Today is the final day for the trading industry and investors to submit comments on one of Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler's most controversial proposals: a partial overhaul of the U.S. trading sys…
Many brokerages offer free stock-trading apps for investors who are just getting started.
Investors in Robinhood Markets (HOOD), the online trading platform, have endured a tough year with the stock price falling 60%. Can its fortunes turn around?
The consultation and call for evidence have long been called for from the crypto industry. It looks to start clarifying the government’s approach of making the country a fintech hub and adding value to being a UK-regist…
Financial markets contribute to economic growth by aggregating savings and allocating them to productive opportunities. Prices guide the decisions that drive this dual function: investors’ portfolio choice and issuers’ …
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Natan Tiefenbrun, President, Cboe Europe, summarises Cboe Europe’s activities over 2022 and looks ahead to its plans for 2023.
Singapore has quietly been playing host to some of the most advanced explorations into cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) ever done by big banks, institutions and regulators.
The BIS Triennial Central Bank Survey is the most comprehensive source of information on the size and structure of global over-the-counter (OTC) markets in foreign exchange (FX) and interest rate derivatives. The Survey…
Crypto innovators must be encouraged to stay in the U.S. , said the CEO of software developer Inca Digital. The Washington, D.C., company recently won a Defense Department contract to look into crypto security risks.
The secondary market is where investors buy and sell securities, such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Trades take place on the secondary market between other investors and traders rather than from the companies that…
This product expansion includes an extensive library of both liquid and less liquid, hard-to-value instruments across sovereigns, investment grade and high yield corporates, emerging markets, money market, U.S. municipa…
Vehicles run at the Central Business District in Chaoyang District in Beijing, capital of China, June 6, 2022. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)
Single Dealer Platforms (SDPs) are an alternative source of liquidity for execution algorithms, alongside exchanges and ATSs, and are quite popular because they offer liquidity at no commission to brokers. But the way S…
As the crypto market has continued its volatile ride over the past year, most market participants would agree that regulators needed to step in and tame what has been – and in many cases still is – the Wild West of cryp…
London Stock Exchange Group plc today provided a trading update for the first quarter of 2022.
The proposal, made by US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is to amend Rule 3b-16 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act), which “defines certain terms used in the statutory defini…
When brokers for institutional investors choose to route trades to market makers categorized as single dealer platforms they may not be getting the best prices for their clients, according to a new report from BestEx Re…
Since the Great Recession cross-border financial assets have grown nearly 60 percent. While cross-border bank lending has stayed relatively constant, cross-border portfolios and market-based finance have grown tremendou…
The landscape for wholesale gold trading is quite complex and constantly evolving. The three most important gold trading centres are the London OTC market, the US futures market and the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE). The…
Financial markets data is the most important output of fully transparent liquid markets, according to NYSE President Lynn Martin.
One of the world's top nickel producers faces massive losses on its short positions after prices soared over $100,000 per tonne last week and forced the London Metal Exchange to halt nickel trading.
Markets are betting the next rate move by the Bank of Canada will be a hike — and that's where the danger lies
2021 was significant for Africa with respect to the African Continental Free Trade Area (‘AfCFTA’) and the Agreement establishing it. The aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic generated a global economic crisis at a very c…