Clients of retail Forex broker FXPRIMUS enjoyed a meeting with their Manchester City FC Heroes. The event is a part of FXPRIMUS' MCFC Heroes campaign unveiled in March this year. The meeting took place on the Etihad Campus at the Indoor Training Facilities, on April 21, 2016. Winners of the Meet Your Heroes competition plus their…
Read moreMT4 systems integrator Gold-i has formed a strategic partnership with Beeks Financial Cloud to offer further choice to its clients seeking MT4 connectivity and server hosting solutions. Beeks Financial Cloud is the sister company and extension of BeeksFX VPS, the largest global provider of VPS solutions for automated trading. Gold-i’s client base includes start-up brokers…
Read moreLeapRate has learned that Vocalink CFO Claire Hafner has joined as a Director on the board of Monecor London Limited, the parent company of FCA regulated online broker ETX Capital. Payments company VocaLink processes more than 90% of salaries, over 70% of household bills and almost all state benefits in the UK. Last year the company…
Read moreFirst Derivatives plc (LON:FDP) has just announced a strategic partnership for the use of its Kx technology with Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) to power the latest version of their financial Data as a Service platform, Velocity Analytics. The agreement follows a comprehensive review of real-time and in-memory technologies by Thomson Reuters. Velocity Analytics combines real-time…
Read moreA regulatory filing with UK authorities viewed by LeapRate indicates that international accounting firm Deloitte LLP has resigned as auditors of Hirose Financial UK Ltd., the FCA regulated brokerage arm of Japan based retail forex firm The Hirose Group. The resignation took effect as of March 31, 2016. Deloitte did indicate in its resignation letter that…
Read moreHirose Financial UK Ltd has released a new binary options platform - LION Binary Pro. The launch happens in response to clients' feedback and seems to have a robust rationale as during fiscal year 2015, binary options services generated 58% of Hirose UK's turnover. The new platform offers: Three types of charts LION Binary-Pro offers…
Read moreAccording to SWIFT’s latest RMB tracker, the United Kingdom has become the second largest offshore RMB clearing centre, as the UK's RMB payments value rose by 21% between March 2014 and March 2016. The United Kingdom lags behind Hong Kong in the ranking. Singapore overtook the United Kingdom in February 2014, but the trend began…
Read moreInternational clearing house LCH, majority owned by London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LON:LSE), today announces two senior executive appointments, beefing up its Forex team. Effective May 1, 2016, Daniel Maguire will become Global Head of Rates & FX Derivatives. In his expanded role, Mr Maguire will be in charge of the global product and business…
Read moreCQG, a global provider of high-performance trade routing, market data and advanced technical analysis, announced today that it has expanded its connection with Moscow Exchange, the leading exchange in Russia, to now provide equities and FX trading via CQG’s API division, Continuum. This solution enables customers using CQG products to trade equities and FX on…
Read moreLeapRate has learned that Russia based retail forex broker Alpari is terminating its program of paying interest on client deposits. Alpari has sent a note to clients, indicating that from May 1, 2016 it will cease its calculation and crediting of interest on deposits. The final calculations for interest to be credited will take place…
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