The Bank of Russia today announced the award of the first ever Forex dealer license in Russia, with the recipient being FINAM Forex, the company which first applied for the coveted authorization about a month ago. Given that the regulator has up to 60 days to review the applications for Forex dealer licenses, we can safely…
Read moreFXCM shares were actually up 69% at one point, after management gave shareholders hope that there might be life after Leucadia.
Read moreProvider of trading solutions for the binary options industry anyoption is launching its binary options trading service in South Africa under a partnership formed between Ouroboros Derivatives Trading Partners and Basfour 3773 PTY Ltd, a licensed financial services provider (FSP 42020) in South Africa. The collaboration with Basfour makes anyoption one of the handful of regulated…
Read moreJapan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has just updated the list of investment companies that unlawfully target Japanese investors. The pool of latest additions includes the name of Shiny Maple Limited, operating as OptionMart. The latter is a binary options broker offering its services via https://www.optionmart.net. The company provides an address in the Seychelles but as…
Read moreRetail Forex and CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) today declared an interim dividend in respect of the six-month period to June 2015 of $0.2121 per share, giving a total of $24.37 million. The announcement is in tune with an earlier statement from the company, following the cancellation of the planned acquisition of the broker by Playtech PLC…
Read moreSpread cutting continues across Japanese Forex brokers. Just a day after DMM.com Securities said it was reducing the spreads on eight currency pairs, another Japanese Forex broker added to the group of companies seeking to attract more traders via lucrative trading conditions. GMO Click Securities, part of GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), today announced it is…
Read moreLeading Australian retail Forex and CFD broker AxiTrader today announced the addition of the Nikkei 225 index to its lineup of tradable stock market indices. Nikkei 225 is Japan’s most widely monitored index of stocks. It represents the largest 225 companies on the Tokyo stock exchange and includes some of the world’s most recognisable corporate names,…
Read moreFXCM Inc. (NYSE:FXCM) today just reported certain key customer trading metrics for November 2015 for its retail and institutional Forex trading business. It has been a down month overall as we head to the close of the year, chief competitor to FXCM, GAIN Capital reported it's lowest volumes since February of 2015 at $229.5 billion, FXCM still leads the…
Read moreIn tune with an earlier announcement, international network of exchanges and clearing houses Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE:ICE) today said it completed the $5.2 billion acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation (Interactive Data), a provider of financial market data, analytics and related trading solutions. Following the deal completion, Interactive Data becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of ICE. Interactive…
Read moreQuestrade, Inc., headquartered in Toronto, a Canadian provider to high-speed, direct access trading in the U.S. and Canadian stock and options markets through its IQ trading platforms, as well as Forex and CFD trading has announced today a new responsive mobile trading platform, integrated directly into a new client website. For trading clients, they'll be able to…
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