Follows a very brief attempted "friendly" offer by FXCM, which was rebuffed by Gain Capital management. In a move which has shocked the FX world, FXCM has made an offer to acquire Gain Capital (Forex.com) for $5.35 per share, or a total of $210 million -- all payable in FXCM stock. That's the headline. But…
Read moreCySEC allows FX brokers to release client names and data to banks, to allow for release of client funds. LeapRate Exclusive... We reported (exclusively) last week that segregated client fund bank accounts held by Cyprus FX brokers at Laiki Bank and Bank of Cyprus would NOT be subject to the "haircut" (or more correctly, confiscation)…
Read moreCFTC charges Whileon Shay and 4X Solutions with using client funds to pay personal expenses, luxury resorts, expensive restaurants, exotic car rentals... The CFTC has charged New York based 4X Solutions, Inc. and its principal Whileon Chay with fraud claiming they were running a $4.8 million FX trading Ponzi scheme. The CFTC complaint alleges that Chay and…
Read more...although Thomson Reuters retakes the #1 Forex ECN title back from ICAP EBS. Continuing the mixed-results FX volumes trend for March we've seen so far at the CME Group and at ICAP EBS, Thomson Reuters and its FXall unit each reported ho-hum FX volumes results in March. Thomson Reuters was actually down 4% from February…
Read moreDukascopy's JForex platform becoming more popular for smaller no-dealing-desk brokers. It seems as though Dukascopy is fast becoming a Forex ECN unto itself. After recently announcing white label deals for its JForex platform in Australia (Forex FS) and Turkey (Integral Menkul Değerler), now comes word that Dukascopy has signed a similar deal with Japan's AFT FX,…
Read moreLawsuit brought by former TRI employee claims insider survey leaks. An interesting lawsuit brought against Thomson Reuters by former employee Mark Rosenblum claims that the bimonthly Thomson Reuters / University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers had a "tiered" release, giving certain "ultra-low-latency" subscribers to the survey a brief trading advantage, based on receiving the information earlier. Rosenblum's…
Read moreHas EBS now lost its lead in the Forex ECN business to rivals Thomson Reuters and FXall? ICAP's Forex ECN unit EBS reported March FX trading volumes at $120.4 billion (average daily volume for the month), down 19% from February and down 2% from last year March. After two strong months to start the year, things slowed down at EBS in March.…
Read moreJapan's retail Forex brokers are having a hard time duplicating January and February's great start to the year. Monex Group, a mid-size Japanese retail FX broker, announced that March volumes came in at ¥126,613 million per day (about $30 billion in monthly volume), down about 28% from February's $41 billion in monthly volume. Still, one of…
Read moreMarch FX volumes at CME come in at 1.072M contracts per day, up 0.5% from 1.067M in February. CME Group, which runs the world's largest derivatives marketplace, surpassed a near-record February with a (slightly) even better March. FX contract volumes (mainly Eurodollar futures contracts) traded at CME hit 1,072,000 per day in March, up 0.5%…
Read moreCentral Bank of Cyprus has agreed to not haircut segregated bank accounts over €100,000, where the ultimate beneficiaries are small individual investors. LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Cyprus' financial regulator CySEC is working on behalf of licensed Cyprus investment firms, which include many FX and Binary brokers, to prevent the dreaded "haircut" on bank accounts…
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