepaid card and e-money business Centtrip, to launch its Afex CurrencyPass Prepaid MasterCard and e-money account.

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SmartTrade enhances its FX platform with margin credit extension

smartTrade Technologies announces the addition of a margin credit functionality to its end-to-end low latency FX trading platform, LiquidityFX.

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Deutsche Börse in Chinese exchange tie-ups

Frankfurt has taken the upper hand in its battle with London to connect to China's capital markets following the announcement of two joint ventures that will link the respective exchanges of Germany and China.