Today’s the day! View from Britain’s FX senior executives on the day of the most unpredictable general election in 30 years LeapRate

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May 07, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Today's the day! View from Britain's FX senior executives on the day of the most unpredictable general election in 30 years

"Ed Miliband is one of the most left leaders of a Labour party we have seen in a long time. All he will do is spend spend spend. Labour would be bad for business, and hence bad for the City, says ISPrime's Raj Sitlani, whilst Charles-Henri Sabet of LCG looks closely at the geo-economic effect of a win by either party

May 07, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Saxo Bank Head of Platforms Christian Hammer: SaxoTraderGo is first step towards a new disruptive platform offering

LeapRate discusses Saxo Bank’s revolutionary “SaxoTraderGO” and “OpenAPI” with the firm’s Vice President and Head of Platforms Christian Hammer on full customization, empowering clients and white label partners to develop their own platform functionalities, and how device neutrality opens up a whole new world for banks and developers alike

May 07, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

PFSOFT courts the British trader; adds spread betting to its ProTrader platform

PFSOFT has announced the extending of its Protrader trading platform’s functionality with a new set of features. The new update enables Spread Betting in addition to Forex, CFDs, Stocks, Options and Futures trading. These allows PFSOFT to fit Protrader functionality to the local specificity of the UK financial market. Protrader is the complex trading solution…

May 07, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

EXNESS introduces round-the-clock client support in Thai and Vietnamese

In response to demand from its increasingly global client base, EXNESS has added Thai and Vietnamese language support to its service

May 07, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

FC Stone sees Revenues up 14% in Q2

Whilst exchange-traded volume at INTL FCStone increased slightly over the previous quarter, OTC trading volume increased substantially to 448,800 contracts, a remarkable 54.6% increase compared with the previous quarter's 290,200 contracts

May 06, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

FX trading activity at Moscow Exchange increases by another 16.8% in April

Moscow Exchange's FX volumes went from strength to strength in April FX Market saw the highest levels of activity, a remarkable dynamic being that FX trading volumes increased by 16.8% compared with March, which was a strong month in itself, with a 12.2% increase over February

May 06, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

LCG appoints former IG Group senior sales trader Victoria Webb as Head of Sales Trading

After 7 years at IG Group in Chicago, Singapore and London, Victoria Webb joins London Capital Group as Head of Sales Trading

May 06, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Virtu sees Q1 Trading Revenues up 40%, led by 103% rise in Currencies

With an adjusted EBITDA margin of 70.5% for the first quarter, Virtu Financial's CEO Douglas Cifu said "We benefited from our diversity and were able to realize $148.4 million in Adjusted Net Trading Income due to increased volumes and volatility across our business, with particularly strong performance in Global Commodities and Global Currencies."

May 06, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

LeapRate TV: Addleshaw Goddard partner Brian McDonnell on binary options regulation, and HFT

Brian McDonnell, a partner at prominent London law firm Addleshaw Goddard talks to Andrew Saks-McLeod about the future of HFT, and says "the regulation by the FCA of binary options is a done deal!"

May 06, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

A rock and a hard place snags the Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Guest Editorial

"Who would want to be a central banker? On one hand you have very real threats to the economy in the form of weaker export receipts, rising unemployment and downturns expected in the economies of your major trading partners" - Ross Woodfield, Research Analyst for Blackwell Global

Today's the day! View from Britain's FX senior executives on the day of the most unpredictable general election in 30 years

Saxo Bank Head of Platforms Christian Hammer: SaxoTraderGo is first step towards a new disruptive platform offering

PFSOFT courts the British trader; adds spread betting to its ProTrader platform

EXNESS introduces round-the-clock client support in Thai and Vietnamese

FC Stone sees Revenues up 14% in Q2

FX trading activity at Moscow Exchange increases by another 16.8% in April

LCG appoints former IG Group senior sales trader Victoria Webb as Head of Sales Trading

Virtu sees Q1 Trading Revenues up 40%, led by 103% rise in Currencies

LeapRate TV: Addleshaw Goddard partner Brian McDonnell on binary options regulation, and HFT

A rock and a hard place snags the Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Guest Editorial

ASX Announces Launch of Morning and Evening Peak Electricity Contracts

Euronext Q2 Revenue Rises 12.8%

FCA Fines Sigma Broking Limited £1.1 Million for Transaction Reporting Failures

Robinhood Transaction-Based Revenues Jump 65% in Q2

ASX Chief Compliance Officer Daniel Moran Resigns