City Index, a trading name of GAIN Capital UK Limited, has become the latest Forex broker to redesign its website. The new website is less heavy in terms of text, in line with a growing trend of Forex companies betting on graphical content to get the attention of existing and potential clients. At the same…
Read moreBitcoin exchange Kraken has registered more than a twofold rise in the number of new accounts since the announcement of the acquisition of Coinsetter and Cavirtex and the expansion of the company into 37 US states. The company notes that this steep increase does not include the number of migrated accounts, as a result of the…
Read moreThe position of Russian regulators regarding crypto currencies in general and Bitcoin, in particular, has yet to be made clear. Whereas in 2014 the Bank of Russia dubbed Bitcoin a type of money surrogate and warned against it, the law is not precise regarding the status of Bitcoin and its use. This is about to…
Read moreBGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:BGCP), an international brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, today announces that it has sealed a committed unsecured credit agreement with a group of lenders. The agreement provides for maximum revolving loans of $150 million, with the option to increase the aggregate loans to $200 million. On February 25,…
Read moreMetaQuotes Software, the developer of the popular MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5) platforms today announces that clients of 190 brokers already use the MetaTrader Virtual Hosting service. The service has been particularly useful for traders that use trading robots and/or have subscribed to signals, as these require continuous operation. MetaQuotes also notes that…
Read moreRussian retail bank VTB 24 intends to set up a subsidiary to offer Forex trading services. The VTB 24 press service informed Russian agency Interfax that the supervisory council of the bank will discuss these plans at a meeting on February 26, 2016 (today). According to Interfax, the bank will review a proposal to establish a subsidiary…
Read moreFurther to LeapRate's report about London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LON:LSE) and Deutsche Boerse AG (ETR:DB1) discussing a merger, the two companies have today provided more details about the potential deal. A combined group will be formed as a result of the merger. It will be domiciled in London and will have LSEG in London…
Read moreThe UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has on Thursday published the provisional findings of its market review into the ownership and competitiveness of the infrastructure that supports the payments systems; Bacs, Faster Payments System (FPS) and LINK. The above-mentioned payment systems are currently owned by a relatively small number of banks, which also control the…
Read moreSocial investment services provider eToro keeps beefing up the capabilities of its mobile applications, with the Social Trading app for Android devices getting updated earlier this week. After adding seamless switching between Real & Virtual accounts to the capabilities of the solution in January, eToro is making further strides into improving the trading experience for fans of…
Read moreA follow-up to LeapRate's earlier report about the collaboration between Lars Seier Christensen, Saxo Bank co-founder and former co-CEO, and Bjarne Riis, a former manager of the Tinkoff-Saxo team and 1996 Tour de France winner. Earlier today, Mr Riis and Mr Christensen unveiled more information about the project, dubbed Riis*Seier. Both have invested around EUR 5…
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