May 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FXStreet's new website goes live (again)

After a stutter start last month which saw their newly redesigned website go from beta to live and then taken back down again following a series of glitches and crashes, popular FX trader website FXStreet has taken the plunge again and relaunched their new website at fxstreet.com. FXStreet management is of course confident that the kinks…

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May 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FXStreet's new website goes live (again)

After a stutter start last month which saw their newly redesigned website go from beta to live and then taken back down again following a series of glitches and crashes, popular FX trader website FXStreet has taken the plunge again and relaunched their new website at fxstreet.com. FXStreet management is of course confident that the kinks…

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May 12, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FINRA fines broker Stephens Inc. $900,000 over flash emails

U.S. Securities industry regulator FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) has announced today that it has censured Stephens Inc. of Little Rock, Arkansas, and fined the firm $900,000 for inadequately supervising firm-wide internal "flash" emails sent by its research analysts. In settling this matter, Stephens neither admitted nor denied the charges, but consented to entry of…

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May 11, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Kraken adds Ether dark pool trading

Bitcoin and digital exchange operator Kraken has announced that it became the first and only exchange to offer clients Ether (ETH) Dark Pool trading. The Ether Dark Pool allows clients to discreetly place large ether orders without exposing their intentions to the public, lit order book. The introduction of Kraken’s Ether Dark Pool comes in…

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May 11, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream starts reporting volumes: $18 billion ADV in April

Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream might have surprised some folks today when they - for the first time - announced the FX trading volumes supported on their system, as well as the size of those volumes. First off, the data. FXSpotStream reported that April volumes on its system averaged $18 billion (single count) daily, 2%…

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