March 10, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

China-focused FX broker C7 launches using Leverate's LXSuite platform

Forex and Binary Options platform provider Leverate has announced a new client relationship with C7, a new generation broker focused on China and South East Asia, which will Leverate's feature social trading and mobile platform capabilities. With Leverate’s support, C7 is expanding their market coverage to the Greater China Region and South East Asia this year. The…

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March 10, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Thomson Reuters makes all financial content sets available in Eikon

Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) today announces that its flagship financial desktop, Eikon, now offers all of its financial content sets from one platform. As a result of the enhancements, Thomson Reuters Eikon customers get access to I/B/E/S estimates, Reuters news, StarMine quant models, a set of environmental, social and governance (ESG) measures, a Deals database,…

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March 10, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Russia's KROUFR blacklists MXTrade

Russia’s Commission for the regulation of relations in the financial market (KROUFR) today added Forex broker MXTrade to its “Black List”. Clients of the broker have complained that they are unable to withdraw their profits generated from trading. Instead, the company allows them to withdraw only the initially invested money. The company does not respond…

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March 10, 2016 BY Mike Fox

U.S. Forex brokers drop record 8.2% in assets for January 2016

January data from just released CFTC reports filed by January 31st reveal that Forex brokers within the United States for January dropped 8.9% in assets to fall under the $500 million handle to $499,339,084 from $544,087,054 reported in December of 2015 (see graph above). Notable changes which recently have occurred in the report is the removal of MB Trading when back in…

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March 10, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Russia's NSD enables connecting to SWIFT via certified Service Bureau

Russia’s National Settlement Depository, part of the Moscow Exchange Group or Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX), announces today that it has introduced services of the certified Service Bureau of SWIFT in the Russian market. The SWIFT Service Bureau is an organization which secures full access to all SWIFT services and is responsible for organizing interactions with…

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March 10, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

What today's ECB meeting means for FX markets

The following article is based on research by Marshall Gittler, Head of Investment Research for FXPRIMUS. [divide] FXPRIMUS Indicators and events for Thursday, March 10th The main event today is of course the ECB meeting. I wrote an extensive piece (available in the Special Reports section of the FXPRIMUS  website) that I presented as a…

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March 10, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

How TraderMade brings Big Data to the FX industry

In the FX industry, there is an increasing need for high-quality data and technology to ensure that financial institutions’ compliance departments are equipped to handle the deluge of data generated every day by the $5.3 trillion FX industry. Tradermade Systems Limited has built an entire business around meeting and exceeding customers’ needs when it comes to…

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March 10, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Allocated Bullion Exchange (ABX) boosts liquidity with Finemetal Asia deal

Allocated Bullion Exchange (ABX), the world’s first global institutional electronic exchange for allocated physical precious metals, has today announced that it has added established Hong Kong based physical precious metals trading house Finemetal Asia as a member of the ABX. The strategic partnership will extend the liquidity provision for members of the ABX and enhance…

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