Sochi Olympics + Muted Volatility = A Slow But Steady February in FX Trading. After beginning 2014 with a bang in January, with retail FX trading volumes posting their second best ever result at $322 billion ADV, the industry saw something of a slowdown in February, although all in all it was still a decent…
Read moreLast year, the CFTC approved rules to better protect customers of futures brokers In a stiff ruling and making an example of some sloppiness at the bank, the CFTC penalized Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. The unit, a registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) of the bank was fined for violating CFTC rules governing secured funds…
Read moreUS CFTC to collaborate with Canadian provincial regulators in order to enhance supervision of cross-border regulated entities The United States is regarded among the vast majority of electronic trading companies from retail FX brokers to the long-established and steadfast institutional trading desks of Chicago as being the most stringent and well-organised jurisdiction when it comes…
Read moreCySEC CIF license granted to StockPair parent Nextrade Worldwide Ltd. Nextrade Worldwide Ltd. DBA StockPair, has been approved as a regulated Cypriot Investment Firm (CIF). They were officially added to list of regulated firms as of March 21, 2014 under license number 229/14. This is a step forward for the StockPair brand who maintains a…
Read moreBeta website for nine different binary options, including gold, silver and crude oil, plus six foreign exchange pairs Bitcoin ONLY! That is the terms of service of new binary option trading platform UpDown. A few online gaming and sportsbooks accepting Bitcoin have popped up since the digital currency went into the mainstream consciousness. However, the…
Read moreSoftware company Deltix joins forces with Citi to provide integrated algo-trading solution for research and automated execution of FX Despite the European Parliament's openly adverse view toward algorithmic and high frequency trading (HFT) among institutions across the continent, North America's technology firms and fiscal authorities show no sign of halting their increasing will to refine…
Read moreJapan's retail FX firms enjoyed record volumes last year, with MONEX predicting dividends to reflect stellar performance MONEX Group has today announced its forecast for the payment of dividends for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014. Bearing in mind the remarkable performance achieved by MONEX along with its contemporaries and compatriots last year, it…
Read moreJapanese FX conglomerate MONEX Inc creates Service Operations Department and appoints Tomoyuki Ishibashi to lead position Japanese FX giant MONEX Group has today announced that its subsidiary MONEX Inc has made two changes within its senior personnel, as well as establishing a new division within the firm. For the purpose of maintenance and management of…
Read moreThe imminent MENA FX conference in Dubai has been postponed, with organizers citing events in Russia and Ukraine as the reason despite distance. LeapRate gains industry opinion Just how much influence on an event organized in one region, can the change in political stability of another region have? Whereas it may be most certainly fair…
Read moreSystem provides alerts about critical behavior of traders to enable broker’s retention agents to target and engage Retention automation and marketing software is a very lucrative niche for companies that can develop a system that provides deep insight and results. CPattern is one of those companies, and has launched a new retention alerts tool for…
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