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

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?

September 21, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

IBFX is all about TradeStation now

The ubiquitous MetaTrader 4 platform has been sidelined by US retail FX giant IBFX following its offloading of MetaTrader client base to FXCM. The trading platform of choice for the future at IBFX is its proprietary TradeStation

September 19, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Another falls...CME Group announces record volume day in Eurodollar futures

CME Group announced a 13.9% volume jump in Eurodollar futures contracts for one day from the previously held record...

September 19, 2014 BY Mike Fox

First Derivatives announces its sponsorship of the Asian Gaelic Games for the third consecutive year

The Asian Games and the pre-cursor Asia Pacific Irish Business Forum affords First Derivatives a unique networking and recruitment opportunity to tap into the Irish diaspora in Asia, many of whom work within the capital markets industry.

September 19, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Geopolitics forces Forex Club to set limits on Russian Ruble trading

In taking the decision to set limits on the Russian currency, Forex Club cites changes in the price of the Russian Ruble stemming from the conflict in Eastern Ukraine as the determining factor

September 19, 2014 BY Mike Fox

SGX boosts offering with 3 new FX contracts

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) is adding new Asian foreign exchange futures contracts on the Chinese yuan, Japanese yen and Thai baht, to further augment its successful suite of forex offerings. The new Asian FX contracts will be available for trading from Oct 20th. The expanded suite is in line with G20 recommendation to encourage trading…