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Women In FinTech Powerlist 2019 Released

Date 05/03/2020

International Women's Day takes place this Sunday, and the team here at Innovate Finance would love to know what you or your company are doing for it!

Our Approach To Ensuring Firms Treat Vulnerable Customers Fairly - Speech By Nisha Arora, Director, Consumer And Retail Policy At The FCA, Delivered At The TISA Vulnerability Conference

Date 05/03/2020

Highlights

• Speech to TISA vulnerability conference outlined our forthcoming Guidance, which seeks to give firms greater clarity and explain what, under our Principles for Businesses, firms need to do to ensure that vulnerable consumers are treated fairly and consistently across financial services sectors. 
• We want to see the Guidance embedded in firms’ culture, processes and practices. Our supervisors will be supporting firms to do this and will want to see them demonstrating how they are complying with our Principles in respect of the treatment of vulnerable consumers.
• Our aim with the Guidance is to change the discourse from whether the right boxes have been ticked to achieve compliance, to firms stepping back to ask what their vulnerable customer’s needs are, and how they are then responding to deliver good outcomes.
• We will consult on our revised Guidance in Spring this year with a view to finalising it later in the year.  

FTSE Russell: Straits Times Index (STI) Quarterly Review

Date 05/03/2020

• No changes to the constituents of the STI

FXCM Launches Commission-Free* Equity Trading

Date 05/03/2020

FXCM Group, LLC (“FXCM Group’ or ‘FXCM’), a leading international provider of online foreign exchange trading, CFD trading, cryptocurrencies and related services, is expanding into equity trading with the launch of a commission-free* trading service in collaboration with Interactive Brokers. 

R.J. O’Brien Named Best Independent FCM At HFM US Quant Awards 2020 - Award For Exceptional Client Service And Innovation Marks 8th Win For RJO And UK Affiliate In HFM Global Award Series

Date 05/03/2020

Chicago-based R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), the oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States, has won the award for Best Independent FCM (Futures Commission Merchant) at the HFM US Quant Awards 2020. The award series expanded on the honors given for the previous six years in the CTA Intelligence Awards, making the win the eighth honor bestowed on RJO and its UK affiliate by the HFM Global network of publications.

BIS: Financial Crises And Innovation

Date 05/03/2020

Focus

Growth and productivity are persistently low following financial crises. This paper examines how financial crises affect innovation. Patents are an important measure of the kind of innovative activity that can lead to productivity gains. We study patent data from a broad sample of countries and financial crises and consider impacts up to 10 years after a crisis.

Borsa Italiana Monthly Update - February 2020

Date 05/03/2020

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Avelacom Expands Its Footprint In Virginia To Access Amazon AWS North America Region - Avelacom Makes It Easier For Institutions To Exploit Arbitrage And Other Latency Sensitive Strategies Across A Wider Variety Of Cryptocurrency Markets

Date 05/03/2020

Avelacom, the high-performance global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, has deployed a new point-of-presence (PoP) in Ashburn, Virginia, with direct connectivity to Amazon AWS US – East–1 region. Its AWS Ashburn to AWS Dublin, one of the most popular routes for cryptocurrency arbitrage, is now the fastest line available in the market at a guaranteed 65.3ms round-trip latency.

EEX Group: Monthly Report February 2020 - Significant Increases Across Majority Of Portfolio

Date 05/03/2020

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Cloud Innovation Gains 5 Award Shortlists This Year For Velocimetrics

Date 05/03/2020

Velocimetrics’ new product, stream2Cloud, has had an unprecedented level of success since its launch in early January, now securing a further four shortlists. Having been shortlisted by FStech awards in January, stream2Cloud has now been shortlisted in the National Technology Awards and the European IT and Software Excellence Awards for ‘Cloud Innovation’ and ‘Enterprise (Cloud) Solution’ of the year, respectively. stream2Cloud also received a further two nominations from the Network Computing Awards for ‘Cloud-Based Solution of the Year’ and ‘New Cloud Solution of the Year’.