June 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Leverate restructuring amid layoffs and employee reassignments - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that trading platform and technologies provider Leverate is undergoing a series of internal changes, including a number of layoffs and reassignment of employees to different roles and departments. The changes are apparently happening as the company has had some difficulty with its start-a-forex-brokerage campaign, an area which has become increasingly…

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June 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Valutrades adds Monex's Jeffrey Ng as a director - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated retail forex broker Valutrades has tightened its relationship with Indonesia's Monex Investindo Futures, by adding Monex's Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Sales Officer Jeffrey Ng (pictured at left) as a non-executive Director. Ng will be bringing Valutrades expertise in marketing, performance management and systems and controls for…

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June 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

MetaQuotes reports 10 brokers offering MT5 for DGCX trading

One year after we reported that Abu Dhabi based investment bank and broker Menaсorp became the first DGCX member to offer the MetaTrader 5 (MT5) platform, MT5 developer MetaQuotes Software has announced that the number of brokers offering trading on the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) via MT5 has now increased to 10. The major players in the Middle East…

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June 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Top 10 Forex Trading Mistakes

This article was written by Yael Warman, Content Manager at Leverate. It is often said that we learn from our mistakes. I believe that to be true. I believe that making a mistake isn’t necessarily a mistake. Repeating the same mistake however, that is a mistake. In trading, when a mistake isn’t corrected, it can…

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June 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Bats expands in Europe with launch of 18 new UK focused stock indices

Kansas City based financial exchanges operator Bats Global Markets Inc (BATS:BATS) has announced that its European arm, Bats Europe, is launching a UK-focused benchmark index series. Bats will launch 18 different indices covering large to small cap securities and 12 industry sectors. The indices were developed in consultation with investors and index users, to offer a robust and…

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June 11, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Belize financial regulator warns on 'Profitable Forex EA' fraud

Today the International Financial Services Commission of Belize (IFSC) whom regulates many Forex brokers and international financial firms, notified that an entity calling itself ‘Profitable FX EA’ is falsely and fraudulently representing that it is licensed by the International Financial Services Commission of Belize. You can see the fake license emanating from their website below. The website also claims this…

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June 10, 2016 BY Mike Fox

TMX Group announces resignation of CFO as he bolts to NASDAQ

TMX Group Limited today announced that Michael Ptasznik, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), has resigned from the organization to pursue an opportunity with The NASDAQ Stock Market. Mr. Ptasznik joined TMX Group in 1996 as Director of Finance Planning and Analysis and became CFO in 2000. As CFO, he led the company's finance, corporate development and strategic…

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