Posts published in April 2015

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) has promoted former JPMorgan executive, Svante Hedin to the role of head of electronic trading for FX and commodities. Mr.…

Payment processor ECommPay just unveiled that it has gained a MasterCard principal member status on the 29th of April. The company continues its efforts to…

Bitcoin’s price has climbed by as much as 4.5% to hover near $235, a one-week high on most exchanges. Three days ago, the BTC-e exchange…

Swedish financial solutions provider, Cinnober, is aiming to provide greater cooperation of fintech industry standards through the launch of their Financial IT Quality Assessment (FIQA).…

The US dollar was hurt yesterday by a report that showed the US economy almost grinding to a halt. The currency relieved some of its wounds after the Federal Reserve released its policy statement…

It was recently reported that a single high-frequency futures trader was arrested in Britain.  Navinder Singh Sarao was charged by the U.S. Justice Department with wire fraud, commodities…

Representatives from the Russian self-regulatory nonprofit organization “Centre for Regulation in OTC Financial Instruments and Technologies,” commonly known as the CRFIN, yesterday took part in a…

The Great Britain pound rallied today, reaching the strongest level in a month versus the US dollar, as macroeconomic data from the United Kingdom was relatively positive. The softness of the US currency added to the upside…

Two of America’s have finally called off their merger attempt. That is to say that last week Comcast that it was abandoning a merger attempt…

The New Zealand dollar logged gains against its US counterpart and the Japanese yen (update: the NZ dollar retreated back to the opening level versus the yen), carried higher by the greenback’s weakness. Earlier,…