Maria Nikolova
LeapRate Analyst
October 26, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Sucden Financial announces new senior management team hires

International derivatives broker Sucden Financial Limited continues to strengthen its management. After naming Gavin Parker Chief Operating Officer in September this year, the company keeps beefing up its senior management team and today announced two new additions to this team. Marc Bailey joins Sucden as Managing Director, whereas Toby Osborne has been appointed as Finance Director.…

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October 26, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Italian regulator warns against social trading network Investocopy

Italy's financial markets watchdog Consob has earlier today updated its list of unauthorized investment companies. Amid the latest additions to the list of such unauthorized businesses is Investocopy Network Ltd (Cipro), a company that offers a raft of social trading and copy trading services, targeting Italian investors. The regulator notes that Investocopy Network Ltd (Cipro)…

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October 26, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

MT5 enables direct payments for virtual hosting, signal subscriptions

After enabling payments for virtual hosting and signal subscriptions directly from the MetaTrader 4 (MT4) platform, MetaQuotes Software is offering analogical capabilities to users of MetaTrader 5 (MT5). The company has announced that payment for virtual hosting and trading signal subscriptions can now be done directly from MT5. Traders can pay from their bank card…

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October 26, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

FBS opens new office in Kuala Lumpur

FBS Markets Inc, a Belize-registered Forex broker which focuses on clients in Asia mostly, on Friday announced the addition of one more representative office. This time the company has secured a representative office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, marking the 12th international office for the broker. The address of the new office is: 18-3A Cascade, Jln…

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October 26, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

MB Trading says FX accounts migrated to TradeKing

A follow-up on the topic of MB Trading's acquisition by TradeKing... MB Trading has announced that it stopped directly supporting Forex trading on Friday, October 23, 2015. As a result, MB Trading Desktop Pro forex accounts were migrated to the TradeKing ForexTrader platform. MB Trading MetaTrader 4 Forex account balances were moved to a new TradeKing…

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October 24, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

US Forex brokers face tighter cybersecurity requirements

Soon after US Forex broker FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) announced it was a victim of a criminal cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to customer information, the US financial industry regulators are stepping up their efforts to improve information systems security. The National Futures Association (NFA) announced on Friday that it will tighten the requirements regarding cybersecurity for…

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October 23, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Velocimetrics, Solarflare partner to offer real-time management, analysis of trading activities

Business flow performance analytics firm Velocimetrics and provider of network data solutions Solarflare have teamed up to help high volume trading firms manage emerging risks, perform business and technical level analysis and satisfy regulatory commitments with a fully integrated, cost-effective and controlled approach. The two companies are joining their efforts to offer a distributed and…

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