April 02, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

Sanko Menkul Degerler Partners with Gold-i for Reliability and Service

Sanko Menkul Degerler A.S, one of Turkey’s largest brokerages, selects Gold-i Gate Bridge to connect MT4 to liquidity providers Sanko Menkul Degerler A.S, one of Turkey’s largest brokerages, has selected the super low latency Gold-i Gate Bridge to connect MetaTrader4 to the market’s primary liquidity providers. The partnership between Sanko and Gold-i was arranged by…

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April 02, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

Plus500 reports record March-quarter revenues - up 207%

Increase of 207% in revenues to $60.7m in Q1 2014 up from Q1 2013 at $19.7M Plus500’s March-quarter revenues were up 207% to $60.7M, while its number of new customers gained 63% to 20,124. Its number of active customers increased 48% to 50,438. March-quarter revenues in 2013 came in at $19.7M, and in 2013 they…

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April 02, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

IronFX promotes Emilio Caleb Lobo to Manage Spanish Office

International experience in leadership positions in FX firms bears fruit as IronFX appoints former COO of NFA regulated firm to lead Spanish operations Few retail FX companies have demonstrated such rapid growth across various regions as IronFX, which has expanded from its original Cypriot roots to cover all continents, with regulatory oversight in the UK,…

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April 02, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Changes at the top: Votes take place this month as CFTC is set to shuffle senior commissioners

Senate Agriculture Committee to meet on April 6 to cast votes on three senior level regulatory officials within one of the world's most well-renowned authorities Among the very upper echelons of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), not only are there some of the world's most highly respected and knowledgeable financial markets regulators, but…

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April 01, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

Moscow Exchange: Turnover increases 50% YoY in March

FX market turnover in February was RUB 23.0 trln (more than double March 2013's RUB 10.1 trln) FX market turnover on the Moscow Exchange in March was RUB 23.0 trln (more than double March 2013"s RUB 10.1 trln), including spot trades of RUB 7.3 trln (32% of the total) and swap trades of RUB 15.7 trln (68%). The FX market's average daily turnover was…

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April 01, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

Saxo Bank launches XAUCNH FX spot cross

The firm also improves spreads on all existing spot CNH crosses Saxo Bank, the largest European-based Forex trading firm (and a member of LeapRate's Approved List of Forex firms) has today added a new FX spot cross to the platforms. The bank is now trading spot gold against Chinese offshore renminbi (XAUCNH). Elizabeth Missfeld who works…

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April 01, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

New Watch EBS mobile forex app – a NetDania white label

Update: NetDania has announced delivery to EBS, of its mobile application in a white labelled version A follow up to our article yesterday on EBS’s new mobile forex app as we have learned the new 'Watch EBS' mobile app comes from financial mobile app vendor NetDania. It is of course a big deal for a…

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