Exclusive: GBE Brokers hires Jaymes Marsh as Global Head of Marketing LeapRate

June 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: GBE Brokers hires Jaymes Marsh as Global Head of Marketing

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that CySEC regulated retail forex and CFD broker GBE Brokers has hired FX industry veteran Jaymes Payten-Marsh to a newly created position of Global Head of Marketing. Mr. Marsh joins GBE Brokers in Cyprus. He was previosuly Marketing Director at FxNet, and Head of Marketing and Communications at FXTM. GBE Brokers, whose management…

June 01, 2017 BY FxPro

USD/JPY Bulls Break Downtrend Line Resistance

US Pending home sales (YoY) released yesterday saw a 3.3% drop in April, from a 0.8% growth in March, marking the biggest drop since June 2014. After the release of the data USD weakened across the board. USD/JPY hit a 2-week low of 110.47. On Thursday, June 1st, in early European trading session, the USD/JPY…

June 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

JFD Brokers adds BTCEUR and BTCUSD leveraged Bitcoin trading

CySEC regulated retail forex and CFDs broker JFD Brokers has announced the launch of leveraged Bitcoin trading for its clients. Becoming one of the first brokers in the industry to be granted by CySEC the license to offer the pairs BTC/EUR and BTC/USD for trading, DMA/STP broker JFD will also allow partial trading on these symbols,…

June 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Paysafe partners with Google to offer Android Pay to merchants in Canada

Google’s Android Pay available as an in-app payment processing option for Paysafe merchants Payments services company Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS) has announced that it has teamed with Google to be one of the first Payment Service Providers (PSP) to launch in-app Android Pay capabilities to its merchants in Canada. Android Pay offers a fast, simple…

June 01, 2017 BY FxPro

Latest Election Forecasts Weigh on GBP Prospect

Per the latest ‘poll of polls’ released yesterday May 31, conducted by the Press Association based on a 7-day rolling average of all published polls, approval ratings for the Conservative and Labour Parties are 44% and 35% respectively. The Conservatives’ lead is 9% which is higher than the previous shocking low 5% lead. Currently the…

June 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

GAIN Capital's Forex.com launches new HTML5 web trading platform

Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) retail forex unit Forex.com has announced the release of a new web trading platform to its U.S. customers. Forex.com's new web trading platform was developed in partnership with TradingView, which offers one of the most powerful web-based charting platforms available today. Developed in HTML5, it supports PC/Mac users and all…

June 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

IG Group shares rise 5% after issuing rosy Q4-2017 outlook

Shares in UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) rose by 5% in Wednesday trading, after the company issued a fairly rosy Trading Update for its fiscal fourth quarter of 2017. IG has a May 31 fiscal year end, so the period in question is for the three month period of March-April-May 2017. IG…

June 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

TFX Click 365 Japan Forex Trading Volume down 1% MoM for May

Data released today by the Tokyo Financial Exchange indicated that forex trading volumes were down slightly during the month of May in Japan. The TFX indicated that the total trading volume of its FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) was 2,220,588, down 1.2% MoM versus April but off 26.2% from last year May. Average daily forex trading…

June 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

NEX Group promotes Samantha Wren to CFO, adds Ken Pigaga to the Board

Electronic trading network operator NEX Group PLC (LON:NXG) has announced today that Stuart Bridges, Group Chief Financial Officer, has stepped down from the Board and will be leaving the company later in the year. Samantha Wren, currently Chief Commercial Officer for NEX Markets, has been appointed to the CFO role and will join the Board…

June 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FastMatch reports record forex volumes of $22.5 billion ADV in May 2017

Forex ECN FastMatch has some good news for its soon-to-be-new owners, Euronext NV (EPA:ENX). Data from FastMatch indicate that volumes in its system increased by 18% MoM in May, to average $22.5 billion ADV for the month. That makes May 2017 FastMatch’s best ever month for trading volumes, well ahead of March’s $19.2 billion, and the first time…