First reported a couple of weeks ago on LeapRate, we interviewed CEO of FXStreet Carolina May regarding the new FXStreet beta version which was slowly being rolled out. Today, the beta has become live on www.fxstreet.com. The new website goes live before the new trading week begins. FXStreet hopes to capitalize on new screen resolutions…
Read moreForex industry news at LeapRate was certainly dominated this week by IPO fever. With equity markets especially for tech and growth companies in both the US and Europe having a hot start to 2016, companies having the results to back up their stories are now looking to go public. And the Forex sector is no exception.…
Read moreRetail FX broker Alpari Limited has earlier today published its operating metrics for March 2016, with the trading volumes staying virtually unchanged from February 2016 levels. A slight month-on-month change can be seen as a good result, given the steep drop in volumes that many FX companies reported for March 2016. Alpari's trading turnover amounted to…
Read moreA follow-up to LeapRate's report about DDoS attacks affecting Exness' services... In an email today, the retail FX broker addressed its partners warning of them a temporary server interruption due to DDoS. The first problems emerged last week, affecting the company's website, whereas another attack targeted the broker's trading servers. The company stresses that the personal…
Read moreMahiFX, a brokerage with licenses in Australia and New Zealand, has presented its clients with a new and sleek website design. Visitors of the corporate website (mahifx.com) are now greeted with a much cleaner view of the broker's offering, with the stress on MahiFX's e-FX Engine Room - a range of products that have been…
Read moreA follow-up to LeapRate's earlier report about Bats Global Markets, Inc. planning an initial public offering on the Bats BZX Exchange... Bats today announced the pricing of its IPO at a price to the public of $19.00 per share – this is the upper end of previously forecast range of $17.00 - $19.00 per share. The…
Read moreThe UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today published an Occasional Paper, dedicated to high-frequency trading (HFT) and examining whether high-frequency traders (HFTs) prey on other market participants. The paper, authored by Matteo Aquilina and Carla Ysusi, both working in the Chief Economist’s Department of the Financial Conduct Authority, examines claims that HFTs can predict when…
Read moreLeapRate has learned that Avail Trading Corp., the California-based introducing broker which operates as ATC Brokers, has reached a settlement with its former client George Bos. As reported earlier by LeapRate, Bos had won a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against ATC and its CEO David Manoukian in January 2016 totaling $1.6 million. Following…
Read moreXTB Online Trading parent company X-Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA has filed details of its planned IPO with the Warsaw Exchange. The company also released detailed financial information, which revealed that the XTB group brought in revenues of PLN 275 million (USD $72 million) in 2015, earning profit of $30 million. Revenues were up 39% in…
Read moreEddie Astanin, Chairman of the Executive Board of Russia's National Settlement Depository, part of the Moscow Exchange group of companies, has been re-elected to the Board of Directors of the self-regulated non-commercial organization, the National Financial Association. The re-election was made in accordance with a resolution passed at the annual general shareholder meeting of the National Financial…
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