France's financial markets regulator AMF today issued a warning concerning the growing trend of companies abusing the details (such as names, images, website details, etc.) of authorized providers of binary options services. The French watchdog notes that this practice has affected UK Forex and binary options brokers and that it is very hard to detect.…
Read moreRetail Forex broker EXNESS has stayed true to its transparency commitment and has just published its key operating metrics for February 2016. And although trading volumes fell in monthly terms, they staged a decent rise in annual terms. EXNESS registered monthly trading volumes of $192.4 billion, down 2.5% from the reading of $197.3 billion for January…
Read moreShortly after releasing a new build of its Trader Workstation (TWS) platform, online trading services provider Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) is already working on further enhancements of the solution. Amid the improvements, currently available in the TWS (beta) build 956, are new alerts - Daily P&L Alerts on Positions. As the name of the new…
Read moreRetail Forex broker RoboForex keeps enhancing the capabilities of the WebTrader platform, with the latest news in this respect being that the broker has updated the platform and that it is now completely optimized for mobile trading. The company promises that the trading process will be comfortable even for owners of small screen resolution and diagonal…
Read moreThe Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has announced the renouncement of the authorization as Cyprus Investment Firm (CIF) of Plasma Enterprises Ltd, which provides investment services via www.plasma.com.cy. The regulatory announcement, dated March 2, 2016, says that the company renounced the authorization itself on February 22, 2016. The authorization with Νumber 040/04 lapsed from…
Read moreJust a couple of days after Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) established a Fintech Contact Point, there is one more good bit of news for the financial technology industry in Hong Kong, as Thomson Reuters announced its collaboration with FinTech accelerator SuperCharger. The new partnership, announced today, aims to bring technology and market…
Read moreThe Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong has earlier today updated its Alert List, adding two new clones of investment giant BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK). The websites www.blackrockltccn.com and www.vipblackrockltccn.com belong to companies that misuse the details (such as the name) of the licensed company. In fact, they have nothing to do with the…
Read moreMulti-asset trading and investment services provider Saxo Bank and international derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announce a content-sharing agreement that makes CME Group’s educational materials available to Saxo Bank’s clients across the globe. CME Group’s Futures Institute, initially launched in January 2015, collaborates with industry partners to offer top-quality education aimed at providing market…
Read moreFollowing a very strong January, markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services ICAP plc (LON:IAP) reported a decline in trading volumes on its EBS Forex platform during February 2016. Average daily volumes at EBS amounted to $102.6 billion in February 2016, down 1% from the January 2016 reading of $103.8…
Read moresmartTrade Technologies, a multi-asset electronic trading solutions pioneer, announces today that Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV), a Swiss cantonal bank, has released a new hosted FX solution to trade Spot, Forward, Swaps and Precious Metals based on smartTrade’s LiquidityFX. BCV was looking for an end-to-end e-FX trading solution to replace their existing one. smartTrade’s LiquidityFX out-the-box…
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