April 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FxPro adds MT4 Web to offering

Retail FX and CFD broker FxPro announces that as of today traders may log into their MT4 account(s) via the new MT4 Web Terminal from MetaQuotes. To check out the offering, visit https://mt4webtrader.fxpro.com/. The MT4 Web Terminal offers much of the functionality of the popular desktop platform, while being less resource intensive and allowing traders to…

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April 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FXCM relaunches FXCMPro prime services

FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) continues the rebuilding of its FX trading franchise. The provider of FX trading and related services today announced the relaunch of FXCMPro.com, its institutional prime brokerage arm. LeapRate had exclusively reported last year that FXCM was looking for a buyer for FXCMPro, as it was looking generally to sell assets to pay…

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April 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Tradimo adds Chinese to Little Traders language lineup

Less than a week after Tradimo announced that its innovative mobile application Little Traders is available in German and Arabic, on top of English, one more language is added to the lineup – Chinese. The move is set to apparently widen the number of users diving into 1920s Great Gatsby retro pixel environment as they…

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April 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

MasterCard, Western Union, bKash launch new international remittance receiving service in Bangladesh

Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA), The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), bKash and BRAC Bank today announce the launch of a new, international remittance receiving service in Bangladesh. The new service enables bKash’s registered customers to use their mobile phones to get remittances from abroad directly into their bKash accounts. bKash has attracted more than 22 million customers…

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April 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FXTM announces launch of its fully operational division in the UK

We believe that this is called 'coming full circle'. Retail FX broker ForexTime Limited (FXTM) has announced the opening of its fully operational division in the UK. Located in the City of London, the UK division will service retail and institutional clients, offering them access to FXTM's products and services. Some brief history... FXTM was…

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April 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

TriOptima announces completion of first triReduce compression cycle for cleared SEK swaps in Nasdaq

Post trade infrastructure provider TriOptima, part of ICAP plc (LON:IAP), has announced that Nasdaq members completed the first successful compression cycle for cleared Swedish Krona (SEK) interest rate swaps. More than 40% of the cleared outstanding SEK swap inventory was eliminated in this first collaboration between Nasdaq and TriOptima. Johan Rudén, Senior Vice President and…

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April 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Yahoo's FX broker YJFX updates on data breach incident

A follow-up to LeapRate's earlier report about a former employee of Japanese FX broker YJFX, a subsidiary of Yahoo Japan Corporation (TYO:4689), stealing loads of customer data... The broker announced today that an external professional, hired to conduct an investigation into the breach, has concluded its check, with no further leaks of information detected. YJFX…

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April 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Invast Securities registers 7.7% M/M drop in revenues in March 2016

Japanese online trading company Invast Securities Co., Ltd. (TYO:8709) has just published its financial metrics for March 2016, with revenues failing to match the result registered in February 2016. The company reported operating revenues of JPY 346 million ($3.18 million) for March 2016, a result which is 7.7% lower than the result of JPY 375…

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April 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Plus500 registers 26% Q/Q growth in revenues in Q1 2016

Retail FX and CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has earlier today published a trading update for the first three months of 2016, with revenues staging a rise in both quarterly and annual terms, In fact, quarterly revenues hit a record level of $85.2 million, up 26% from the preceding quarter and up 4% from the…

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April 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

ASX welcomes PRO IT to Australian Liquidity Centre

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Friday announced that provider of data centre infrastructure support services PRO IT is the newest Managed Service Provider to join the financial markets community in the Australian Liquidity Centre.  PRO IT will be co-locating in the Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC), ASX’s state-of-the-art data centre. The addition of PRO…

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