September 25, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Industry Week Review: Bankruptcy law gap hurting Alpari UK clients, TempleFX launch, ThinkMarkets revenue growth, and lots more…

LeapRate's Forex Industry News was headlined this week by our exclusive report on how a flaw in UK bankruptcy law is effectively preventing Alpari UK special administrator KPMG from paying back former clients of the bankrupt broker - more than 20 months after Alpari UK entered administration. Our report on the matter has gone viral…

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September 24, 2016 BY Mike Fox

OctaFX launches MT5 accounts adds more instruments

OctaFX, the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines based broker just announced a complete revamp of its trading accounts and conditions. OctaFX has further enhanced conditions on both MT4 and cTrader accounts as well as launching a brand new MT5 Pro Account. OctaFX’s new Pro Account is designed to suit traders who wish to take advantage…

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September 23, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Coinbase removes daily limits for buying and selling Bitcoin

San Francisco based Bitcoin Exchange and provider Coinbase just announced the launch of weekly buy/sell limits on Coinbase. In the past, Coinbase used daily limits. This created frustration as users were forced to come back every day to purchase their maximum amount. The change was made given feedback to the company from users who prefer…

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September 23, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Crane Currency expands with banknote printing facility in Malta

Crane Currency, a rapidly growing global producer of currency products, announced this week plans to build a new banknote printing facility and customer experience center in the country of Malta.  The Malta facility will represent an investment of approximately $100 million for the construction of the factory, the machinery and the equipment. The company expects…

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September 22, 2016 BY Mike Fox

CFTC charges All City Investments which showed fraudulent 2,675% growth in FX trading

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Defendants Jamal Y. Vance and All City Investments, LLC (All City), charging Defendants with solicitation fraud in connection with off-exchange Forex transactions and with failure to register as Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) with the…

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September 22, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Thomson Reuters acquires trading technology company REDI Holdings

Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire REDI Holdings, a trading technology pioneer whose flagship REDIPlus execution management system (EMS) provides advanced cross-asset class trading capabilities to the buy-side. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of Q4 subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals. The REDI acquisition…

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September 22, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

smartTrade Technologies launches cross-asset big data analytics solution smartAnalytics

Multi-asset electronic trading solutions provider smartTrade Technologies has announced the launch of smartAnalytics, a cross-asset big data analytics solution. With smartAnalytics, financial firms will achieve a greater control and transparency by being able to store, analyse and visualise all the data flowing through their trading infrastructure. Data is stored in a secure high performance, fully hosted…

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September 22, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Gold-i opens office in Japan and appoints Head of Sales APAC

Gold-i announced today it is accelerating its growth plans in Asia with the appointment of industry veteran, Hans von der Recke as Head of Sales for Asia Pacific (APAC) and the opening of a new office in Japan. The appointment coincides with Gold-i celebrating eight years in business and restructuring its UK-based sales team to…

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