December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

France's AMF adds five Forex brokers to “Black List”

France's financial markets authority AMF has earlier today updated its “Black List” of unauthorized Forex brokers targeting French investors. The regulator added five new names to the list: www.consorfx.com / Trading Technologies HK Ltd; www.equitycapitals.com / Equity Capitals Ltd; www.ifx4u.com / The Oklycapital Limited; www.imcbroker.com / Nordane Group Ltd; www.investocopy.com / Investocopy Ltd. Some of…

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December 17, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM's wild ride continues: shares up 36% Wednesday

As we predicted earlier this week when the announcement was made, FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) shares are in for a lot of volatility and speculation until the company clarifies the situation. Which announcement? And what situation? First, the stats on FXCM shares the past three trading days: Mon Dec 14 - Closing price $8.08, up 52%…

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December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

UK CMA clears merger of Betfair and Paddy Power

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today announced that it has decided not to refer the anticipated merger of Paddy Power plc and Betfair Group Ltd (LON:BET) to a Phase 2 investigation under the provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002, thus giving its consent for the deal to proceed. Betfair expects that the deal,…

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December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Exness announces changes to leverage provision rules

Retail Forex broker Exness on Wednesday informed its clients that it has amended the procedure for changing margin requirements on weekends and holidays. In accordance to the changed rules on providing leverage, increased margin requirements will take effect for orders opened from 19:00 GMT +0 on Friday through 23:00 GMT +0 on Sunday. The margin…

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December 17, 2015 BY Mike Fox

CMC Markets bolsters its board ahead of planned IPO

CMC adds veteran directors Malcolm McCaig and Manjit Wolstenholme to its board. Is an IPO looming? Reports filed today within the UK Companies House registry show that CMC Markets, the UK FCA regulated CFD and spread betting provider has officially appointed two new financial vets in Malcolm McCaid and Majit Wolstenholme to their board of directors. CMC has made their IPO…

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December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

IG Group makes Signal Centre available on mobile apps

Leading provider of online trading services IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has earlier this week released an update to its IG Trading application for iOS-based mobile devices. The latest version (5.7.112) of the solution is remarkable for the fact that it now offers free technical analysis on the go via Signal Centre. Directly from two…

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December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Build 1240 of MT5 platform offers faster operation

MetaQuotes Software, the developer of the popular MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5) platforms, today announced the release of an update to MT5. The enhancements in build 1240 are various but the main ones seem to concern accelerated operations of the terminal. Terminal MT5 now offers accelerated update of the list of open orders…

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December 17, 2015 BY Mike Fox

FXStat brand brokerage OneTrade adds partner program

OneTrade, the FCA regulated financial derivatives broker under Reference Number 537787 which launched officially in Q2 of 2015 has now launched and added a partner program suited for affiliates and introducing brokers. OneTrade is the brand name and broker arm of the company FXStat, the popular social trading and trade analytics platform which now even offers a FX liquidity…

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December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

R3’s distributed ledger initiative boasts 42 bank members

Financial innovation company R3 announced today that it has concluded its distributed ledger bank membership round with the addition of 12 new banks, thus taking the total number of such members to 42. Following its September launch, the company has registered significant interest in the consortium from financial services companies around the world. Recently, LeapRate…

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