March 01, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Dukascopy enters Turkey, signs white label deal with Turkey's largest broker

Dukascopy signs up Turkey's largest broker, Integral Menkul Değerler, as a White Label client. Turkey continues to be one of the hottest FX markets out there. Today comes word that Switzerland's Dukascopy has signed Turkey's İntegral Menkul Değerler, the largest broker in Turkey, as a white label client. İntegral Menkul will be launching an online FX business in…

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March 01, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

MarketSpreads to rebrand as Shelbourne Markets

MarketSpreads to expand its offerings for traders, investors, and corporates. LeapRate has learned that Ireland-based financial spreadbetting broker MarketSpreads will be rebranding, effective already next week, under its new name Shelbourne Markets. The strategy behind the name change seems quite obvious -- the company will be expanding from spreadbetting to other areas of financial trading,…

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March 01, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

PFSOFT releases mobile trading applications

Another broker launches using PFSOFT software, SkyonFX. A lot of the software development we're seeing lately in the FX trading world has been centered on two, somewhat connected themes -- apps and mobile. Today comes word that trading platform provider PFSOFT has launched its mobile suite -- free mobile applications for iOS and Android devices, available…

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February 27, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Saxo Bank opens Uruguay office

Follows the acquisition last year by Saxo Bank of its Latin American white label partner. Those who follow our blog will know that, as we reported last October, Saxo Bank acquired its Montevideo, Uruguay-based white label partner NVN Securities. So it should come as no surprise that Saxo Bank has now formally opened its office in Montevideo,…

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February 27, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

DCM Capital 'auction' is a flop, top 'bid' £120,000

DCM did generate a lot of free press for itself. But was it worth it? Would you give money to these guys??? As we're proving here just by writing this, the innovative team at new FX and spreadbetting firm DCM Capital in the UK did succeed in getting for itself a healthy amount of free…

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February 26, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

xFSOL introduces the X3 Open Trading Hub for FX brokers

Allows FX brokers to differentiate, and find new revenue streams via social and apps. FX software and platform provider X Financial Solutions (xFSOL) has announced the launch of its X3 Open Trading Hub -- a trading environment which comes pre-bundled with xSocial, xStore and mobile and tablet trading applications. Using X3, brokers can create their own…

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February 26, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

MT5 gets long-awaited one-click trading

MetaQuotes continues to quietly lead traders to MT5 from MT4. As first reported by FX software expert firm CMAP, MetaQuotes Software -- maker of the popular MT4 and MT5 MetaTrader trading platform -- has introduced one-click trading functionality to charts in build 770 of the MetaTrader 5 client terminal. According to CMAP, this long-awaited functionality has…

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February 21, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Saxo Bank rebrands Forextrading.com as SaxoMT4.com

MT4 trading still separate from the "main" Saxo Bank, but this time using the Saxo Bank brand. Saxo Bank has announced a relaunch of its MT4 business, this time under the SaxoMT4 brand. Visitors to the old Forextrading.com website are now redirected to SaxoMT4.com (see screenshot below). Those who want to trade at Saxo Bank using…

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February 21, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Hotspot FX management to be replaced by Getco COO

Darren Mast, Getco COO, named Interim Head of Currencies at the merged company. In what seems like a clear sign that the merged Knight Capital and Getco company will look to sell its Forex ECN division Hotspot FX, Knight Capital announced today that post-merger, the Currencies division (namely, Hotspot FX) will be run an interim…

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