The Warsaw Stock Exchange and Haitong Bank today announced they have signed a cooperation agreement. In order to support both parties development, the agreement provides for mutual exchange of information about the prevailing situations on the capital markets in which both institutions operate. The WSE also signed a similar agreement with CSAHK – Chinese Securities…
Read moreRetail forex broker Alpari has announced the release of the Alpari Options mobile application for smartphones using the iOS operating system. All of the strategies, instruments and timeframes which are in the web version of the terminal in myAlpari are available in the new application. The application works on all devices with iOS 8.0 and…
Read moreHong Kong financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued a warning regarding two websites operating as clones of regulated broker South China Forex Limited and its affiliated companies South China Capital Limited, South China Research Limited, South China Securities Limited and South China Commodities Limited, all of which are SFC-licensed corporations. The near-identical sites - nhjr999.com…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned, via filings made to the London Stock Exchange, that investment and mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments has built up a 5.22% position in FCA regulated online brokerage firm CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX). Headquartered in Boston MA, Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest investment management and mutual fund companies. Fidelity has…
Read moreFX trading technologies provider Integral Development Corp has announced the formal launch of its OCX RiskNet product. OCX RiskNet is a mid-point matching engine by which Integral’s customers such as Retail Forex brokers, banks and investment managers can offset their risk safely and anonymously with other customers. OCX RiskNet is a part of Integral's OCX Open…
Read moreContinuing our coverage of what promises to be a very volatile week in the financial markets, leading European index futures were indicating to open up big, as bullish momentum swept European markets following end-of-weekend polls supporting the Remain side of this Thursday's Brexit referendum in the UK. With Brexit fears easing, the main winner in…
Read moreLeading Australia-based retail forex broker AxiTrader has posted changes to the trading conditions on GBP currency pairs and certain other financial instruments, ahead of this Thursday's Brexit referendum in the UK. As predicted by many market analysts, each new poll and change in expected outcome of the very-close race is causing a lot of volatility…
Read moreMost FX research analysts predicted volatility this week, and it looks like they are going to get it. With currency trading restarting as the weekend turned to Monday morning in the Far East, weekend polls showing a marked jump for the #VoteRemain side were clearly supporting a jump in the British Pound. The GBPUSD pair was…
Read moreIt was another week of exclusive Forex Industry News stories on LeapRate, as we once again brought to light all of the big industry-changing stories before anyone else. Change was the order of the week in the Forex sector. LeapRate broke the news of a major restructuring and layoffs at forex platform stalwart Leverate, CySEC's new…
Read moreMost of our coverage of Brexit and its impact on Forex trading has been of the one sided type - that it, leading Forex brokers raising required margin requirements and limiting leverage ahead of expected volatility and an expansion of spreads around the June 23 referendum in the UK. Well here's a change. Citing increased…
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