Mike Fox
LeapRate Analyst
September 18, 2014 BY Mike Fox

HotForex updates features to its WebTrader

HotForex, the Mauritius headquartered and fully regulated Forex broker informed clients today that its WebTrader’s highly customizable trading environment is going from strength to strength and latest update brings improved responsiveness and even better performance. They state the WebTrader interface has been automatically updated, so when clients login they will have immediate access to the new features…

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September 18, 2014 BY Mike Fox

ICAP up 4.8% Wednesday to £3.76 after UBS took the stock off its “sell” list

ICAP, (LON:IAP) leading provider of a wide variety of electronic execution, broking, risk mitigation, messaging, and information services to wholesale market participants got a boost in it's stock price Wednesday as fast moving geopolitical events keep stacking up across the globe providing some juice to a summer of otherwise tamed volume figures. Bryce Elder from…

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September 17, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Aviva Investors appoints four people to its multi-asset team

Reuters is reporting that Aviva Investors, Aviva Plc's asset management business appointed four people to its multi-asset team. Trevor Leydon was named head of investment risk and portfolio construction from his previous post as head of investment risk of the team's fixed income business. Aviva Investors said Wei-Jin Tan will join Leydon's team in October.…

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September 17, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Binary options are now available to Dukascopy's White-Label partners

Dukascopy officially announced today on their company news page that it's now ready to offer binary options to its White-Label partners. The service has been integrated in the WL infrastructure. This news comes as last week Dukascopy also revealed that Binary options trading is now available for Dukascopy Europe clients. Trading conditions are identical to…

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September 17, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Report: State Street tells it's head of Forex to stay out of the office

Amid a widening regulatory probe into currency trading, State Street has asked its foreign exchange trading chief to stay away from the office, Dow Jones reported, citing unnamed sources. Simon Pepper, the London-based head of FX spot trading, has been away from the U.K. office for the past two weeks, sources told the publication. A…

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September 17, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Swissquote Daily Technical Report: GBP/USD - Approaching the resistance at 1.6340

In Swissquote’s Wednesday short term technical trading report, the research team outlines the major technical levels of popular currency instruments with forecasts, below is the outline for GBP/USD and GBP/JPY. To view and download the entire report, click here (PDF). GBP/USD: Approaching the resistance at 1.6340 • GBP/USD is getting closer to its resistance at…

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September 17, 2014 BY Mike Fox

FXBeat closes its doors...

FXBeat closes its doors (*here is the note left on it's website). Thank you, After one year of growing our product and community, we're sad to announce that we are closing our doors next October, 15th. We can't express enough how grateful we are that you believed in us and found value in the product we…

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September 16, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Phil Weisberg: Evolution of a Market Structure

Phil Weisberg, Global Head of FX Thomson Reuters opines on the Forex industry from increased regulation and public scrutiny to a fall in volume, also saying the market is caught in headwinds that will drive major structural changes...

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