MetaQuotes Software, the developer of the popular trading platforms MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5), has announced the pending launch of MT4 Build 910 on Thursday, November 12, 2015. The new build contains a number of fixes and improvements, including enhanced work with MQL4 programs. In the new build, downloading of MQL4 programs from…
Read moreThe following guest post is courtesy of Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional FX at Advanced Markets. — The world of online Retail FX has become increasingly competitive and congested but, regardless, the industry remains extremely attractive to investors, insiders and entrepreneurs alike. One key factor adding to the attraction is the ease by which a person…
Read moreThe “earnings season” continues at full speed, with Markit Ltd (NASDAQ:MRKT) adding its voice to the chorus of companies seeing their revenues rise in the third quarter of 2015. Markit attributed the rise in the third-quarter revenues to successful acquisitions, including the acquisition of DealHub, which was completed in September 2015. DealHub has joined Markit's…
Read moreThe Hong Kong authorities have shown they are capable of rigid actions against unlicensed Forex companies... The Court of First Instance has granted various interim orders against Maxim Capital Limited (Maxim Capital), an unlicensed investment firm, including freezing all its assets in Hong Kong totalling approximately HK$23.5 million ($3.03 million). The court decision was made…
Read moreThe Financial Conduct Authority today published a special report to Her Majesty’s Treasury on the feasibility and practicalities of developing a regulatory sandbox. The latter is supposed to be a ‘safe space’ in which businesses can test innovative products, services, business models and delivery mechanisms without immediately confronting all the normal regulatory consequences of engaging…
Read moreNumerix LLC, a provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, today announced the integration of OneMarketData's OneTick enterprise data management platform. The platform is now integrated into the Numerix CrossAsset analytics suite. OneTick provides clean, consistent, normalized real-time and historical global market data and analytics. The unified solution offers Numerix customers a…
Read moreTaiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) has earlier today published its operating metrics for October 2015, with the month showing a recovery in trading volumes, including RMB futures volumes, after a subdued September. The Exchange set a record last month, as the total trading volume from January to October 12, 2015 reached 202,878,207 contracts, breaking the previous…
Read morebwin.party Digital Entertainment Plc (LON:BPTY), which is about to be acquired by GVC Holdings PLC (LON:GVC), announced today that Daniel Silvers, a Non-Executive Director, is stepping down from the Board with immediate effect. Mr Silvers was appointed to bwin.party's Board in May 2014 as nominee on behalf of one of the Company's shareholders, SpringOwl Gibraltar…
Read moreThere is an interesting piece of news confirming the growing interest in Chinese yuan trading. According to a report in the Financial Times, HSBC Holdings plc (LON:HSBA) is about to become a market-maker for trading the renminbi and the Swiss franc in the country's interbank Forex market. HSBC, known as a long-standing advocate of the…
Read moreOzforex Group Ltd (ASX:OFX), an international provider of online payment services, has earlier today posted a set of robust financial metrics for the six months to September 30, 2015, that is, the first half of the Group's fiscal year 2016. Turnover for the six months to September 30, 2015, amounted to A$10 billion (US$ 7.05…
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