Retail Forex broker Alpari's trading turnover across key international markets for the month of September came out to 116.6 billion USD. The broker pointed out that its clients continue to trade actively despite the declining turnover on the popular EURUSD currency pair. Volatility on the pair for September remained at one of the lowest levels…
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Shares of leading publicly traded Retail FX and CFD brokers traded down on Wednesday and early Thursday, in concert with the global stock market selloff taking place over the last 24 hours. Led by a dive in US shares on Wednesday which saw the Dow Jones and S&P indices off by more than 3%, and…
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ASIC regulated Retail FX and CFDs broker FP Markets has announced that it has just added the multi-asset platform MetaTrader 5 to its offering of existing trading solutions. FP Markets is a forex broker with over 13 years of experience in the industry. The new platform enables the company to offer more tools for comprehensive…
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Shares of Retail FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) rose by more than 9% on Tuesday after the company revealed plans to buy back up to $50 million of its own shares. Gain Capital's plans involve a Dutch Auction style buyback, which will see it pay between $7.24 and $7.94 per share tendered in…
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UK FCA regulated global provider of FX and CFD brokerage services Tickmill has announced today the Group consolidated trading volume for September 2018 which came in at $117.7 billion, up by 58.9% from September 2017. The September trading volume figure is the highest to have been recorded by Tickmill and reflects the Group’s accelerated growth…
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FX brokerage group GAIN Capital Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GCAP), which operates the FOREX.com and City Index Retail Forex brands, has announced that it commenced a "modified Dutch auction" tender offer to purchase up to $50 million of shares of its common stock, or such lesser number of shares of its common stock as are properly tendered and not properly…
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ASIC regulated Retail FX broker GO Markets has announced that it now provides the ability to its clients to trade via MetaTrader 5. GO Markets customers have access to the desktop, mobile and web platform versions. The Melbourne based company is one of the pioneers of online trading in Australia providing brokerage services in the…
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Online gaming and financial trading company Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) announced late Friday that it has successfully priced €530 million (USD $611 million) in new junk debt. The 3.75% senior secured five-year notes due 2023 are expected to be assigned a rating of BB by S&P Global Ratings Europe Limited, UK Branch and Ba2 by Moody's Investors Service…
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It looks like Saxo Bank's new ownership group has its work cut out. Continuing a very disturbing trend, trading volumes at Copenhagen based Retail FX broker Saxo Bank declined for the fourth consecutive month in September 2018, dropping to their lowest level since 2015. Saxo's all-important FX trading volumes - which account for more than…
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Continuing something of a disturbing trend over the past few months, data from FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) indicate that September was the company's slowest as far as trading volumes go looking back a number of years. GAIN Capital, which operates the Forex.com and City Index online retail trading brands, reported volumes of…
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