April 04, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Saxo Payments Survey: Only 38% of payments-related business think they get competitive FX rates

Saxo Payments, a subsidiary that Saxo Bank established in 2013, today made available a white paper, entitled “Cross Border B2B Payments – Today’s landscape; Tomorrow’s opportunity”. The document states that 63% of payments-related businesses are dissatisfied with the speed of cross border payments, and only 38% believe they get a competitive FX rate. The paper is…

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April 04, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Is it Gambling or is it Trading?

Yael Warman, Content Manager at Leverate, takes an interesting look at a topic that is frequently on the minds of Forex brokers, traders, and regulators: Is Forex trading gambling, or trading? There are differences, but there are also many similarities. People tend to call Forex and Binary Options trading "gambling" and some folks get offended…

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April 04, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Liquidators of defunct FX broker LQD Markets NZ recover only $3,500

There is no happy piece of news for ex-clients of New Zealand Forex broker LQD Markets Limited, which was placed into liquidation shortly after Liquid Markets UK halted its operations following the steep Swiss franc spike on January 15, 2015. The joint liquidators of the New Zealand broker have just published their six-month report – for…

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April 04, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FXTF to add 10 currency pairs to MT4 offering

Japanese Forex broker FX Trade Financial Co., Ltd. (FXTF) is about to beef up its menu of trading instruments on the MetaTrader 4 (MT4) platform. Effective June 1, 2016, the company will be adding 10 currency pairs to the lineup, including: USD/TRY, TRY/JPY, NZD/CHF, NZD/CAD, AUD/CAD, EUR/NZD, GBP/CAD, GBP/CHF, GBP/NZD, CAD/CHF. The additions will take…

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April 03, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Industry Week Review - New websites for FXStreet and Forex.com, CySEC fines, weak March FX volumes, and lots more

Continuing a theme we've seen among many participants in the Forex industry, this week saw LeapRate report exclusively on upcoming website / GUI changes at two of the better know names in Retail Forex: popular trader site FXStreet, and broker Forex.com. Our most popular guest post of the week is courtesy of Leverate's Ben Richter on…

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April 02, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Understanding Financial Markets: Part 1

Anyoption analyst Brett Chatz takes an interesting look at explaining the inter-connectivity of global financial markets. For more of Brett's research see the Anyoption blog. [divide] If we have learned anything from bull markets and bear markets, it is this: neither of them lasts indefinitely. This facts precipitating the global financial crisis of 2008 were…

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April 02, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CBOE Holdings posts 7% MoM decline in ADV in March 2016

CBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:CBOE), the holding company for Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), C2 Options Exchange (C2), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), and other subsidiaries, has published its operating metrics for March 2016. The data fits with the broader picture painted by the bulk of the industry thus far, with trading volumes down from February 2016…

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April 01, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Interactive Brokers registers 14% MoM drop in DARTS in March 2016

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR), one of the major online trading services providers in the US, has just published its key operating metrics for March 2016, with trading activity continuing to lose pace after daily average revenue trades already declined in February 2016. On the brighter side, client equity and client accounts kept climbing in…

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