Retail forex broker and provider of FX and CFD trading, FXCM (NYSE: FXCM) have announced a series of new data products. FXCM have been primarily using their historic trading and execution data for internal purposes. However, the broker is now offering a suite of historic and real time data to suit different trading requirements. FXCM’s core market…
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The following article was written by Giles Coghlan, Chief Currency Analyst at HYCM. A Brief History In some ways, gold is like the ugly duckling of asset classes. Long before economist John Maynard Keynes famously called it the “barbarous relic” there was a history of various commentators referring to the yellow metal as “a relic…
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KRM22 plc, (AIM: KRM) the technology and software investment company that focuses on risk management for capital markets, have announced yesterday that they have added Steve Sparke to their team as a Non-Executive Director of the Company. Sparke will replace Matt Reed, Independent Non-Executive Director, who is stepping down to focus on other business commitments.…
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Fintech software provider of financial solutions TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) announced that they have decided to make substantial adjustments to their operating structure and cost base while seeking to develop its newer blockchain based businesses. The company's 51% owned B2C subsidiary, DragonFinancials has suffered from an increasingly challenging regulatory and business environment, resulting in losses which started in…
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Boerse Stuttgart has released its volume report for the month of November and has generated turnover of around EUR 6,1 billion, up 14% YoY. Securitised derivatives made up the largest share of the turnover with a trading volume of around EUR 2,4 billion. Leverage products generated more than EUR 1.3 billion. Investment products contributed over…
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The Eurex Exchange, a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse and Europe’s largest trading platform for derivatives and the third largest in the world, is now expanding the offerings of its clearing mechanism to include EUR/USD and GBP/USD cross-currency swap transactions. Industry observers see this move as one more step towards central clearing for the forex industry.…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for December 3, 2019. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX Market sentiment took a turn to a more defensive stance, following a Monday packed with belligerence on the trade front as the US announced its intention to impose…
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B2Broker, a liquidity and technology provider of solutions for the crypto and foreign exchange (FX) industry, have just announced that they have expanded their Crypto/CFD liquidity offering, introducing 61 new pairs. LeapRate reminds that B2Broker was the first liquidity provider to launch 39 Crypto CFD pairs with a leverage of 1:5. The 61 new Crypto…
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Financial software provider Devexperts have just announced that they have integrated their AI digital assistant Devexa with cTrader platform. Devexa is a multi-language digital trading assistant and chatbot for brokers. It provides a new means of trading and on-the-go market information (i.e. interactive charts, news, stock fundamentals, etc.) via mobile messengers and smart speakers. Brokers…
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The NASDAQ-listed asset management company WisdomTree and online Swiss bank Swissquote Group Holding SA (SWX:SQN) have just announced that they have launched an Exchange Traded Product (ETP) investing in Bitcoin on the Swiss stock exchange SIX. The product is physically backed by Bitcoin. The product is immediately tradable at SIX for professional investors in USD (ticker: BTWC) and…
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