Exclusive: Edgewater Markets expands with new personnel in Singapore
August 02, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exclusive: Edgewater Markets expands with new personnel in Singapore

Leaprate Exclusive... Edgewater Markets, the NFA-registered non-bank FX liquidity provider, has just informed LeapRate that it has welcomed aboard Rick Lloyd as Director of eFX Sales out of its Singapore office. Rick Lloyd brings a wealth of experience in the Foreign Exchange markets space spanning over 30 years of industry expertise working for corporate and…

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August 01, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

UK FCA clarifies its position on digital assets

The call for regulatory overview on cryptocurrencies is long due. And not only cryptocurrencies, but the so called "digital assets". Countries around the world classify digital coins in many different ways. Now, the UK FCA has clarified its position on how to regulate digital assets. The FCA has also given its stance on which tokens…

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August 01, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

TFX-Click 365 volume up 23% MoM in July

Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has released its trading volumes report for the month of July 2019. You can see the highlights below: Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 75,426 ( - 17.9% MoM / - 32.0% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 3,428. 項目 July   2019…

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August 01, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXCM Group reports June 2019 execution data

Retail forex broker FXCM (NYSE:FXCM) released its execution data for June 2019. The highlights can be seen below. June 2019 all instruments highlights include: 66.6% of orders executed at price 22.0% of orders executed with positive slippage 11.3% of orders executed with negative slippage Average execution speed 33 milliseconds Highlighted Instruments June 2019: More recent…

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ESMA ceases renewal of product intervention CFDs measures
August 01, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA will not renew the temporary restriction on the marketing, distribution or sale of CFDs

The EU securities markets’ regulator ESMA has announced earlier today that it will not renew the temporary restriction on the marketing, distribution or sale of contracts for differences (CFDs) to retail clients in the European Union (EU). LeapRate reminds that last year ESMA has taken product intervention measures relating to CFDs, imposing a temporary restriction…

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