LeapRate is pleased to speak with Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Fortex, on the topic of hosting for Forex brokers.
Read moreIt wasn't only retail forex brokers which got hit hard from the January Swiss Franc spike. The removal of an implied floor on the Franc by the Swiss National Bank back on January 15 - which sent the Swiss Franc soaring more than 20%+ against most other currencies - came as a surprise to many in…
Read moreWall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) reported Q3 results which disappointed investors, sending its shares diving about 6% in pre-market trading Monday. The culprit at Morgan Stanley which most street analysts are pointing to is the company's 17% drop in Trading Revenue during the quarter, with its clients staying away from the bond, currency and commodity markets.…
Read moreBitcoin back above $270 for first time since early August - but this time might be different.
Read moreContinuing our exclusive coverage of the events unfolding at forex solutions provider oneZero, LeapRate has learned that the outages hitting oneZero and thereby some of its hosted clients over the past week are the result of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks being made against the company. After engaging multiple security contractors, the company has isolated the attacks…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Forex platform and brokerage firm XTB has hired Joshua Raymond to act as head of its retail brokerage arm XTB Online Trading in the UK. Raymond will report directly to XTB CEO Jacob Zablocki, who will continue to oversee both the retail (XTB) and institutional (X Open Hub) sides…
Read moreThe emails detail nine outages from October 5 through October 13 of lengths varying from 72 minutes to six minutes. The outages continued today...
Read moreFurther to our breaking the news that South Africa retail forex broker ACM Gold has had its FSB license reinstated after spending more than two months in regulatory limbo, LeapRate has received a formal statement from the company confirming the result. The ACM Gold statement reads as follows: --------- Onwards and Upwards for ACM Gold…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Forex solutions provider oneZero Financial Systems has experienced a number of outages since early last week. The outages have apparently affected a number of oneZero's hosted clients. We have been told that one outage lasted over one hour, and at least three of the outages have been for over half an hour, the…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that ACM Gold, one of South Africa's leading retail forex brokers, has had its license reinstated by South African financial regulator, the Financial Services Board (FSB). LeapRate was first to report that ACM had its FSB license suspended to 'provisionally withdrawn' by South African financial regulator the Financial Services Board (FSB) back on August…
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