Retail Forex and CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has just published a list of its 10 most traded contracts for difference (CFDs) for 2015. The ranking (which you can see on the picture above) features several instruments which one would expect to see. Such examples are Oil, that is, Light Sweet Crude Oil, as well…
Read morePhillip Capital Inc., a Chicago-based firm, which is part of the Singapore-based PhillipCapital Group, on Wednesday announced that it has become a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) member. As a result, Phillip Capital has expanded its financial services offering beyond futures and Forex to include self-clearing corporate equity and debt securities. The company will settle…
Read moreThe People's Bank of China (PBOC) has issued suspension notices to at least three foreign banks regarding their Forex businesses, in a move underlining the stringent controls of the financial sector in China. According to a Reuters report, citing anonymous sources with knowledge of the matter, China's central bank has suspended the banks from conducting…
Read moreThe Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) today announced that it has received a request from Nasdaq Dubai Ltd to obtain designation as the National Numbering Agency (NNA) for the jurisdiction of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The role of the NNA is to accept registration information from issuers of new financial instruments such as…
Read moreIf Forex traders like volatility, then they should absolutely love trading shares of FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM). After a relatively slow week last week, FXCM shares got back on the rollercoaster they have been riding the past while. Monday saw FXCM shoot up from the open, rising a whopping 77% from their Thursday close of $11.15 (there was…
Read moreAfter getting regulatory warnings in Italy and Cyprus earlier this year, Forex broker MXTrade has locked horns with Turkey's vigilant financial regulator – the Capital Markets Board (CMB). In its latest bulletin, which was out on Monday, December 28, 2015, the regulator announced sanctions against the brokerage. The regulator said it had conducted an investigation into the…
Read moreThe Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) today published a warning regarding an online scam involving abuse of the name of the DFSA’s Chief Executive and fraudulent impersonation of employees of Barclays Bank PLC UAE. The case is defined as an advance fee scam, with fraudsters sending e-mails to apparent customers of Barclays telling them to…
Read morePeople's Bank of China (PBOC) on Monday published details regarding regulations of the booming online payments sector, which are set to come into effect on July 1, 2016. The new rules restrict the size of payments done from non-bank payment accounts and introduce certain requirements for registration. In particular, the size of payments through such…
Read moreSocial investment expert eToro on Monday launched an updated Social Trading mobile application for iOS devices. The new version of the solution (10.0) offers a set of enhancements, including: 'Watchlists', so that traders can follow the markets they love and trade. Performance improvements - many screens will now load much faster. Bug fixes. Owners of Android…
Read moreSpotware Systems, the developer of multi-asset trading platform cTrader, keeps enhancing the solution. After releasing a set of exciting updates in November, such as new alerts and free chart moving, the company today announces the addition of three new marketing tools available to brokers. The new tools include: Dividends Payments for Equity CFDs, Dynamic Commission Discounts…
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