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…
Read moreA new study commissioned by SafeCharge (LON:SCH) has revealed that payment outages and downtime are causing frequent disruption to merchants’ bottom line and growth abilities. The research ‘Payments, Interrupted’, conducted by WBR Digital, surveyed 200+ CFO, VP Finance, Payment Managers and Payments Controllers at large multinational retailers across Europe. The research assesses the current performance…
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Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade Systems today announced the appointment of Vishal Pandya as Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this newly created position, Pandya will serve as a member of FlexTrade’s executive leadership team and have overall responsibility for the performance and development of the company. In this capacity Pandya will report…
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LSE financial economist Dr Jean-Pierre Zigrand has been appointed UK principal investigator of a world-first global project to analyse high frequency financial data. Dr Zigrand, co-director of the Systemic Risk Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), will work with colleagues in the UK, France, Germany, Finland and the US to…
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