Bats Global Markets, the parent of Hotspot FX, has just unveiled its new global logo and a number of changes to the company and market center naming conventions. The company has officially changed BATS Global Markets (BATS) to Bats Global Markets (Bats), with the word Bats title-cased vs. all uppercase letters. The company has applied…
Read moreOffshore retail Forex broker Gold Pegasus, operating as GPFX, has discontinued its operations earlier this week. The company, registered in the following address in the BVI, P.O.Box 957, Offshore Incorporations Centre, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, cited “various circumstances” for its decision to exit the business completely. While active, the company used to target…
Read moreThe Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) continues to add unlicensed Forex brokers to its Warning List. Less than a month after one of the strictest Canadian financial regulators issued a warning against retail forex broker Sumo Forex Limited, the watchdog publishes a warning against CMS Ventures Limited (also known as Pandorx Ventures Ltd.) The company is…
Read moreCySEC-regulated Forex broker RoboForex has announced that it will change the margin requirements for positions in CFDs on US and German companies' shares. The new margin requirement for these instruments is 5%, compared with a current level of 2%. The changes are effective February 22, 2016. The margin requirement for CFDs on indices and oil…
Read moreCBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:CBOE), the holding company for Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), announced on Wednesday that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.23 per share. The quarterly cash dividend of $0.23 per share of common stock will be payable on March 18, 2016, to…
Read moreAfter recently unveiling a partnership with Kenandy, OANDA announces another collaboration in the FX rates area. OANDA announces today that it has teamed up with NetSuite, a cloud-based provider of integrated ERP and related business management technologies, in a move that will grant NetSuite users direct access to OANDA's currency information via a new application.…
Read moreBinary options platform provider SpotOption today announces that the number of downloads of their mobile application has reached 5 million, as popularity of mobile solutions gathers speed. The company attributes the recent growth in popularity to operator encouragement, as the benefits and opportunities have become more evident. Allowing traders to trade on-the-go, from any location obviously…
Read moreSocial trading network eToro keeps beefing up the offering to its clients. Just a couple of months after the company added 139 CFDs on stock of Chinese, Russian and US companies to its offering, it further increases the variety of such instruments. Today, it announced that 190 new US stocks are joining the lineup. The new shares…
Read moreUK CFD and Forex broker Z.com Trade, which yesterday informed its clients of system issues that have led to troubles with trading several CFDs, today provided an update on the matter. The company, which is a subsidiary of GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), said that the system issues that led to the suspension in trading in…
Read moreThe Trustee of now defunct Japanese Bitcoin exchange MTGOX today published the report distributed at the fifth creditors’ meeting. In the report, the Trustee provides information on the current status of claims filed against the company, as well as the ongoing investigations into the disappearance of Bitcoins from the Exchange. Putting it briefly, the amount…
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