Moscow Exchange (MOEX) suspended trading on the Forex and precious metals market for more than an hour today, with the extraordinary situation blamed on technical problems. Trading on the foreign exchange and precious metals markets was halted today at 11:26 (Moscow Time) and was resumed at 12:40 (Moscow Time). In a subsequent announcement, the Exchange…
Read moreAn update to clients of insolvent retail Forex broker Alpari (UK) Limited appeared earlier today on the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) website. The announcement would be of interest to those (former) clients of the broker that decide to make a separate claim for compensation to FSCS. Those clients should explicitly state their intention to…
Read moreAn update to LeapRate's article from February 18, 2015... The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) today extended the suspension of the license of Pulp International Business Ltd, the company which owns the FxPulp brand. On March 2, 2015, the Board of Directors of the regulator decided to keep the license of the Forex broker, which…
Read moreFrance's Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the national securities market watchdog, earlier today updated its “Black List” of binary options brokers that offer their services in the country without having the necessary license for that. The list now features an impressive number of 189 companies, up from the 155 entries in the list as of December…
Read moreSecurities market regulators of Canadian provinces seem to be competing with each other on which one will issue the highest number of warnings against investment companies. British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) added its weight to the growing watchfulness by issuing a warning regarding ZuluTrade, which most of us know as a provider of Forex and…
Read moreJapan-headquartered retail Forex broker Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698) this morning reported its operating metrics for February 2015. The second month of the year was rather challenging for the Forex broker, with global Forex volumes staging a drop in monthly and annual terms. The reasons for such a decline may seem obvious to many given that…
Read moreFebruary turned out to be a rather successful month at the Moscow Exchange, the biggest venue for trading currencies and derivatives in Russia and CIS. Earlier today, MOEX posted its operating metrics for the second month of 2015, with the results removing much of the gloom seen in January 2015, when FX volumes in the…
Read moreICAP Plc (LON:IAP), the expert in online trading, earlier today posted its operating metrics for February 2015. As usual, we take a detailed look at the performance of EBS, ICAP's electronic FX platform, with the data painting a rather diverse picture depending on whether investors focus on the monthly or annual comparisons. Average daily volumes…
Read moreThe Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has last night published a report on enforcement activity in 2014, with the numbers showing a drop in the number of cases where enforcement action had to be taken and, yet, a rise in the sum raised with regard to such action. According to the report, monetary sanctions against those…
Read moreGulliver FX Ltd, a UK-based subsidiary of Yahoo Japan Corporation (TYO:4689), has just announced it would beef up the menu of trading instruments it offers to its clients. The company said it would soon add Gold, Silver and Oil products to the lineup, with some tests being currently conducted. For that matter, the broker notes…
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