Moscow Exchange, or Moskovskaya Birzha MMVB-RTS PAO (MCX:MOEX), the biggest Russian venue for trading shares, Forex and derivatives, has earlier today posted its financial metrics for the third quarter of 2015, with income from the FX market staging a steep rise year on year. Fee & commission income from the FX Market amounted to RUB…
Read moreThe European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on Wednesday announced an update to its list of authorized central clearinghouses (CCPs), which fall within the scope of the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The latest update concerns CME Clearing Europe, a subsidiary of CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME). CME Clearing Europe has been authorised to extend its…
Read moreNew Zealand's Financial Markets Authority (FMA) today confirmed the appointment of Paul Gregory in the role of director of external communications and investor resources. Mr. Gregory will be joining the FMA’s executive committee from the NZ Super Fund where he has been since March 2009, firstly as head of communications before shifting to the investments…
Read moreMonex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698) has earlier today posted its operating metrics for October 2015, with the numbers pointing to sharp drop in Forex volumes from September 2015, when the results were already subdued, as well as to a steep decrease from exceptionally solid October 2014. We should, of course, mention that the results Monex reported…
Read moreIn the wake of relentless DDoS attacks on Forex service providers and their networks, FCM360 has fortified its network security to block the current wave of these distributed denial of service attacks. The attacks are targeting Metatrader 4 servers among other forex trading platform providers. To bolster its network, FCM360, a leading managed cloud operations provider,…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a whistleblower award totaling more than $325,000 for a former investment firm employee who tipped the agency with specific information that enabled enforcement staff to open an investigation and uncover the extent of the fraudulent activity. The whistleblower provided a detailed description of the misconduct and specifically identified…
Read moreUS broker-dealer TradeStation, part of Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698), today announced a partnership with qbeats that has resulted in a new solution being added to the TradeStation TradingApp® Store. qbeats now offers a streaming research and news TradingApp through the marketplace, which features over 800 TradeStation-compatible indicators, strategies and TradingApps. The qbeats TradingApp provides TradeStation…
Read moreThe financial markets watchdog of Canada's Ontario has earlier today updated its Warning List, with the latest addition being Chelestra Limited, operating as LBinary. Chelestra, which gives an address in Gibraltar, offers a raft of binary options trading services via Lbinary (lbinary.com). The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) warns that Chelestra/LBinary is not registered in Ontario,…
Read moreRetail Forex broker RoboForex has implemented changes to the rules about the types of accounts that traders and investors using social trading network CopyFX can open. The changes have been in force since November 3, 2015 – from that day, traders, that is, those whose trades are copied, cannot use cent accounts. These will be…
Read moreRetail Forex broker EXNESS, remaining true to its reputation of a proponent of transparency, has just published its key operating metrics for October 2015. In the face of the overall gloom that we have thus far witnessed when examining reports of Forex volumes for October, EXNESS reported a rise in Forex volumes in both annual…
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