July 17, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

SpotOption opens Tokyo office in advance of Japan binary options market reopening

SpotOption also introduces Ladder Trading feature to its binary platform. Leading binary options platform provider SpotOption has announced that it has opened an office in Tokyo, in anticipation of Japan's JFSA and FFAJ (the Financial Futures Association of Japan) reopening Japan's binary market. As we reported back in November, Japanese authorities quietly instructed brokers to stop…

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July 17, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

CySEC confirms binary options license to ZoneOptions

ZoneOptions becomes the third regulated binary options broker in Cyprus. As a follow-up to our recent article, in which we exclusively reported that CySEC had approved a third binary options broker by issuing a CIF license to Rodeler Limited, parent of ZoneOptions, comes word that CySEC has indeed added ZoneOptions to its list of regulated…

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July 16, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Gain Capital (Forex.com) volumes down 4% in June

Gain Capital sees similar slowdown in both its retail and institutional businesses. Forex broker Gain Capital saw a slight slowdown in its clients' forex trading volumes during June, with retail volumes coming in at $155 billion and institutional volumes at $367 billion. Both figures were down 4% from Gain Capital's record May figures. To see…

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July 16, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

EBS launches lower cost Internet access version of EBS Spot Ai

EBS Internet Ai allows customers affordable access to the EBS forex market, without circuit fees or data center costs. Forex ECN EBS, a unit of futures broker ICAP, is introducing a lower cost version of its EBS Spot Ai, with EBS Ai protocols now available over the internet via EBS Internet Ai. The new EBS Internet…

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July 16, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Hotspot FX reports all time best forex volumes in June

Hotspot FX reports its first volume metrics as a newly private company, and they are impressive. Although it may not remain a private company (or rather, part of a private company) for long, Forex ECN Hotspot FX seems to be doing just fine outside the limelight of the public markets. Now owned by Getco, Knight…

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July 15, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

FXCM June volumes hold steady at $580 billion

Another record month for Retail forex volumes at FXCM. The good news from leading forex industry brokers just keep on coming.... Leading retail forex firm FXCM, the world's largest online global FX broker (and a member of LeapRate's Approved List of regulated FX brokerage firms), announced that June trading activity came in a total of…

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July 15, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

FXCM partners with CITIC Newedge Futures to penetrate China

China Forex market continues to be a focus for the world's leading Forex brokers. Breaking news.... Forex industry leader FXCM has announced a new partnership with CITIC Newegde Futures, a key player in the China Futures market, to to open a new gateway for FXCM's forex platform in China. The agreement includes the formation of an investor-oriented educational…

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July 15, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

ZoneOptions becomes the third CySEC regulated binary options broker

ZoneOptions joins Banc de Binary and OptionWeb as licensed binary options brokers. LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Binary Options broker ZoneOptions' parent company Rodeler Limited has received its CySEC CIF license, making ZoneOptions just the third binary broker to be formally regulated in Cyprus. The announcement should be made by CySEC in the coming…

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July 15, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

CLS has best ever month settling Forex trades in June

At $5.58 trillion per day in June, CLS volumes were up 15% over May. CLS, which operates the largest multicurrency cash settlement system, announced that in June it cleared $5.58 billion per day of matched forex instructions -- its best ever month and only the fifth time ever that volumes topped $5 trillion. CLS's figures indicate…

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