IG Group’s US based binary broker Nadex expanding it’s reach to accept global clients LeapRate

February 28, 2015 BY Mike Fox

IG Group's US based binary broker Nadex expanding it's reach to accept global clients

Nadex, the Chicago-based derivatives exchange designed for the retail trader and regulated by the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) is now available for global clientele. Part of IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), Nadex is the only United States based regulated trading venue that specifically covers Forex, commodities and stock indices markets with Nadex's derivative binary and spread contracts.…

February 28, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Yahoo's Gulliver FX to launch Gold, Silver and Oil products

Gulliver FX Ltd, a UK-based subsidiary of Yahoo Japan Corporation (TYO:4689), has just announced it would beef up the menu of trading instruments it offers to its clients. The company said it would soon add Gold, Silver and Oil products to the lineup, with some tests being currently conducted. For that matter, the broker notes…

February 27, 2015 BY Mike Fox

MGT Capital Investments to merge with Bitcoin SEF and index firm Tera Group

Transaction to create the first publicly traded U.S. Bitcoin derivatives exchange

February 27, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

BGC Partners, GFI Group say tender offer completed successfully

There is a positive development on the news LeapRate reported a week ago about BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:BGCP), a global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, and GFI Group Inc. (NYSE:GFIG) agreeing on a tender offer of $6.10 per share. The companies announced today that the tender offer had been completed successfully.…

February 27, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

MQL5.community celebrates 500,000 users

MetaQuotes Software Corp., the software developer that gave the Forex world the popular platforms MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5, today announced that the number of registered users of the MQL.5 community had crossed the mark of 500,000. In the middle of this month, the number of traders that have an account on MQL5.com, surpassed half…

February 27, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Guest Editorial: How the Greek Crisis Has Affected the Euro, January 22 – February 23, 2015

FXTM Chief Market Analyst Jameel Ahmad explains how the Greek economic crisis has affected the value of the Euro in a very short space of time, analyzing specific events

February 27, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Investors betting on a better offer for KVB Kunlun

KVB shares restart trading Friday on the HKEx at a price more than double CITIC's existing HK$0.65 per share offer.

February 27, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Japanese OTC FX trading volume rockets 132% in final quarter of 2014

Japan's domestic market FX industry has gone from strength to strength during the last quarter of 2014, with 1.76 quadrillion yen in volume having been traded in OTC form, more than double that of the previous quarter

February 26, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

KPMG making Claims Portal live for test run with 500 Alpari UK clients - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Alpari UK Special Administrator KPMG is about to go live with the Claims Portal, in an initial beta test run for 500 clients. KPMG will select (randomly, we believe) approximately 500 Alpari UK clients, all with cash-only balances, to test the Claims Portal. Those 500 clients (who do not…

February 26, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Rollings Oliver appointed Special Administrators of Boston Prime by order of the High Court

Joint Special Administrators Michael David Rollings and Steven Butt of Rollings Oliver are licensed to act as Insolvency Practitioners in the UK by the Insolvency Practitioners Association.