In tune with LeapRate's earlier reports, UK spreadbetting, CFD and Forex broker CMC Markets today announces the launch of a new website created by The BIO Agency: www.cmcmarkets.com/en-gb. The new website is rolled out as CMC inches closer to an IPO on the London Stock Exchange. As part of the website redesign, The BIO Agency helped…
Read moreRetail Forex broker FBS, which focuses on Asian clients, has announced the opening of a new office in Thailand. This is the second office that FBS opens in the country's capital – Bangkok. It also has an office in Chiang Mai. The new office in Thailand's capital welcomes current and new clients and partners of…
Read moreInteractive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR), a major online trading services provider, has just released a new and updated version of its IB TWS application for Android devices. The latest version of the application enables traders to actually take their scanners with them, as IB TWS for Android now downloads and displays scanners a trader has…
Read moreIt looks like he won't be retiring after all. LeapRate has learned that Saxo Bank co-founder and longtime co-CEO Lars Seier Christensen has set up a new venture capital firm called, appropriately, Seier Capital. The Seier Capital website went live this week at www.seiercapital.com. Lars Seier Christensen resigned from Saxo Bank’s Board of Management after 20 years…
Read moreJapanese online trading services provider GMO Click Securities, part of GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), has just posted its operating metrics for January 2016, with both over-the-counter Forex volumes and on-exchange trading volumes registering a steep rise from December 2015 levels. Let's examine the particular results for January 2016: GMO Click reported OTC Forex volumes…
Read moreLess than a month after binary platform provider and operator TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) completed formation of a joint venture with the owners of Optionfortune Trade Limited, a company registered in Hong Kong to operate a B2C binary options trading platform focused on the Asia Pacific region, TechFinancials makes another move towards beefing up its binary options…
Read moreIn contrast to what the bulk of the industry has displayed thus far, ASX posted a double-digit drop in futures trading volumes in January 2016. According to ASX’s market activity report for January 2016, out earlier today, futures and options on futures volume amounted to 9,122,612 contracts, a reading which is 24.1% lower than in…
Read moreOnline trading services provider Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698) has just posted its operating metrics for January 2016, with market volatility obviously helping the company see some robust metrics in the first month of the new year. Global Forex volumes, that is Forex volumes across all of Monex's subsidiaries, amounted to $37.9 billion, up 28.5% from…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned that clients of discount US online stockbroker TradeKing were unable to execute buy and sell orders via the company’s website for a while both yesterday (Monday) and this morning. A company representative confirmed to LeapRate that TradeKing was experiencing some server issues, and that the company’s website was not communicating properly…
Read moreDeutsche Bank AG (ETR:DBK) today announced that it has implemented an electronic ERP integration solution for Bosch’s foreign currency and RMB cross-border payments in China. Deutsche Bank’s ERP integration solution enables Bosch to streamline its accounts payables processes in China introducing electronic processing of physical documents and the associated regulatory reporting. Headquartered in Germany, Bosch is a…
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