January 15, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

IG Group appoints Mark Ward as Interim CFO

Leading online trading services provider IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) today announced the appointment of Mark Ward as Interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr Ward is a senior partner at accounting firm Deloitte LLP, and for the last three years he has been at the helm of Deloitte's Investment Management and Wealth sector. He is…

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January 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Saxo Bank, DELTA reinvent energy wholesale market

Saxo Markets, the institutional division of multi-asset trading and investment services provider Saxo Bank, today announced a partnership with DELTA N.V., a Middelburg-based provider of energy, waste management, infrastructure and digital services. The companies seek to disrupt the energy wholesale market by connecting the physical energy world to the financial world. Clients get real time…

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January 14, 2016 BY Mike Fox

FastMatch looks to grab more institutional FX market share with fee reductions

Today FastMatch, the New York headquartered Electronic Communication Network (ECN) platform for Forex trading has notified its clients about their new fee reductions. Effective March 1st, 2016, FastMatch is introducing significant fee reductions to further grab market share. Here are some highlights of the new fee schedule: - $1.50 per million notional for clients trading more than…

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January 14, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Dos and Don'ts when Investing Online

The following guest post is courtesy of eToro, a leading social trading and investment network. [divide] The internet revolutionized the way that millions of people access the global financial markets and invest their money. It takes just minutes to sign up to an online broker and open a trading account. There are hundreds - if…

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January 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Alpari stops offering trading on OptionTrader platform

Retail FX broker Alpari Ltd has stopped offering binary options trading on OptionTrader platform, with fx.option accounts no longer supported. According to an announcement on the company's website, trading using fx.option accounts became unavailable effective January 7, 2016. A comment on Alpari's Russian Forum says that the company stopped supporting the platform on January 11, 2016.…

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January 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Invast Securities sees revenues rise 15.2% MoM in December 2015

Japanese online trading company Invast Securities Co., Ltd. (TYO:8709) has just posted key business metrics for the last month of 2015, with operating revenues recovering from November lows, although lagging behind the robust results seen in December 2014. The company reported operating revenues of JPY 281 million ($2.38 million) for December 2015, up 15.2% from…

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January 14, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Gain Capital and LCG shares each sink to new 52 week lows

It has been a tough week for shares of retail forex brokers. With the backdrop of heavy volatility in the financial markets (mostly in the down direction), shares of some of the better known names among the publicly traded retail forex brokers have also taken a battering. In the US, Forex.com parent Gain Capital Holdings Inc…

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