Total volumes for last year higher by 17% over 2012 Volume metrics during the last month of the year at KCG Hotspot have remained somewhat subdued when compared to November’s release, however that shouldn't be a big surprise considering the broad industry slowdown during the holiday month, especially when it comes to institutional volumes. Overall…
Read moreThe access to the resource is free and it can be used by brokers and clients to settle transaction disputes Californian forex technology company Integral Development has now officially launched its earlier unveiled product aiming to bring more transparency to the forex market. While we haven’t tried the service yet, it can be a very…
Read morePlatform features are fully available for Japanese retail investors with a downloadable version The Japanese subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc. has released a press release announcing the launch of its own TradeStation platform for Japanese retail investors. Up until now it was available only to their clients of US based TradeStation Securities and TradeStation Technologies…
Read moreInternal investigation is suspecting benchmark manipulation of Argentinian Peso rates Deutsche Bank is the latest amongst heavyweight players in the foreign exchange industry that is parting with a trader on suspicion that benchmark forex rates have been manipulated. Sources close to the German daily newspaper die Welt have reported that the currency trader worked in…
Read moreNew World Holdings destroyed business records and failed to diligently supervise employees Chicago based introducing broker New World Holdings (NWH) has been imposed a fine by the US Commodity Futures trading commission as it failed to keep proper records of its customers and neglected employee supervision. The monetary penalty amounts to $50,000 while the court…
Read moreWe need a payment systems revolution and Bitcoin is part of the solution, Paypal could be jumping on the bandwagon Forget about copycats that are trying to take away the crown of Bitcoin amongst digital currencies – forget about the satiric ambitions of Dogecoin (yes, really...) and the daring Coinye (formerly Coinye West...). If you…
Read moreReal-time technical analysis to assist customers to make more and better trading decisions It has been less than a month since leading forex technology provider Leverate has introduced its advanced charting functionality for their Sirix platform. Now we are getting another feature that might get the interest of many existing and new clients of the…
Read moreKVB shares (HKG:8077) are still trading below their July 2013 IPO price. Share price trades down, so.... let's give management more stock. LeapRate Exclusive.... Hong Kong based retail forex broker KVB Kunlun has made its first major grant of stock options to its senior employees since the KVB Kunlun IPO last summer. In total, KVB…
Read moreTurns out that FXall had an up month, and has clearly assumed the leadership of the Forex ECN sector Mistakes do not happen frequently but they happen to the best too. As it turns out volumes at the top FX liquidity provider owned by Thomson Reuters, FXall, have been misreported by the company. Average daily…
Read moreIG is eyeing the opening of a Switzerland office in 2014. UK spreadbetting leader IG Group (LON:IGG), which is in process of rebranding its businesses to just IG.com, has just reported its second consecutive quarterly decline in revenues. Fiscal 2014 Q2 revenue of £89.1 million came in at 5% below Q1, with Q1 having been 10%…
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