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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CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) just announced that the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) will be the first of the CBOE Holdings exchanges to migrate onto the Bats technology platform, with an expected switch-over on Sunday, February 25, 2018. The migration of the C2 and CBOE options exchanges will follow, with those dates to be announced…
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London-based online trading firm CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX) has issued a Trading Update for its Fiscal 2017 second half, which covers the six month period of October 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017. CMC has a March 31 fiscal year end. While CMC did not disclose any specific revenue, volume or earnings figures, it did…
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LeapRate recently caught up with Spotware Systems, the rising trading platform and forex technology company who has matured into the market by offering cutting edge platforms. The firm's advantage over others is its continuous engineering and refining of the software. This allows the company to retain traders once they switch to cTrader and produces positive…
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Belize financial regulator IFSC (International Financial Services Commission) has issued a warning regarding retail forex brokerage firm Premium Point Market, operating from website premierfxmarket.com. It has come to the notice of the IFSC that an entity calling itself Premier Point Market is falsely claiming to be registered in Belize. The representation made on the broker's website…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated FX broker IKON Finance has decided to exit the Retail Forex sector, to focus solely on institutional clients and services. In addition, due to regulatory restrictions which have been imposed on IKON by the FCA, IKON is no longer accepting any new clients. IKON has been instructed by…
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After years of economic neglect, poverty for the common man and turmoil in the region, Iraq has finally reached a state of constant economic growth under democratic leadership in the aftermath of the US invasion in 2003 and the deposing of Saddam Hussein’s tyrannical regime. The following post is courtesy of fractalerts, a division of…
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Multi asset platform developer PFSOFT just announced introduction of a new functionality that allows brokers to enable margin and cash trading on the same instrument with use of the same account. Seeing constant demand for such ability among partnering brokers, PFSOFT combined both cash and margin trading for the same instrument underlier (symbol). From now…
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The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) announced that is working on various initiatives aimed at offering better protection for investors and one such initiative is today's signature of a partnership agreement with Signal Spam, the French national spam reporting platform. Signal Spam is a not-for-profit association managed by public authorities, corporations and industry representatives. Since 2005,…
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EBS BrokerTec, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which provides electronic trading technology and services, announced a new internal structure for its electronic foreign exchange (FX) business, EBS, to allow it to better serve its customers. The new structure which is effective immediately, presents EBS as a service-driven business focused on what customers need, rather than…
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