NEW YORK, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Today Nasdaq announced that ProShares will list two new exchange-traded funds (ETFs), UltraPro Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (Symbol: UBIO) and UltraPro Short Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (Symbol: ZBIO), which will both begin trading today, June 23, 2015. Both funds track the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index. “We’re pleased to expand our suite [...]
LEAWOOD, Kan., Jun. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Ria Money Transfer (“Ria”), the third-largest global money transfer company and a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq:EEFT), today announced it has acquired IME (M) Sdn Bhd (“IME”), a leading Malaysian-based money transfer provider, and certain affiliated companies. The purchase will be funded primarily by cash, with a [...]
NEW YORK and MANILA, Philippines, Jun. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. (PSE) and Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced today that PSE had a successful migration to the PSEtrade XTS trading system, powered by Nasdaq’s X-stream Trading technology. PSE President and CEO Hans B. Sicat said, “We are pleased with the outcome of the [...]
NEW YORK, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced the appointment of Senior Vice President Stacie Swanstrom to lead its Global Corporate Solutions business. In this role, Swanstrom will be responsible for leading the strategic direction of the business while managing the success and growth of Nasdaq’s current IR, PR, governance and multimedia [...]
NEW YORK, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Market Prophit (www.marketprophit.com) an industry-leading provider of real-time stock market sentiment analysis of social media conversations, has selected Nasdaq Last Sale real-time data to power its stock market analytics platform. Market Prophit implemented the Nasdaq Last Sale real-time pricing feed for its platform analytics, based on accuracy as [...]
MILAN, Italy, Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, June 16, marks the first International Day of Family Remittances. As a global facilitator of low-cost remittances, Ria Money Transfer (“Ria”), the third largest money transfer company in the world, would like to recognise this day and acknowledge and thank the families that faithfully patronise its services. [...]
LEAWOOD, Kan., Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq:EEFT), today announced the addition of three new countries to its portfolio of Independent ATM Deployment (IAD) networks. The new ATMs in Malaysia, Cyprus and Portugal expand Euronet’s position as the world’s fastest growing and most geographically diverse independent ATM deployer. While expanding geographically, Euronet [...]
TORONTO, ONTARIO and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – BMO Financial Group today announced that its asset management business in Europe, the Middle-East and Africa (EMEA) will be rebranding as BMO Global Asset Management. The announcement follows last year’s acquisition of F&C Asset Management plc, which will form the centrepiece of the newly [...]
NEW YORK and LONDON, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Stellar Trading Systems (Stellar) and Nasdaq today announce that Stellar will introduce connectivity to Nasdaq Futures, Inc. (NFX), following the official launch of the NFX platform in mid-2015. NFX is the exchange group’s U.S.-based designated contract market (DCM), offering futures and options on key energy benchmarks, [...]
NEW YORK, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced the expansion of their Directors Desk corporate governance offering, one of the world leaders in electronic board portal workflow and content delivery, into Canada via the establishment of two new data centers in Ontario. This will enable Nasdaq to more effectively service clients, and similar [...]