It was a holiday shortened week of Forex Industry News, but not too short for a number of important issues and topics you read about only at LeapRate: Which Forex company is the latest recipient of a CySEC CIF license? Which leading broker had its best ever volumes month? Which European central bank took a large…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has announced an emergency court order to freeze assets in two brokerage accounts used last week to reap more than $1 million in alleged insider trading profits in connection with a merger announcement by telecommunications companies. According to the SEC’s complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern…
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The financial regulatory environment is changing as Forex broker technology provider T4B outlines here. The company has recently developed two new innovative plugins for MT4 in which brokers operating in France and Japan can now implement addressing limited risk measures and reporting solutions. In order to be compliant with new regulations, brokers need to implement…
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New York-headquartered EM4X, an emerging markets multi-asset and multi-currency trading platform has announced the establishment a new data center to provide FX market participants with improved local connections to its FX liquidity venues. The new London LD4 data center and matching engine will provide improved pricing, market access and enhanced workflow for foreign exchange market participants within…
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This article was written by Jameel Ahmad, VP of Corporate Development and Market Research at FXTM. Unless one candidate can garner more than 50% of the vote in the first round of elections, French voters will go to the polls twice to elect their new leader. The two candidates that score the most votes will go head…
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Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…
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Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today brought into effect a new guideline to allow the regulated short selling of corporate bonds in the Malaysian capital market. With the new Guidelines on Regulated Short Selling of Corporate Bonds (Guidelines), Principal Dealers are now permitted to conduct regulated short selling of corporate bonds, expanding the range of bonds…
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Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Forest Finance / Forest Finance Team / Forest Finance Services Ltd. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out…
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The Futures Industry Association (FIA) announced the launch of a new data product today. The FCM Tracker provides a series of data visualizations that give market participants powerful insights into the ecosystem of U.S. futures commission merchants (FCMs). The FCM Tracker uses data published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to visualize trends dating…
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