October 20, 2014 BY Mike Fox

LeapRate Forex Weekly Look Back – Week of October 13th

In case you didn't catch them, here were some interesting happenings in the FX world from last week - LeapRate Look Back: Week of October 13th Pepperstone forced by ASIC to exit the Japanese Forex market | https://www.leaprate.com/ABTyh French FX and CFD traders lost more than EUR 161m during 2009-2013 | https://www.leaprate.com/EwuiK Enter the high-rollers!…

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October 19, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Plus500 formally receives CySEC CIF license

Since becoming a publicly listed entity, Plus500 has increased its fortunes considerably, whilst maintaining efficient operations. This week, the firm's CySec license has come into effect, allowing the company to act as a market maker from its newly established Cyprus office

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October 17, 2014 BY Mike Fox

GAIN Capital CMO Samantha Roady sells another 8,000 GCAP shares

In a new SEC filing yesterday Gain Capital (NYSE:GCAP) has indicated that its CMO Samantha Roady, who technically holds the title of Chief Commercial Officer, sold 8,000 shares at a price of $7.00, pocketing approximately $56,000. Gain Capital shares spiked this week, gaining over 12% on Tuesday alone after an upgrade and remain up double…

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October 17, 2014 BY Mike Fox

The first local MetaTrader 5 offering in Thailand launched

The MetaTrader 5 trading platform continues its expansion in the fast growing markets. In mid-October, one of the Thailand brokers Apple Wealth officially launched the terminal in demo mode on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). By December 2014, Thai traders using MetaTrader 5 will have a real opportunity to trade stocks and futures on…

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