KCG's Forex ECN unit KCG Hotspot has another good month, FX trading volumes up 6% over February and 18% over last year. The first quarter has ended with a bang for the world's leading Forex ECNs. After seeing ICAP's EBS and Thomson Reuters' FXall show nice rises over February levels including an all-time high at…
Read moreBinary firm chooses to move ahead unregulated, how will traders react? In an official announcement from CySEC binary option brand Trading247 has decided to opt out of any sort of regulation. The license now in question was granted to Trading247.com’s parent Magline Investments Ltd. Some binary options brokers are apparently coming to the decision that…
Read moreFollowing the recent implementation of new rulings by the New Zealand FMA, the gateway to the Asia Pacific region has widened further. Jake Amar, CEO and Co-founder of Mercer FX talks best execution, investment in bespoke solutions, client loyalty and the future of retail FX brokers as bona fide financial institutions The long and often…
Read moreAmerica's mandatory exchange-traded binary options business made substantial progress in the inaugural months of 2014 as NADEX releases quarterly results The North American Derivatives Exchange (NADEX) announced late last week that its 2014 first quarter (Q1 2014) exchange volume of binary options and spread contracts traded increased 49.8% quarter-over-quarter from the same period in 2013.…
Read moreUncertainty has followed last year's soaring values and unprecedented demand in the aftermath of MtGox demise, with BTC values falling below $400 for the first time since last November. Would reviving MtGox be a very risky business? It is common practice in most industry sectors for large, stable companies which operate within a particular business segment…
Read moreOn a day equity markets were down big, CFD broker Plus500 sets another all-time high. FCA regulated CFD broker Plus500 (LON:PLUS) continues to be a darling of the London Stock Exchange. Plus500 shares traded up 3.6% on Thursday, briefly crossing the £7.00 mark for the first time before settling to close at £6.98. At its current share…
Read moreThe broker will offer DMA to IEX on its award-winning online trading platform, SaxoTrader Saxo Bank is the first retail broker in Europe to offer access to IEX, an alternative trading system (ATS) which focuses on investor protection and performance by resisting high frequency trading. Access to IEX on Saxo Bank's platform went live on…
Read moreCould KCG be taking the long term view by hanging onto its ECN despite another year in the red? US electronic trading conglomerate KCG today released its 2013 annual report, which shareholders will likely find to be pleasant reading and a testimony to the company's remarkable steps toward recovery from its catastrophic algorithmic trading error…
Read moreVolume is looking quite healthy for GAIN Capital... Gain Capital has issued their March monthly metrics today in a press release with jumps in m/m and y/y data, you can view the numbers below: Retail metrics Retail OTC trading volume of $184.6 billion, an increase of 9.0% from February 2014 and an increase of 31.1%…
Read moreThe approval of the Polish clearing house triggers the authorization of currency products in regulated markets and repo products, neither of which has been approved previously KDPW_CCP, in a press release states that it has met all requirements for such institutions under EU Regulation EMIR. EMIR requires companies to comply with the obligation of reporting…
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