The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA), a Forex trade body that started its operations in September 2014, has named a new Chair and Vice Chair and has announced new additions to its Board of Directors. The FXPA announces the election of Chip Lowry, Senior Managing Director of State Street Global Markets, as Chair, and Jill…
Read moreSocial trading expert eToro today announces the launch of a new feature, which the company expects to be a real game changer. The addition is called Copy Dividends and means that from now own, copiers get to enjoy the profits of the traders they are copying while copying them (as opposed to enjoying it once the…
Read moreCySEC-regulated Forex broker FXTM (ForexTime) today announces the launch of its new investment program FXTM Invest. FXTM Invest is a flexible program especially tailored to traders who are making their first steps in the trading world, simply do not have much time for trading or lack the necessary patience. The program enables traders to follow…
Read moreRussia's National Settlement Depository (NSD), part of Moskovskaya Birzha MMVB-RTS PAO (MCX:MOEX), have sealed a one-year complex insurance agreement with Ingosstrakh OJSIC. The policy liability limit is set at $65 million for all claims for the duration of the policy. The main re-insurers behind the policy include Lloyd’s syndicates (UK). The policy covers the company’s…
Read moreProvider of FX software and analytical solutions FX Blue continues to beef up the analytical and charting offering for traders. On Saturday, the company announced the launch of a new type of dynamic charts – the new charts show information about winning and losing trades. There are four new charts: totals of wins and losses…
Read moreBack in November, LeapRate reported exclusively that former CMC Markets CEO Roger Hynes had invested in a new mobile social trading app called SwipeStox, the brainchild of former Varengold CEO Yasin Qureshi. (We later ran an exclusive interview with Qureshi on his plans for SwipeStox). Well we're now pleased to be the first to report that SwipeStox has nabbed…
Read moreProvider of online payment services Ozforex Group Ltd (ASX:OFX), which recently rebranded as OFX, today announces the termination of acquisition talks with The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU). In November last year, Western Union submitted an indicative conditional proposal for all of OzForex's issued share capital. Under the proposal, Western Union would have acquired 100% of the…
Read moreKnown mainly in the Forex and online gaming worlds for his controlling interest in Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC), parent company of Retail Forex / CFD brokerage Markets.com, online entrepreneur Teddy Sagi has a number of other public companies in his portfolio. One of those companies, Crossrider PLC (LON:CROS), recently put out a year-end trading update which disappointed investors,…
Read moreBelize's financial regulator. the International Financial Services Commission (or IFSC), has issued a warning regarding a retail investment firm called Arab Gold Bank Ltd operating from website https://arabgoldbank.co. Arab Gold Bank Ltd offers trading and investment schemes in commodities and forex. According to the IFSC, Arab Gold Bank Ltd holds itself out to be registered in…
Read moreAs 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…
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