Australia financial regulator ASIC has issued its annual Targeting Scams report as part of Australia's Consumer Fraud Week 2016. The report shows that losses reported to the ASIC's Scamwatch website from investment scams doubled in 2015. ASIC data indicates that a wide variety of scams, including investment and 'get rich quick' scams, continue to hit Australians.…
Read moreLess than two months after Canadian provider of online trading and investment services Questrade announced its partnership with WooTrader, the broker unveils a new addition to its partner centre. The latest addition is web-based, options trading tool Magenta Trader which seeks to simplify the process of finding potential options trades. By using historical seasonal data from…
Read moreOANDA is getting closer to the full-force release of the v20 API, and, in preparation of the launch, the broker has released a preview of the documents which can be found at: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/introduction/. The v20 API has the following new functionalities: Access to v20 accounts; Richer responses; Client extensions; Time in force additions (GTC); Account…
Read moreSwiss provider of online financial and trading services Swissquote Group Holding SA (SWX:SQN) has announced the results of the Annual General Meeting of its shareholders, held on Friday – May 13, 2016. Shareholders voted in favor of all of the proposals put forward by the Board of Directors of Swssquote, including approval for the annual report…
Read moreThe British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) on Friday updated its Investment Caution List, which features the names of unregistered foreign brokerage firms that have solicited investors to open trading accounts, offered them unqualified investments and the names of businesses connected, or purporting to be connected, to British Columbia that have solicited investors in other jurisdictions…
Read moreRussia's Megaregulator has issued two more Forex dealer licenses – to TeleTrade and TrustForex, following the issuance of such a license to FINAM in December last year. At the same time, the Bank of Russia denied authorization to Profit Broker. The regulator did not provide any details regarding the grounds for its decision. Under the terms…
Read moreForex industry news at LeapRate this past week was headlined by results disclosures from a number of FCA regulated brokers. One thing our readers should note when looking at disclosed results of UK companies - some are real, some are not. What do we mean? Well some of the companies report their 'real' results, as…
Read moreBinary Options seem to have taken the investment market by storm. More and more investors are now moving into binary options trading and taking advantage of a fixed high-yield return over traditional Forex profits. In Forex trading, profits are typically dependent on risk appetite and the ability of a trader to properly analyse trends as…
Read moreStarting next Monday, May 16, US investors will be able to buy securities in early-stage companies through crowdfunding. Under new rules effective May 16, 2016 as part of the JOBS Act, the general public can invest in capital raising by start-up companies through crowdfunding, which generally refers to the use of the Internet by small businesses…
Read moreUK and USA registered Bitcoin Exchange CEX.IO has announced today its been added to C.A.T., an automated trading interface using Bitcoin exchanges API. C.A.T. is the most popular and highly reputable trading bot on BitcoinTalk with numerous positive feedbacks from users. The first version of C.A.T. was introduced back in 2013 and has experienced over 50…
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