As per LeapRate's earlier report, a number of clients of US online stockbroker TradeKing had trouble executing buy and sell orders via the company’s website for some time on Monday and Tuesday this week. The company, which appears to be up for sale, has been informing its clients of developments regarding the tech issues and…
Read moreSwiss Forex broker Dukascopy has just released an updated version of its Dukascopy TV application for Android devices. The enhancements in the latest version of the solution include support for Android Smart TV. The application provides viewers with convenient access to the Dukascopy TV, a source of Forex-related shows, with programs aired every day. Dukascopy…
Read moreTaiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) has just published its operating metrics for January 2016, with total trading volumes showing a marked rise in both monthly and annual terms. Overall trading volumes at the Exchange amounted to 28,001,613 contracts in January 2016, up 20.7% from December 2015 levels and up 34.5% from January 2015 levels. As usual, we…
Read moreCME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has just posted its financial and operating metrics for the final quarter and the full year to December 31, 2015, with net income staging a strong rise year on year. Full year 2015 highlights Net income attributable to CME Group for the 12 months to December 31, 2015 amounted to $1.25…
Read moreGMO Click Securities, the Japanese online trading services provider that is a part of GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), today announced pending cuts to spreads on a couple of the most popular currency pairs – EUR/USD and GBP/USD. The spread on EUR/USD will be reduced from its current level of 0.5 pips to 0.4 pips,…
Read morePaysafecard, an international provider of prepaid online payments that is a part of Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS), has announced that it is working with Worldpay and Sony Network Entertainment Europe to enable customers to use paysafecard as a payment option for PlayStation Store (PS Store). The service is initially available in 19 countries, including Austria,…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive Interview... As was first reported on LeapRate at the beginning of this week (the company put out a press release a few days later), international Forex and CFD broker Blackwell Global has just received its FCA license in the UK, more than a year after setting up a team in London. Blackwell Global has…
Read moreInteractive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR, IB), one of the big online trading services provider in the United States, is planning the addition of more chart types on its Trader Workstation (TWS) platform. The latest beta build of IB TWS introduces new products - Hollow Candle and Heikin-Ashi Bar types. Real-time charts now provide two more…
Read moreThe following article is courtesy of Marshall Gitler, Head of Investment Research for FXPRIMUS. [divide] There’s a big mystery in the financial world: why is the output of oil not responding to the fall in the price? A fall in price is a signal that supply exceeds demand. Producers usually respond by cutting back on production. That’s…
Read moreThomson Reuters SEF (Swap Execution Facility) which in January this year obtained permanent CFTC registration captured the bulk of dealer-to-client Forex flows in the final quarter of 2015, according to data from Clarus Financial Technology. The data shows that Thomson Reuters SEF captured 55% of the trading flow in the FX dealer-to-client market segment in Q4…
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