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FxPro shelves IPO amid FCA crackdown

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FxPro shelves IPO amid FCA crackdown

Currency trading firm FxPro has abandoned plans for a London stock market flotation as a result of the UK regulator's plan to crackdown on the growing financial spread betting market, according to Sky News

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Futures and options firms to raise technology spend in 2017

IPC's annual survey of financial executives attending the FIA Futures and Options Expo in Chicago in October 2016 found for the second year in a row that respondents plan to increase their technology spend over the next year to realize cost efficiencies, gain competitive advantage and manage compliance.

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CME Europe approved as a Foreign Board of Trade by CFTC

CME Europe, CME Group's European multi-asset class exchange, today announced that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has registered it as a Foreign Board of Trade (FBOT).

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LSE Derivates Market opens up to US market

London Stock Exchange plc today announces that it has received approval from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Registered Foreign Board of Trade (FBOT).

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GMEX Exchange rebrands as London Derivatives Exchange

London Derivatives Exchange (LDX) Group today announced its rebranding, following separation from GMEX Technologies.

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Convergex licenses The OptionEyes

Convergex, an agency-focused global brokerage and trading related services provider, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement granting it an exclusive license to The OptionEyes, a front-end technology platform that helps active traders manage and trade positions in an options or equity portfolio.

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Rival Systems adds connectivity to Nasdaq Futures

Chicago-based Rival Systems (Rival), a leading provider of trading and risk management software, today announced it now offers connectivity to Nasdaq Futures, Inc. (NFX), giving clients expanded access to energy markets and the ability to easily trade and manage like products across multiple exchanges.

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BNP Paribas to underpin future and options trading with Fidessa

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) has today announced that BNP Paribas has selected its derivatives trading platform to underpin the bank's futures and options agency trading business.

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FIA announces finalists in fintech innovator competition

FIA announced five finalists for the Meet the Innovators competition at the Futures and Options Expo in Chicago on Oct. 18-20.

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Bats migrates BZX Options to next-gen matching engine

Bats Global Markets, Inc. (BATS), today announced the successful migration of its largest options exchange, BZX Options, to the company’s proprietary next-generation matching engine.

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Eris Exchange opens London office; commences hiring spree

Eris Exchange (Eris), a U.S.-based futures exchange group offering cash-settled swap futures as the leading alternative to traditional OTC swaps, announced the opening of a London office and the hiring of Timothy Stack as Managing Director, Head of Europe.

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BGC Partners to buy Canadian e-trading platforms outfit Perimeter Markets

BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners," "BGC," or "the Company"), a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, today announced that BGC1 has entered into an agreement to acquire Perimeter Markets Inc. ("Perimeter Markets").

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E*Trade agrees $725m OptionHouse acquisition

E*Trade Financial Corporation (ETFC) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aperture New Holdings, Inc., the ultimate parent company of OptionsHouse, for $725 million in cash.

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Thomson Reuters add futures and options execution application for commodities traders in Eikon

Energy and commodities traders can now execute futures and options orders directly from Thomson Reuters Eikon, helping reduce the need to pay for expensive market data fees across multiple platforms without sacrificing functionality.

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Bats unveils community policing programme

Bats Global Markets, Inc. (BATS) today announced the creation of the Bats Community Policing Program for its U.S. equities and options exchanges, an initiative designed to further enhance the company’s capabilities in monitoring markets.

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Dash Financial unveils Drop360

Dash Financial, a leading FinTech company devoted to bringing unfettered transparency and institutional-grade performance to the U.S. options and equities markets, today announced the launch of DROP360, an enhanced, real-time drop-copy facility delivering instantaneous transparency into the complete order routing behavior, execution behavior, costs and performance in machine readable format utilizing FIX protocol.

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Quantitative Brokers and TradingScreen team up for best execution algos

TradingScreen Inc., the leading independent provider of liquidity, trading and investment technology via SaaS, and Quantitative Brokers (“QB”), a leading provider of clearer and dealer-neutral agency algorithms for fixed income and futures markets, have partnered to provide QB’s best execution algorithms through the TradingScreen electronic trading platform.

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Bracken chooses Rival Systems

Chicago-based Rival Systems (Rival), a trading software company established last year, today announced that Bracken, LLC has selected Rival as the platform for its equity options market-making business on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).

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ABN Amro Clearing signs with Fidessa for execution platform

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced that it has signed a contract to provide cross-asset execution services to ABN AMRO Clearing (AAC). This allows AAC to offer its clients low-latency access to more than 110 futures, options, equities and FX markets worldwide via a globally consistent interface, delivered out of 11 key locations around the world.

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Credit Suisse selects FIS Derivatives Utility

Credit Suisse, a leader in the global cleared derivatives industry, has selected the Derivatives Utility from FIS (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial services technology, for its post-trade futures and cleared over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives operations and technology.

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