LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Pepperstone UK Managing Director Iain Rogers has resigned his position in the company. And, following a brief garden leave, Mr. Rogers plans to join FCA regulated institutional FX and CFDs broker Global Market Index Limited (GMI UK), as the company's new COO. Iain Rogers joined Pepperstone about a year and…
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FCA and CySEC licensed Retail FX broker Exness has reported an 8% rise in FX trading volumes for the month of October 2018, its second consecutive month of growing volumes following a relatively slow summer trading season. October volumes came in at $377.0 billion at Exness, versus $349.1 billion in September. The $377 billion figure represented Exness’…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that leading Australian retail forex brokerage group Pepperstone has continued its impressive growth trajectory, growing the business by more than 50% in Fiscal 2018. Pepperstone has a June 30 fiscal year end, so the results described are for the year ended June 30, 2018. Fiscal 2018 completed…
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What did the FCA have to say about looking at a ban on all leveraged CFDs? What did European regulator ESMA admit about the results of its CFD leverage cap, meant to lower the percentage of retail traders who lose money trading CFDs? Who did IG Group hire as its new CEO? Which UK broker…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that experienced FX industry marketing executive Vincenzo Roselli has joined Markets.com as the company's new Head of Business. Vincenzo Roselli is joining Markets.com, the retail FX arm of Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC), from FX and crypto affiliate group Investoo.com, where he had spent just over a year in charge of growing Investoo’s relationships with…
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Quarterly filings for the end of Q3-2018 from investment company Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE:JEF) – formerly known as Leucadia – indicate that the outstanding amount owed to Jefferies by Retail FX broker FXCM Group as at September 30, 2018 stood basically unchanged from at the end of Q2, at $70.6 million. Which, basically means that during…
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For the second month in a row, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has reported record figures indicating continued and rapid growth for the company. Both October total volumes of $824.6 billion and average October daily volumes of $35.9 billion set (by a wide margin!) new monthly records for FXSpotStream. Best previous results for the company…
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Following our exclusive report from the beginning of last month that London based spreadbetting and CFDs broker Capital Index had made an application to voluntarily give up its CySEC CIF license, CySEC had indeed issued a brief notice that Capital Index (Cyprus) Ltd has had its CIF license withdrawn. We had reported at the time…
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After a very slow September, data from Forex ECN FastMatch indicates that October 2018 saw a modest 3% increase in trading activity, with FX trading volumes coming in at $19.2 billion ADV, versus $18.6 billion ADV the previous month. We'd note that September was the slowest month of 2018 for FastMatch, and volumes remain well below the…
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Data from institutional Forex ECN Cboe FX Markets – formerly known as Hotspot FX – indicates that the company saw average daily volumes climb modestly for the third month in a row, although activity remains well below where it was in the first few months of the year. Cboe FX saw a 1.4% MoM increase in average…
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