ICM Capital Limited, headquartered in London authorized and regulated under the FCA-UK, has quickly grown in recent years announced their exclusive partnership with Nottingham Forest FC, which will run until the end of the current season. The sponsorship will include branding on the back of the shirts and extensive branding in the stadium, which started…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... Continuing our exclusive coverage of the goings-on behind the scenes at the IPO of binary options platform provider TechFinancials, LeapRate has learned that the offering was slightly increased in size from our earlier reported $5.25 million to just over $5.4 million, with directors and current holders putting in more money at the IPO price. The…
Read moreShaun Overton, the founder of OneStepRemoved, a Dallas based firm which offers programming services for traders developing custom applications believes that managed accounts and EAs have a shaky reputation in the FX industry among investors. LeapRate's Forex Yellow Pages had the chance to catch-up over the weekend with Shaun about his success in marketing QB Pro, one of the…
Read moreTwo London newspapers, business news oriented CityAM and the London Evening Standard, have named retail forex broker CWM FX as being the mystery financial institution associated with a police raid last week at Heron Tower in London's financial district. CityAM first reported the incident last Tuesday, reporting that an unnamed financial services firm based in the…
Read moreYesterday, LeapRate posed the question as to what is worse; a single black swan event, or a period of low volumes? Today, Saxo Bank considers reversing its decision to raise margin requirements on CHF trades after a 37.5% drop in trading activity in February as the industry begins to consider the dichotomy between single events that cause extreme volatility and prolonged periods of low volumes
Read moreChristopher Fix will be based in Singapore and will be responsible for leading CME Group's efforts to develop benchmark products and services to meet the needs of its customer base in the region. In addition to his new role, Mr. Fix has been appointed to the Board of Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) and as Chairman of DME Asia Pte Ltd
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Read moreAs a result of the postponement of the release of a new version of SPECTRA, all quarterly options and USD/RUB and EUR/RUB futures contracts with the expiry date in March 2015, will be exercised according to the standard procedure, i.e. without any changes announced in February
Read moreWhat is really worse? Low trading volumes, or a single black swan event? Andrew Saks-McLeod takes a look at the dichotomy between two scenarios
Read morePhillip Boakes, who defrauded investors of more than £3.5 million, was today sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to 10 years in jail. Boakes, who ran CurrencyTrader Ltd, a company engaged in Forex spread betting, lured investments using false instruments and taking deposits without having the proper authorization. In running a typical Ponzi scheme, Boakes funded…
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