December 02, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Oanda introduces its first Currensee upgrade

The Oanda Trade Leaders Program provides copy trading functionality within existing accounts It is only a couple of months since Oanda acquired social trading service Currensee and the first results from the takeover are starting to appear. Over the weekend the Canadian forex brokerage Oanda Corporation introduced its new platform feature called OANDA Trade Leaders…

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December 02, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Scottish independence – Pound vs. Euro decision

Scotland government white paper (purposely) leaves out any mention of a Scottish currency Scotland's government, led by Alex Salmond’s Scottish National Party, tabled its ‘White Paper’ on Scottish independence earlier this week, and it was as notable for what was NOT in it as for what was. One of the main omissions was talk of…

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December 02, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

ForexTime accepting deposits in CNY via China UnionPay

Retail forex brokers making it easier for China clients to deposit and trade Cyprus based retail forex broker ForexTime has announced that it is starting to accept card transactions denominated in CNY through China UnionPay (CUP). This is the only bank card organization which is based in China operating under the supervision of the People's…

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November 29, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Sucden Financial expands in Hong Kong with upgraded SFC license

A leveraged foreign exchange products license aiming to establish an Asian foothold The Hong Kong subsidiary of UK Based Sucden Financial Limited has been granted a license for providing leveraged foreign exchange products by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong. Clients of Sucden Financial (HK) will be granted access to trade FX…

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November 28, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

X Open Hub drops the corporate ‘X Financial Solutions’ moniker

X Open Hub’s rebranding focuses on its open environment The company behind the open online FX & CFD trading environment X Open Hub, X Financial Solutions has publicized today that as part of its ongoing effort to strengthen its brand recognition and in order to underline the openness of its product it is changing its…

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November 28, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

UK looks at taxing spreadbetting

Leading religious and social figures in the UK push to remove the tax exempt status of spreadbetting After several years of tax exemption the UK Treasury seems to be aiming at that heaven. Lawmakers will look into spread betting after the taxing question was raised by the Archbishop of Canterbury and shadow treasury spokesman Lord…

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November 28, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Cyprus warns against Sycamore Options – a second time?

It looks like CySEC’s earlier warning against TraderXP was for the same company The Cypriot regulatory authority CySEC has issued another warning against dealing with a binary options broker called Sycamore Options. Just as in previous cases there was no detailed information in the announcement on CySEC’s website as to whether or not the company…

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November 27, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Bitcoin prices cross the $1000 milestone on Mt Gox

One of the side effects of skyrocketing Bitcoin prices is increasing theft As the end of the month nears Bitcoin is trading near all-time highs of $1000 on the Mt Gox exchange having hit a bit earlier $1073. Discrepancies between the different exchanges are back in place with BitStamp quoting the crypto-currency at $950 with…

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November 27, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

ICAP promotes Ken Pigaga to COO as regulatory issues come to the fore

Pigaga led the team responsible for developing ICAP’s SEF Interdealer broker ICAP has announced yesterday that its appointing Ken Pigaga as Global Chief Operating Officer and he will be reporting directly to Michael Spencer, the Group's CEO. He will be moving to London from New York where he was responsible for the development of ICAP's SEF…

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November 27, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Gain Capital convertible note offering raised to $80 million

Underwriters led by Jefferies exercise 'greenshoe' option Retail forex broker GAIN Capital (NYSE:GCAP) has reported yesterday that it after the increase of its convertible note offering last week, the initial purchasers have exercised their option to purchase additional $10 million of notes. With. Is action the total amount of notes sold aggregates $80 million, whilst  the…

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