LeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned that Estonia based Retail FX brokerage firm Admiral Markets Group AS has posted a nice 17% rise in Revenues for 2017, with the company bringing in €27.0 million (USD $31.6 million), versus €23.0 million in 2016. Most of the growth came in the second half of the year, with 2H-2018…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that former ADSS and Saxo Bank executive Jamieson Blake has left his new job with Basset & Gold after less than two months, joining interdealer broker Compagnie Financière Tradition as Business Development Manager. He will be based in London for the Swiss listed company. LeapRate had exclusively reported back in…
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Retail FX broker FXCM has announced that its volumes in June were down by 5% month-over-month, $202 billion versus $212 billion in May. We are expecting a (quiet) rebranding of FXCM in the coming weeks. FXCM incorporated the name of its parent company Leucadia into its logo a few months back. However Leucadia recently renamed itself Jefferies Financial…
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FX liquidity and prime brokerage services provider IS Prime has announced that Terry Gill, former Director at Edgewater Markets, has joined IS Prime’s Agency Execution team in a newly created Institutional Sales role. The appointment reflects the firm’s commitment to the growth of its Agency Execution business, having recently announced the addition of NDFs and Forwards…
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LMAX Global, the FCA regulated FX brokerage arm of the LMAX Exchange Group, has announced the launch of an MT5 white label solution in partnership with Tools for Brokers (TFB), a leading software provider for FX brokers operating on Metatrader platforms. The partnership creates a market leading and technically robust solution for brokers, who would…
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FCA and CySEC licensed Retail FX broker Exness has reported June FX trading volumes of $308.6 billion - down 22% from May's record $395 billion, but still very strong from a historical perspective. Exness averaged $269 billion in monthly volumes during 2017. Overall in the first half of 2018, Exness saw a total of $2.068 trillion of client…
Read moreUnder what new names (and website URLs) did ADS Securities and iForex each rebrand? And why? What warning did Australia regulator ASIC make to Forex and Binary Options brokers? Which well-known global Retail FX broker gave up its CySEC CIF license? And why? Which executives joined Stater Global Markets and ADSS? Answers to these questions…
Read moreCyprus financial regulator CySEC has announced that at its meeting of June 25, 2018, it has decided to wholly withdraw the Cyprus Investment Firm (CIF) authorisation license with number CIF 159/11 of the company Blackwell Global Investments (Cyprus) Ltd. CySEC did not give any specific reason for its decision. However we understand that the giving up…
Read moreThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that the Honorable Gloria M. Navarro of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada (Las Vegas) entered an Order of Summary Judgment against Defendant Mirko (Mick) Schacke of Brentwood, California (formerly Antioch, California), and a Default Judgment against Schacke’s company, TradeMasters USA, LLC of Las Vegas, Nevada. The…
Read moreThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it has charged a former Equifax manager with insider trading in advance of the company’s September 2017 announcement of a massive data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information of approximately 148 million U.S. customers. This is the second case the SEC…
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