October 20, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Market Misconduct Tribunal bans Andrew Left of Citron Research from trading securities in Hong Kong

The Market Misconduct Tribunal (MMT) has ordered that Mr Andrew Left of Citron Research be banned from trading securities in Hong Kong for the maximum period of five years without the leave of the court after finding him culpable of disclosing false or misleading information inducing transactions under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO) in…

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October 20, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FxPro announces consistently positive slippage percentages in Q3 2016 execution statistics

Global retail forex and CFDs broker FxPro has announced key execution statistics registered during the months of July, August, and September 2016. For yet another quarter, the order execution data registered has reflected FxPro’s ongoing focus on slippage symmetry, with Q3 results on a par with the ones observed in previous quarters and positive slippage…

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October 20, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group FX Futures ADV grows 57% MoM

International derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced September's overview of FX futures and options. Here are some of the highlights: FX Futures September 2016 FX Futures ADV of 904,263 ($88.1 billion notional) FX Futures ADV grew 57% from August and is up 3% compared to September 2015 Volume growth trend in emerging market…

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October 20, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

PineByte updates FX Junction social trading website

FinTech company PineByte has released its new social trading website, FX Junction. The open social trading network, FX Junction is now mobile friendly and offers many new features to engage its members to easily communicate with each other, analyze and learn from the performance of themselves and others with the goal to make better trading…

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October 20, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC adds Dukes Copy Limited to its alert list

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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October 20, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Social trading platform Collective2 claims to have passed $50 million in investor capital

Social and copy trading platform Collective2 has announced that it has surpassed $50 million dollars in investor capital linked to strategies on the platform. The increase represents a gain of over 30% in assets-following-strategies (AFS) from the prior quarter. The comapny stated that the growth has come from both traditional accounts and the recent introduction of…

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October 20, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Central Option gets yet another warning, this time from Swiss regulator FINMA

After already getting several warnings from different regulators, such as the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) and Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), binary options broker Central Option got another warning, this time from the Swiss regulator FINMA. Although this latest warning's got a long way to go to reach the…

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