Category: Brokers

Tools For Brokers adds Brokers’ Business Intelligence to its Gold package
December 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Tools For Brokers adds Brokers’ Business Intelligence to its Gold package

Tools For Brokers, a provider of fintech solutions for the crypto and forex industry, has just included the basic version of Brokers’ Business Intelligence in the company’s Gold package. Brokers’ Business Intelligence is a cross-functional risk management and business analytics service: the basic version of product includes efficient toolkits for money management and decision making.…

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Gain Capital forex.com
December 11, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

GAIN Capital’s FOREX.com November FX volumes down 10% MoM

After reporting multi-year lows in trading volumes in September, retail FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) had a very nice rebound in October, with volumes up 55% MoM, coming in at $231 billion. November activity at GAIN Capital, which operates the FOREX.com and City Index retail forex brands, was down 10% MoM, dropping at $207 billion. Number of…

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Grand Capital switches to MetaTrader 5 with hedging
December 06, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Grand Capital switches to MetaTrader 5 with hedging

The international broker Grand Capital has just announced that it has launched MetaQuotes' MetaTrader 5 trading platform with hedging. Features of MetaTrader 5 offering include: Advanced trading opportunities: netting and hedging order accounting systems, market depth, separate accounting of orders and deals. Extended analytics: 21 timeframes, in-chart calendar. Developing and testing trading robots: multi-currency strategy tester and…

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FXCM Group adds three new CFD products for trading
December 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXCM Group adds three new CFD products for trading

Retail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC has just announced that it has added three new CFD products which clients can now begin trading. The new products are: Commodity CFDs - WHEATF and CORNF, which have the Wheat and Corn Futures as their underlying references; the Index CFD US2000, a cash-based CFD of the Russell 2000…

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LeapRate Interview: Prokopios Katsaros shares details on TopFX’s 2-in-1 broker solution
December 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

LeapRate Interview: Prokopios Katsaros shares details on TopFX’s 2-in-1 broker solution

Prokopios Katsaros, Head of Brokerage at Cyprus-Based Prime Brokerage TopFX, has joined LeapRate for an interview, sharing details about the company's 2-in-1 broker solution, its partnership with Forex software provider Spotware, and more. LR: Hi Prokopios, and thanks for joining us today. Please let us know a little more about TopFX’s 2-in-1 solution for brokers, and…

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RBA May Rate Meeting
November 30, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Admiral Markets reduces spreads on popular financial instruments

Estonia based Retail FX brokerage firm Admiral Markets Group AS has announced it has reduced its spreads on its most popular financial instruments, including top currency pairs like the EUR/USD. Admiral Markets clients can now trade its most popular Forex currency pairs at the following typical spreads: EUR/USD: 0.6 pips GBP/USD: 1.0 pips USD/JPY: 0.9…

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volumes
November 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exclusive: IS Prime reports continued growth in 2018

LeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned that London based FX liquidity and prime brokerage services provider IS Prime has reported strong financials, with an increase in turnover year end 31 March 2018. Reported figures from the FCA regulated broker show a rise to £17.2 million year end 2018. The financials for IS Prime’s year end 2018 show…

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Plus500 results
November 20, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Plus500: 2018 results ahead of previous market expectations

FCA regulated online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has issued a second Trading Update during Q4. After indicating (in late October) that its Q3 Revenues fell by 40% from the previous quarter to $100.1 million, Plus500 has now announced that the strong momentum reported in its Q3 Trading Update has continued into November to date. Accordingly, the…

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Plus500 office
November 19, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Plus500 continues share buyback acquiring £388,000 in stock

FCA regulated online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has continued to make purchases of its own stock pursuant to a recently announced share buyback. The company announced that last week it acquired a total of 30,455 PLUS shares, at an average share price of £12.744, for a layout of £388,119. That brings the grand total of shares…

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