November 25, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Hantec Markets sees Revenue grow 24% in 2015, client assets top £10 million

Hantec Markets, the London-based FCA regulated forex and CFD broker, has reported its financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2015, showing significant improvement in the business. Hantec Markets is a joint venture between Hong Kong based multinational finance house Hantec Group, and management led by Bashir Nurmohamed (CEO, ex ODL) and Hayel Abu-Hamdan…

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November 25, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Saxo Bank presents partnership with JSC Galt & Taggart

A follow-up to LeapRate's earlier report about the partnership between multi-asset trading and investment specialist Saxo Bank and Georgian investment firm JSC Galt & Taggart... The new partnership is officially announced by Saxo today. The collaboration will be celebrated at an event in Tbilisi today, November 25th, with Saxo Bank’s co-founder and co-CEO Lars Seier Christensen…

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November 25, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

What is trading via FIX API, and what makes it so popular?

The following guest post is courtesy of Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional FX at Advanced Markets. [divide] FIX (Financial Information Exchange) API (application programming interface) is a highly scalable electronic communication protocol to facilitate the real-time exchange of information related to financial markets. It has become the de facto standard method of pre-trade, trade and…

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November 25, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Japanese broker Arena-FX relaxes margin requirements for NZD pairs

After revising its margin requirements for a set of currency pairs with the New Zealand dollar (NZD) earlier this month, Japanese Forex broker Arena-FX is again changing the trading conditions for these pairs – this time, in a favourable direction, as margin requirements are relaxed. As of November 30, 2015 (Monday), Arena-FX will be cutting the…

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November 25, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Non-exec director Charles Fairbairn buys 69,747 shares in Plus500

Forex and CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has just reported one more transaction in its shares. On Tuesday, November 24, 2015, Mr. Charles Fairbairn, a non-executive director of Plus500, purchased 69,747 ordinary shares of NIS 0.01 each in the broker at a price of 349.3 pence per share. In addition, his wife - Susan Fairbairn,…

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November 25, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Paysafe to move to London Stock Exchange's Main Market on Dec 23rd

Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS), formerly known as Optimal Payments, today confirmed its plans to list its ordinary shares on the premium segment of the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to have them admitted to trading on London Stock Exchange's Main Market. The company expects that its shares will be admitted to the…

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November 25, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

OANDA stops supporting Best Forex Trade of the Day in fxLabs

OANDA has announced that it is no longer supporting the Best Forex Trades of the Day in fxLabs as of November 24, 2015. The broker explained that it regularly evaluates capabilities of its lab tools to ensure that it is providing the utmost value to customers. After careful consideration, and due to low trader interest,…

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