January 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FXSpotStream joins Forex trade body FXPA

The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA), a Forex trade body that commenced operations in September 2014, on Wednesday announced the addition of one new member. FXSpotStream, a provider of multibank FX aggregation services, has joined FXPA as an Associate Member. “As a bank-owned consortium bringing greater transparency and efficiencies to the FX market, FXSpotStream is pleased…

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January 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

First Derivatives partners with analytics company Utilismart

Provider of software and consulting services First Derivatives plc (LON:FDP) is further expanding the footprint of its Kx technology via a partnership with Utilismart Corporation, a meter data management and analytics company with more than 100 clients including electricity, water and gas utilities across North America. FD said today that it has signed a Memorandum…

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January 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Bitcoin firm BTCS generates 1,797 bitcoins in FY 2015

BTCS Inc (OTCMKTS:BTCS), formerly known as Bitcoin Shop, Inc., has provided a performance update for last year and struck a positive note about its future operations. The blockchain technology focused company said it generated 1,797 bitcoins for the year ended December 31, 2015 from its transaction verification services, a jump of 3,389% over total bitcoins…

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January 13, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FxGrow joins lineup of FX brokers with redesigned websites

The trend of Forex companies launching redesigned websites to meet the sophisticated demands of traders and to offer a mobile friendly environment is gathering pace. The latest company to join the growing group of brokers redesigning their websites is FxGrow, a CySEC-regulated retail Forex broker. FxGrow's website has been overhauled with a special focus on…

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January 13, 2016 BY Mike Fox

GKFX to provide algorithmic trading through Tradeworks

Forex brokerage GKFX will get access to Tradeworks’ proprietary provisioning portal and API, which enables a fully integrated, real-time, client provisioning experience. GKFX, an FCA regulated broker announced today it has partnered with Copenhagen, Denmark based financial trading technology company Tradeworks. Under the agreement GKFX will make the Tradeworks algorithmic trading tool available to their global client…

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January 13, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

eToro adds Public History feature to new platform

Social investment expert eToro today announced the addition of a new feature to the new eToro platform. The company notes that since the new eToro was launched in November 2015, traders have come up with interesting suggestions and requests, with the two most requested features being Public History and Trailing Stop Loss. As the Public History feature has…

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January 13, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Bank of New York Mellon accused of overcharging customers on Forex fees from ADR dividends

Reuters pointed out today that Bank of New York Mellon Corp (NYSE:BK) has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit accusing it of skimming millions of dollars from clients by overcharging for currency conversions for American Depository Receipt dividends. Filed on Monday of this week in a Manhattan federal court, the lawsuit accused the world's biggest custody…

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January 13, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

TradingView tells of FXCM data issues

Financial visualization platform TradingView on Tuesday experienced issues with data from one of its FX and CFD data providers – FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM). The problem, which affected FXCM native apps and external charting platforms, such as TradingView, was swiftly solved, but left a gap in FXCM data. Below is the full announcement from TradingView: Today one…

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January 13, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

eToro's updated app for Android offers seamless switching between Real & Virtual accounts

Social investment expert eToro has earlier this month released a new version of its Social Trading application for Android devices, further improving the experience for fans of mobile trading. The new version (2.27) of the application offers the following enhancements: Seamless switching between Real & Virtual accounts; Updated menu layout; Improvements and bug fixes. The application…

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