March 15, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

7 attributes of successful salespeople

This article was written by Yael Warman, Content Manager at Leverate. Yael is a creative writer with a strong background in marketing and advertising. Yael has been a writer for over 10 years and has worked for clients in various industries as well as her own companies. Forex sales can be an extremely lucrative profession.…

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March 15, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Fidessa releases new version of Minerva OMS, bolsters buy-side sales team

Provider of trading, investment and information solutions for the financial community Fidessa Group plc (LON:FDSA) today announced the release of the latest version of its Minerva buy-side order management system (OMS). Minerva forms part of Fidessa's Investment Management Solutions suite which offers comprehensive, end-to-end workflow for investment decision, compliance, orders & trading and post-trade across…

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March 15, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Admiral Markets to offer more leverage on CFDs up to 200:1, reduce spreads

Globally regulated Forex brokerage Admiral Markets announced this week an extension on its offering. From the session opening Monday March 28 2016, Admiral Markets CFDs on indices and commodities will be: accessible, via reduced margin requirements and contract size cost effective, via reduced spreads. Leverage enhancements The leverage rate on most popular indices, commodities and CHF currency pairs will…

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March 15, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Hantec Markets redesigns website

FCA-regulated Forex and CFD broker Hantec Markets has just presented the visitors of its website with a fresh new look, in tune with a trend amid retail FX brokers to clear websites of extra textual content and include more visual items. Hantec's redesigned website (www.hantecfx.com) offers sleek interface, enabling easier navigation amid themes and topics interesting…

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March 15, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Plus500 appoints Elad Even-Chen as Group CFO

Online trading services provider Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has just announced the appointment of Elad Even-Chen as Group Chief Financial Officer, effective March 15, 2016. Mr Even-Chen currently serves as the Finance Director and VP Business Development at Plus500 Ltd., is a director of Plus500CY Ltd. He has worked for the broker for the last four years.…

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March 15, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Mexican broker GBM adopts Redline’s InRush market data solution

Provider of intelligent market data and order execution solutions Redline Trading Solutions has announced that Mexican investment and brokerage firm GBM (Grupo Bursátil Mexicano) is deploying Redline’s InRush market data solution to bolster the reliability and lower the latency for market data pricing delivery from the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV). InRush is deployed to the…

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March 15, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Japanese FX broker Hirose inches closer to initial public listing, sets offer price at ¥830 per share

Further to LeapRate's earlier report about Japanese Forex and binary options broker Hirose planning to float on the Tokyo Stock Exchange JASDAQ (Standard), the company has published details about the listing. As previously reported, the initial listing is scheduled for March 18, 2016, with the broker to be listed under the ticker 7185 (ISIN JP3798800003). The…

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March 14, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

IBFX / TradeStation Forex gets $1 million CFTC fine for capital violations

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Plantation, Florida-based IBFX, Inc. (IBFX), formerly known as TradeStation Forex, Inc. IBFX is a wholly owned subsidiary of TradeStation Group, Inc. and a CFTC-registered Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer (RFED). The CFTC order requires IBFX to pay a $1…

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March 14, 2016 BY Mike Fox

CQG adds historical data and research platform Portara to its offering

Portara uses a subscription-based pricing model, making it affordable to any hedge fund or CTA regardless of budget. CQG, a global provider of high-performance trade routing, reliable market data, and advanced technical analysis, has added Portara® to its main product suite. This award-winning historical data extraction and research platform includes historical data from the CQG Data Factory. Portara…

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