Emirates Business Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, reports on Wednesday the financial markets have started the year strong with a rally in equities leading to a huge rotation of investors moving from bonds to equities which may bring further demand for equities in the coming weeks. However, at a presentation in Dubai, Saxo Bank’s Head …

  Bloomberg A London-based stock exchange that was on the ropes a year ago is getting a lifeline from algorithmic traders drawn to its efforts to blunt the advantages of raw speed. Though still small, Aquis Exchange Ltd. has seen its share of European trading more than double in the past year. Part of the reason is firms like XTX …

  Bloomberg International money transfer service TransferWise Ltd. has announced an integration with Facebook Inc.’s Messenger that will let people set up foreign exchange transactions over the chat service. London-based TransferWise launched the technology as a bot — a piece of automation software that understands natural language — baked within Messenger. The bot, which is free to use and doesn’t …