November 24, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

NFA publishes 2015 Annual Review, focusing on protection

The U.S. National Futures Association (NFA) has just published its 2015 Annual Review, entitled “Protection. That's our purpose”, covering the activities of the organization for the period from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015. The document includes the highlights for the period in question, including enforcement actions taken, fines collected and new important rules…

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November 24, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

City Index reports revenues of $35.2M in 9-mo 2015

Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), which in April this year closed the acquisition of City Index (Holdings) Limited, has just published a detailed SEC filing regarding the financial performance of City Index for the fiscal years to March 31, 2014 and March 31, 2015. Along with this audited metrics, GAIN also published City Index's financial results…

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November 24, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Monex sees operating revenues broadly unchanged in October

Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698), the online trading services provider, has earlier today posted its financial metrics for October 2015, with operating revenues staying broadly unchanged from levels seen in September 2015. The company reported operating revenues of JPY 4.23 billion ($34.4m) for October 2015, which is 0.9% down from the result of JPY 4.27 billion…

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November 23, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Eurex Trade Entry Services now available for U.S. based customers

Eurex, one of the world's leading derivatives exchanges with offices stretching from Chicago to Frankfurt to Singapore let it be known today that it had started offering its Trade Entry Services (TES) for customers based in the U.S. as of  November 16th. Eurex’s TES enable trading participants to enter off-book transactions into the Eurex system,…

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November 23, 2015 BY Mike Fox

RoboForex to discontinue Currenex Viking Trader platform

RoboForex today sent an email blast notifying clients that starting on Monday, November 30th 2015, the Currenex Viking Trader trading platform and Viking ECN-Pro NDD accounts will no longer be supported. By 6PM (EET) November 27th 2015, all clients, who trade on Viking ECN-Pro NDD accounts have to: Close all open positions (otherwise, they will be…

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November 23, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Playtech's proposed acquisition of AvaTrade gets called off

A hectic day on the Forex M&A front, and a very heavy day for Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC)... After Playtech announced a termination of its agreement with Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) earlier today, the company saw another proposed acquisition – that of CFD and Forex broker AvaTrade, called off. Playtech's Board has just announced that the shareholders of…

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November 23, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Nadex launches Market Orders with Protection, updates mobile apps

North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc. (Nadex), part of IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), today presented a set of novelties concerning its offering. For starters, in tune with an earlier LeapRate report, Nadex announced the launch of a new order type: Market Order with Protection (MOP). Like a traditional market order, the MOP allows traders to…

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