October 28, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

AxiTrader statement on MT4 and website outages - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... Further to our earlier exclusive coverage on the website outage at ASIC-regulated forex broker AxiTrader, the company has provided LeapRate with a formal statement on the situation. The company also indicated that in a separate, unrelated outage its Retail MT4 offering had some connectivity issues for a number of clients who access AxiTrader's…

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October 28, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

AxiTrader sees website go down for several hours Tuesday caused by Microsoft Azure problems - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... Continuing our exclusive coverage of a series of (seemingly unconnected) outages and hacks hitting the Forex trading world of late, LeapRate has learned that leading Australian retail forex broker AxiTrader experienced an outage lasting several hours on Tuesday October 27. AxiTrader clients were apparently unable to log into their accounts during the latter…

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October 27, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

SGX suffers derivatives trading interruption

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX:S68) has earlier today alerted its members and traders of problems plaguing the work of the derivatives market. Trading on SGX's derivatives market was interrupted for more than hour. The trading was halted at 22:00h (local time, GMT+8:00) and resumed later at 23:15h. The problems did not affect the closing time of…

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October 27, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Dukascopy adds Pair binary options to offering

Swiss FX marketplace Dukascopy today announced it is increasing the variety of binary options available to its clients. The broker is introducing Pair binary options. These options enable traders to trade on the performance of an individual stock against the equity index it is part of. As long as a trader considers that a stock…

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October 27, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

CLS, TriOptima join efforts to launch triReduce CLS Forward FX Compression Service

CLS Group (CLS), a provider of risk mitigation and operational services for the global foreign exchange market infrastructure, and TriOptima, a provider of OTC derivatives post-trade and risk reduction services, announce today the launch of the triReduce CLS Forward FX Compression Service completing the first successful compression cycle for FX forwards and swaps transactions. The…

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October 27, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Former GAIN Capital COO Chris Calhoun becomes CEO of Scivantage

Scivantage, a Global FinTech 100 provider of wealth management and cost basis solutions, today announced the appointment of Chris Calhoun, former Chief Operating Officer of Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr Calhoun, who has been on the Board of Directors at Scivantage since 2010, has more twenty years of experience…

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October 27, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Interactive Brokers updates mobileTWS app for iOS gadgets

US online trading services provider Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) has spent some time upgrading and enhancing its multi-asset trading platform Trader Workstation (TWS). And earlier this month the company released a new version (8.8) of its mobileTWS for iOS-powered gadgets, implementing several of the improvements from the desktop TWS in the mobile trading app.…

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October 27, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

CME hires LSE's Joanne Shannon to run its Europe sales strategy

International derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announced the appointment of Joanne Shannon as Executive Director and Head of Commercial Development for CME Europe, the London-based derivatives exchange. In her new role, Ms Shannon will be responsible for developing and executing the sales strategy for CME Europe and for helping to expand the infrastructure…

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October 27, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Belize's watchdog warns Panteon-Finance is no longer licensed

Several months after Panteon-Finance made it to the “Black List” of Russia's Forex organization CRFIN, Belize's financial markets regulator also voiced its concerns over the company. In a warning dated October 26, 2015, Belize's International Financial Services Commission (IFSC) says that Panteon-Finance Ltd is no longer licensed by the regulator for trading in securities or to…

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