IG Group reported results this morning for Q4-2011 (the company has a May 31 fiscal year end), and of course for its full year ended May 31/2011. Saw 2% overall revenue growth in Q4, steady if unspectacular. Home base in the UK actually saw a small revenue decline in Q4, £44 million this year versus £45…

A couple of recent and similar moves by two US regulators, the FDIC (or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) and the OCC (or Office of the Comptroller of the Currency), went largely unnoticed in the Forex industry, and in our view were somewhat misinterpreted by those who did notice. However, these moves spoke volumes to us…

FXCM’s share price soared on Friday by 11% following the release of information (as reported in Business Insider) that several large and influential hedge fund investors had accumulated significant positions in FXCM stock. The largest reported position was an approximate one million share holding in FXCM by Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group, among the largest…

FXCM and Gain Capital (Forex.com) each announced their Q1 results yesterday. Wall Street was clearly unimpressed with both firms, as the shares of both traded down sharply – FXCM by 17%(!!!) and Gain by 6%. (FXCM is now down 29% from its December IPO price, Gain is off 30% – for more details on publicly…

Initial volume numbers which we have seen so far for early-reporting Forex firms such as Swissquote Bank, FXCM and IG Group (each members of LeapRate’s Approved List of online Forex firms) seem to point to a nice increase in Forex trading volumes during Q1-2011, following a somewhat lackluster second half of 2010 – see summary…