ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for December 16, 2019. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The euro started the week on the front foot, reaching 1.1150 against the US dollar, after good news on the trade front. US trade representative Robert Lighthizer stated…
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CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has just published its operating metrics for the month of November 2019. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.61 trillion, down 10 percent from USD1.79 trillion in October 2019. Average daily traded volume submitted to CLS by…
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LeapRate spoke to Barry Flanigan, Head of Electronic Trading Solutions at IS Prime to discuss the challenges faced by brokers when diversifying into new markets and the importance of optimising both systems and operations in order to remain competitive. LR: ESMA has resulted in brokers needing to diversify. To remain competitive, many have had to…
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The following article was submitted by Michael Stark, market analyst at Exness. Positivity dominated in many markets on Monday morning GMT after the USA and China had reached a preliminary trade deal at the end of last week. The two countries held separate press conferences on Friday to announce that they’d achieved what the media are calling…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of several unregulated firms. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are ash.trades, Easy Money Finance, Miyamoto, Asuka and Associates, The Financial Consultancy Group (Scam), Best Returns, Cash FX Group. According to the regulator, the fraudsters are using or giving out…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for December 13, 2019. So the results are in and as widely tipped by the polls, the Conservatives have secured a significant majority in the UK Election. It now appears very likely Boris Johnson will follow through on…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for December 13, 2019. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX/BREXIT The pound’s reaction to the Conservative landslide is a sigh of relief from markets. Sterling gained almost 2% following the publication of the first exit polls, which pointed…
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International forex technology company, Tools for Brokers, has just announced that t has added to its Trade Processor system aggregation and consolidation features. Trade Processor 3.0 is a secure, multi-part modular system, integrated with MT4 and MT5. It combines a risk-free liquidity bridge and a market making order pool, which offers advanced bridging and all…
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Veterans of the payment industry can remember the advent of point-of-sale electronic terminals back in the early eighties, and one of the early pioneers in this effort to automate merchant acceptance of payment cards was Ingenico. The Ingenico Group, headquartered in Paris, France, has grown and prospered with the industry over the past four decades.…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) has announced its foreign exchange (FX) futures reached a new single-day volume record of 2.7 million contracts on December 11, 2019. Previous record of 2.5 million contracts was set on June 14, 2017. Open interest (OI) for CME Group FX futures also reached a record 2.3 million contracts on December…
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