To mark SaxoTraderGO's 1st anniversary, Saxo Bank has decided to share some of the stats the HTML5 platform has seen and achieved over the past 12 months.
Read moreChicago-based futures brokerage and clearing firm R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO) announces today that its London-based affiliate R.J. O’Brien Europe Limited (RJO Europe) has appointed Peter Jerrom and John Burt as Senior Vice Presidents, Listed Foreign Exchange (FX) Brokers. Mr Jerrom and Mr Burt both previously served as Co-Head of Exchange-Traded FX at Sigma Broking…
Read moreECN trading platform Fortex, Inc. today announces the launch of its xForce Prime of Prime Suite for FX Brokerage companies. xForce Prime of Prime is an end-to-end, prime-of-prime solution aiming to enable banks and brokerages, looking to become FX liquidity providers, to distribute their price streams directly to their partners' systems. FX Brokerages can now onboard…
Read moreAs May advances, we see more companies report their volumes metrics for April 2016. Thus far, it is too early to speak of a coherent pattern of results, as some saw trading volumes rise while others registered declines. ASX, which earlier today published its monthly activity report for April 2016, saw a steep drop in…
Read moreBitPay, a Bitcoin payments solutions company with offices in Atlanta, San Francisco and Amsterdam today launched the BitPay Visa Card, a debit card available to consumers across America in all 50 states. The BitPay Card can be loaded from any bitcoin wallet. There are zero fees on bitcoin top-ups, and you can load up to $10,000 per day in…
Read moreInternational payments services provider OFX, or Ozforex Group Ltd (ASX:OFX), today announces the launch of a 24/7 service, meaning that its customers will be able to transact on weekends too. The move is in line with the corporate strategy that envisages increased focus on customers. The service will enable customers to transact online, speak to…
Read moreThe management of Dukascopy Bank SA, a Swiss bank and a securities dealer, reiterated its commitment to expanding the business via the addition of new licensed brokerage companies. Veronika and Andrey Duka, co-Chief Executive Officers of Dukascopy, voiced this commitment in Dukascopy's annual financial report for 2015. This is in line with previous comments made…
Read moreAperture Group, LLC, the owner of OptionsHouse, which last month got a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) registration, announces today that Lance Braunstein has been appointed as Chief Information Officer. Mr. Braunstein joins Aperture Group from Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. where he served as Managing Director, Global Head of Investment Banking Technology. Prior to his nearly…
Read moreA follow-up to LeapRate's earlier report about the investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of the acquisition of Trayport by Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE:ICE)... Last week, the CMA said that it would refer the merger for an in-depth investigation unless Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) offered necessary undertakings to address the CMA’s competition concerns. The regulator…
Read moreAs was reported on LeapRate back in April, retail forex broker and Forex.com operator Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) issued a notice that its just-released 10-K report and annual financial statements for 2015 should no longer be relied upon, due to errors in the manner in which the Company accounted for income taxes, as well as…
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