May 01, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Industry Week Review - Goldman Sachs starts online retail bank, CMC adds binary options, ETX headed for IPO, and lots more

Forex industry news at LeapRate this past week was headlined by some old faces in new places. Or more precisely, some big name brands making some big additions and changes. The one large global financial brand which is closely linked with online trading, Goldman Sachs, opened its own online retail outfit for the first time called GSBank.com.…

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April 30, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FastMatch registers 6.9% MoM increase in FX ADV in April 2016

Institutional electronic FX platform FastMatch saw its trading volumes rise in April 2016 in both monthly and annual terms. Average daily volumes amounted to $10.8 billion in April 2016, up 6.9% from the result of $10.11 billion registered in March 2016. In annual terms, the comparison was even more positive, as the ADV in April…

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April 29, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

TradingView rolls out Charting Library 1.5 with second-based timeframes

Financial visualization platform TradingView announces today the release of its Charting Library 1.5 (stable). The new version introduces many new improvements and bug fixes, which were requested and reported by TradingView's community. What’s new: Second-based timeframes. It is now possible to plot “X” seconds charts now, for example a 5-second or 20-second charts. Maximized panes.…

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April 29, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CBOE Holdings sees net income increase 16% Y/Y in Q1 2016

CBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:CBOE), the holding company for Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) and other subsidiaries, has just posted a set of robust financial metrics for the first three months of 2016. Net income allocated to common stockholders amounted to $49.2 million in the first quarter of 2016, up 16% from…

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April 29, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Z.com Trade adds Visa/MasterCard to funding methods

Z.com Trade, a UK-based subsidiary of GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), has widened the variety of funding methods available to its clients via the addition of debit/credit card deposits. Now, clients of the broker can fund their accounts with Visa, MasterCard, Maestro and Visa Electron branded cards, with the service available 24 hours a day.…

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April 29, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Japanese FX broker Monex to stop offering Tradable platform

Monex Inc, the Japanese Forex subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc.(TYO:8698), has announced its plans to terminate the support of trading platform Tradable, which it started offering in November 2014. The end of the service is scheduled for July 29, 2016. The rationale for the move includes “various circumstances”. Monex says customers will be able to…

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