BCS Financial Group selects Horizon Software for market-making and distributing Russian derivatives LeapRate

September 22, 2014 BY Mike Fox

BCS Financial Group selects Horizon Software for market-making and distributing Russian derivatives

BCS Financial Group, the largest trader in Russia for Equities, FX and Derivatives, has selected Horizon Software to launch its derivatives market-making and distribution activities. Horizon will provide Delta One and Option Trader, its market-making platform, which includes native exchange connectivity to numerous exchanges throughout Europe. Horizon’s flexible APIs will allow the market-making platform to…

September 22, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Swissquote Daily Technical Report: GBP/USD - Post-Scotland referendum bounce fades

In Swissquote’s Monday short term technical trading report, the research team outlines the major technical levels of popular currency instruments with forecasts, below is the outline for GPB/USD and USD/JPY. To view and download the entire report, click here (PDF). GBP/USD: Post-Scotland referendum bounce fades GBP/USD recovery above the 1.6500 handle has faltered. Failure to…

September 22, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

LeapRate Daily FX Industry Catch Up: Presented by Dukascopy TV

September 22, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Leverate Joins the Ranks of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50

Expansions into new territories with three offices across the world having been opened, and concentration on social trading technology has served Leverate well in its recent endeavors toward research and development

September 22, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

The b-book is alive and well, even as volatility increases

As the policy within many trading desks and institutional companies with regard to trade internalization remains unchanged, increasing volatility and regulatory attention may result in restructuring of execution policy industry wide

September 22, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

Gain Capital CMO Samantha Roady pockets $111K from exercise of options and share sale

The perks of working for a public company... In an SEC filing Gain Capital (NYSE:GCAP) has indicated that its CMO Samantha Roady, who technically holds the title of Chief Commercial Officer, recently exercised some deep in-the-money options, and immediately sold the shares she received. In total, between September 10 and 11 Roady exercised options to…

September 22, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

FCA Director of Markets David Lawson speaks out as European trading hangs in the balance

At last week's MiFID II conference in London, David Lawton outlined many factors that are the focus of the new regulation and how electronic trading firms will be affected, including areas which are still yet to be covered

September 22, 2014 BY Mike Fox

LeapRate Forex Weekly Look Back - Week of September 15th

LeapRate Forex Weekly Look Back - Week of September 15th Israel introduces regulation of electronic trading platforms | https://www.leaprate.com/UyYwF SafeCharge granted European e-money institution license | https://www.leaprate.com/wqpB1 Exclusive Interview: SignalPush taking on the binary industry one trade at a time | https://www.leaprate.com/vHmD7 FXCM hints at further acquisitions in the retail FX space | https://www.leaprate.com/s9ru6 Japanese…

September 21, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

DealHub Launches Modular eFX Platform – DealHub RefleX

As the global connectivity race between venues evolves, attaining extremely low latency is only one consideration. DealHub's perspective is to offer sophisticated pricing and execution tools, combined with an entirely new trading platform

September 21, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Saxo Bank considers access to Egyptian Exchange to its list of global markets by end of 2015

Middle East markets represent 15% of total stock dealings that take place through Saxo Bank, according to Saxo Bank Middle East Development Manager, can stable access to the Egyptian market increase share?