It isn't just Retail Forex brokers raising margin requirements leading up to next week's Brexit vote. Today the Moscow Exchange put out a note to clients that, due to the UK referendum on membership in the European Union on 23 June 2016, volatility in some instruments traded on Moscow Exchange may potentially increase. To mitigate…
Read moreRetail forex broker FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) continues to report some of the highest FX trading volumes in the industry month by month, with May 2016 coming in at $280 billion. After narrowly avoiding bankruptcy early last year in the immediate aftermath of the January 15, 2015 surprise Swiss Franc spike by securing (over the course of…
Read moreUK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated retail forex broker targeting UK clients, this time regarding TFX Traders operating from website tfxtraders.com. On its website TFX shows that it has offices at 20 Primrose Street, London EC2A 2EW. The FCA warned consumers that TFX Traders is not authorised or licensed by…
Read moreHong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has made a change in the management of some of its key operating subsidiaries. HKEX has announced that its Head of Markets, Kwok Keung (Roger) Lee, has been appointed to replace Romnesh Lamba as Chief Executive of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (“SEHK”) and Hong Kong Futures Exchange…
Read morePayolution makes its Dutch market debut with online retailer Bergfreunde.
Read morePortfolio management specialist Russell Investments has announced that its RFX Network is now a certified end point on the Charles River Network Service, expanding RFX Network’s real-time connectivity to the global financial community. This development bolsters liquidity in the cutting-edge alternative to the London fix. RFX Network, our end-to-end trading solution for the buy-side community, features executable…
Read moreLeapRate readers will have noticed a marked trend recently of retail forex brokers large and small putting out notes to clients that they are increasing required margin on new and existing positions ahead of next Thursday's Brexit vote in the UK. Well CySEC regulated retail forex broker easyMarkets, which rebranded earlier this year from EasyForex,…
Read moreLeapRate has learned that PsyQuation has launched live as of today with a number of retail forex brokers including Pepperstone, IC Markets, Global Prime and AvaTrade. PsyQuation has developed a new way to improve trader performance - and to prevent traders from ‘blowing up’ their accounts - using techniques and technology from the school of Behavioral Profiling. We…
Read moreECN trading platform and technologies provider Fortex has announced that it has just completed a major design overhaul of its flagship MT4 Bridge OMX interface, transitioning over to a progressive HTML5 technology. This new, sleek interface allows users to easily make changes to the quote maker, and other execution configuration parameters, from any web browser, on-the-fly…
Read moreHong 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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