Hotspot Link launches, offers customers to design private liquidity pools LeapRate

January 26, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Hotspot Link launches, offers customers to design private liquidity pools

Hotspot, a leading institutional Forex market owned and operated by BATS Global Markets (BATS), today announces the launch of Hotspot Link, a new service that enables clients to create unique, relationship-based, liquidity pools in response to their specific trading needs. Liquidity provision in Forex markets is fragmented and institutions use a large group of banks,…

January 26, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Bank of Russia gets tough on Forex advertising

Representatives of the Bank of Russia, the body responsible for the regulation of Russia's Forex industry, and the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation have discussed the different practices of Forex advertising. In an announcement following the discussions, the regulators note that, in accordance with Russia's law on advertising, companies that do not…

January 26, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Forex signal service Signal Start releases fully featured Android app

Signal Start, a professional one stop shop signal service for signal followers and signal providers, made somewhat of a splash in June last year, when it launched after a year in development and in close cooperation with Myfxbook. Since then, Signal Start has been gradually evolving and on Monday it announced the launch of its fully…

January 26, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Plus Connect goes with LOTTOTECH platform to reshape Australia’s online gaming & betting industry

Australian online social gaming operator Plus Connect has teamed up with lottery platform provider LOTTOTECH. The deal will see LOTTOTECH’s online lottery solution initially used for Plus Connect’s online charity lottery product, the Weather Lottery, and eventually launched across the range of Plus Connect’s commercial online lottery products as they are released. The Weather Lottery…

January 26, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Interactive Brokers' VWAP algo to enable speeding up when market nears limit price

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR), one of the major providers of online trading services in the US, keeps enhancing the capabilities of its Trader Workstation (TWS) platform. We have been curious to see what's in store for users of the solution and, so, we took a look at TWS Beta Build 955, which seems to…

January 26, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Andrew Bailey becomes new Chief Exec of UK FCA

Andrew Bailey, the Chief Executive Officer of the UK Prudential Regulation Authority, will take the helm of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). HM Treasury have today announced his appointment as the new CEO of the FCA. Mr Bailey will assume his new role once his successor at the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has been found.…

January 26, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Hisham Mansour's return to Retail Forex - a LeapRate Exclusive Interview

He's back. One of the more interesting and successful personalities in the retail forex business has returned to the sector after a more than two-year self imposed hiatus. After selling his company MIG Bank to Swissquote in late 2013 for $70 million Hisham Mansour is back in the Retail FX game. As we reported exclusively…

January 26, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Samsung Securities starts settling FX transactions in CLS via KEB Hana Bank

CLS Group (CLS), a provider of risk mitigation and operational services for the global Forex market, today announces that Samsung Securities Co., Ltd. (KRX:016360) has become the first non-bank financial institution (NBFI) to join the CLS system via third party access in South Korea. Samsung Securities is now settling Forex transactions in CLS via its…

January 26, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

SafeCharge to provide payments solutions for Proficient City games

SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH), an international provider of payments services, technologies and risk management solutions for online and mobile businesses, has been quite active in signing up new partners lately. Less than a week after the company announced a partnership with Korean-based online games billing and payment solution providing company Payletter, it unveils another…

January 26, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CMC Markets sets price range for IPO at 235p-275p per share

There is one more important announcement from major online trading services provider CMC Markets plc regarding its plans to proceed with an initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange... The company has just announced the price range for the IPO and its intention to publish, later today, the Prospectus for the Offer. The highlights: The…