China’s Forex regulator said over the weekend that it will ramp up risk control efforts, push ahead with regulatory reforms and look to accelerate the development of the worlds second largest economy's Forex market further in 2016. Within the past year we have seen numerous global financial cities open up Renminbi hubs in preparation for…
Read moreFidessa Group plc (LON:FDSA), a provider of trading, investment and information solutions to the financial sector, today announced the appointment of Ken Archer, a non-executive director of the company, as Chairman of its Remuneration Committee. The appointment is effective January 8, 2016, with Mr Archer also becoming a member of the Nominations Committee on the…
Read moreWhat is driving all these changes at leading UK online brokers? In one word: mobile.
Read moreOnline trading services provider FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) today announces a collaboration with software developer PFSOFT that will see FXCM provide trade execution and market data to the PFSOFT Protrader multi-asset solution through FIX API. PFSOFT has integrated FXCM's FIX API, which offers both FX and CFD execution. As a result of this collaboration, each broker…
Read moreRetail Forex broker EXNESS has become the latest company to join the lineup of firms adding the web version of the popular MetaTrader 4 (MT4) platform to their offering. Clients of EXNESS can login with their existing account credentials and trade directly via WebTerminal without having to download or install any program. No additional registration is…
Read moreItaly's financial markets regulator Consob has started the new year by publishing one more warning against a Forex company. The regulator today issued a warning against Forex firm Zar FX. The warning states that Zar Forex Capital Markets Ltd, RGV Media Ltd and RGV Holdings Ltd are not authorized to provide investment services in Italy…
Read moreThe following guest post is one of a series courtesy of Marco Streng, CEO and Co-founder of Genesis Mining. [divide] The value of Bitcoin has been indisputably volatile since its inception. Rising from only a few cents in 2010 to over $1,200 in 2013 then dropping down to $400 where it has remained for much of…
Read moreThe last time the Canadian Dollar had a 60-something US cents handle the calendar read 2003. Most retail forex brokers we know today hadn't yet been founded. Affectionately known as the Loonie thanks to the picture of a loon on one side of the coin (Canada's two-dollar coin is called a Toonie), the CAD is…
Read moreThomson Reuters Corporation (TSE:TRI) has just published the operating metrics for its Forex electronic trading platforms Matching, FXall and the Thomson Reuters SEF for December 2015, with trading volumes registering gains in monthly terms, following a weak November. The annual comparison, however, was less positive, with spot volumes recording a double-digit drop. Let’s take a…
Read moreTaiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) has just published its operating metrics for December 2015, with Yuan FX futures staging a recovery after a subdued November. In December 2015, monthly trading volumes with USD/CNH FX Futures (RHF) amounted to 9,381 contracts, up 86% from the 5,047 contracts traded in November 2015. The monthly volumes for USD/CNT FX…
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