Since the launch of Protrader Multi-Connect (PTMC) as a standalone front-end application in January this year, the solution has been significantly developed and the team behind it keeps taking care of the possibilities available to users of the platform. The improvements concern PTMC platform, but also the website dedicated to the solution, where traders can offer…
Read moreDarwinex continues to enhance the experience for users of its platform, with a number of useful features deployed recently. Information on migrated accounts Traders can import their live track records from other brokers to their Darwinex live trading accounts. Darwinex believes that it is useful for investors to know whether a DARWIN’s track record was…
Read moreICAP Securities & Derivatives Exchange (ISDX), a subsidiary of ICAP plc (LON:IAP), announces today that it has appointed Tom Binks and Michael Berkeley to the ISDX Board. Tom Binks will become independent non-executive Chairman, succeeding Richard Dellabarca who has held the position since 2012 and is relocating back to his native New Zealand. At present,…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive Interview... LeapRate has learned that popular Australia based FX trader education website Traders4Traders has had its Australian financial services (AFS) license fully reinstated by Australian regulator ASIC. We had reported back in February that ASIC had issued a temporary suspension order for Traders4Traders' license, after it found that Traders4Traders failed to lodge financial statements, auditor reports…
Read moreThe following guest post is courtesy of Neil Browning, Head of FX Sales at Saxo Bank. [divide] Volatility is on the rise in the foreign exchange market and remains a classic trader’s conundrum. It’s well documented that when combined with liquidity, volatility creates opportunities across FX, but in periods of excess volatility, for example following…
Read moreShares in Hong Kong FX broker KVB Kunlun Financial Group Ltd (HKG:8077) opened higher today after the company published a positive profit alert for the first quarter of 2016. The board of directors of the company has reviewed the unaudited management accounts for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and, based on the review,…
Read moreSwiss interdealer broker Compagnie Financiere Tradition SA (SWX:CFT) has earlier today posted some financial metrics for the first three months of 2016, with consolidated revenues down in annual terms, but Forex trading business in Japan continuing to perform solidly. Compagnie Financière Tradition reported Q1 2016 consolidated revenue of CHF 219.5 million compared with CHF 227.3m…
Read moreRussia’s Commission for the regulation of relations in the financial market (KROUFR) keeps updating its “Black List” of companies that exhibit characteristics of investment scams. The latest addition to the “Black List” is Interactive Option, a binary options firm registered in Cyprus. KROUFR has received numerous complaints from clients of Interactive Option regarding unfair practices concerning…
Read moreCBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE), a subsidiary of CBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:CBOE), on Thursday announced that multi-asset trading software and services provider Stellar Trading Systems has established connectivity with CFE as an approved independent software vendor (ISV). The new link will provide traders using Stellar Trading Systems’ platform the ability to directly interface with CFE…
Read moreThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today issued an order to extend for one year the pilot period of the National Market System Plan to address extraordinary market volatility, commonly known as the limit up-limit down (LULD) plan. The SEC also approved a modification to the manner in which the LULD plan establishes the…
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