All IB and affiliate material will need to pass more strict tests LeapRate Exclusive.... Have you ever wondered how long would it take for regulators to target a certain aspect of your business? Well, the ever growing affiliate and IB industry has just bumped into a set of regulatory scrutiny. Consequences for IB’s conducting their…
Read moreThe sharp drop in gold prices is to blame for the underperformance of the bank’s FX portfolio last year The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has released a press release detailing that preliminary calculations are pointing to a massive loss on its FX reserves portfolio in 2013. The result comes as the bank has lost close to CHF…
Read moreEBS forex volumes 23% below last year and 11% below last month Another month passes and another dismal number for ICAP’s EBS comes into the fray. Following the multi-year lows announced in October, the company has reported an 11% drop on last month’s tepid rebound to mark the final month of 2013 at an average of $71 billion…
Read moreShort interest in Gain Capital (NYSE:GCAP) shares hits 22% of float. LeapRate Exclusive.... Retail forex broker Gain Capital, parent of Forex.com and Gain GTX, saw its stock rise by 14% on Friday in what looks to be an upward short squeeze in the company's shares. As we predicted back when a Gain Capital convertible note…
Read moreBinary market is getting crowded, as forex platform providers join the party The hype surrounding the binary options industry goes on as leading platform provider Leverate joined the party today announcing that it is launching its own trading platform solution named BX8. The platform will possess social trading features from the get go and will…
Read moreSaxo Bank averaged $294B monthly in 2013, but second half of the year was 30% below first half Moderation seems to have been the theme during the second part of the year for most industry players as Saxo Bank released its volume metrics numbers on Friday. The company announced that volumes in the month of…
Read moreIG's reorg continues; Jones was one of the more influential London financial research voices for the past decade. LeapRate Exclusive.... LeapRate has learned that longtime Chief Market Strategist David Jones has left UK spreadbetting firm IG (LON:IGG), to take a 'bit of a break', according to his personal website and Twitter feed. Jones stopped writing…
Read moreThe rebound from October’s striking low is solidifying a good year for the company The InterContinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) has released contract volume numbers for the last month of 2013. The company has recorded a year on year drop of 12% announcing 29,110 contracts traded per day in December. The number comes to close an otherwise…
Read moreWhile historically figures remain low, the trend reversal from lows observed in October is on track Major derivatives market place CME Group has reported on the outcome of holiday trading during the month of December. We are observing another mild month on month rise that is negating the multiyear lows observed in October and continues…
Read moreAubrey Lee Price lost millions of his investors’ money, then left a suicide note and disappeared in 2012 A New Year’s Eve celebration in jail – that’s how ex-banker and present fraudster Aubrey Lee Price has ended 2013 after conceding from authorities for more than a year. He went missing back in June 2012 after…
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