After announcing its best quarter in more than a year last month, retail and institutional FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has today released April trading volumes indicating the company's slowest month of 2018 to date. However, in the big picture we'd also note that volumes remain well above 2017 averages of $206…
Read moreFCA regulated Retail FX and CFDs broker Admiral Markets has just announced that its clients holding MetaTrader 5 accounts are given access to a much greater variety of stocks and share CFDs, as well as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which have been introduced by the broker for the first time. The new instruments include: Admiral.MT5 account:…
Read moreFCA regulated FX and CFDs broker ActivTrades has announced the introduction of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to its global client base. ETFs are marketable securities that can be used to track an index, commodity, bonds or a basket of assets like an index fund. As the underlying index increases in value the ETF increases too.…
Read moreINTL FCStone Inc (NASDAQ:INTL), a diversified global financial services organization providing execution, risk management and advisory services, market intelligence and clearing services across asset classes and markets around the world, today announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2018 second quarter ended March 31, 2018. Overall, Q2 operating revenues were up 33% from Q2-2017, to…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Geneva and Latvia based Retail FX brokerage group Dukascopy continued its weak performance from the first half of 2017 into the second half of the year. Overall, Dukascopy posted Revenues of CHF 29.1 million (USD $29.0 million) in 2017, down 12% from CHF 33.2 million in 2016. The company…
Read moreThe company reported that VT Markets Pty Ltd possesses the most advanced technologies of the group and will make major breakthroughs in all aspects of mobile network applications, online transactions, trading communities and intelligent transactions. According to these reports, VT Markets will launch their state-of-the-art mobile trading App in May 2018. As was also exclusively…
Read moreFCA regulated online CFD brokerage house CMC Markets Institutional (LON:CMCX) has announced that it will be offering its eligible existing and new clients the opportunity to switch to its new CMC Pro account. Following the recent announcement by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), retail clients will no longer be able to trade using…
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Continuing a very strong start to the year in which it saw more than a trillion dollars of trading volumes in Q1, FCA and CySEC licensed Retail FX broker Exness has reported that April client volumes came in at $364.3 billion. April volumes were actually down 3% from March's record $375.4 billion, but still represent…
Read moreFor the second month in a row, it looks like Forex and multi-asset trading volumes have fallen by more than 20% at Copenhagen based Retail FX broker Saxo Bank. After reporting record volumes in February, total volumes fell by 23% in March and now again by another 21% in April at Saxo Bank. For April,…
Read moreInvestment company Leucadia National Corp (NYSE:LUK) - which is in the process of rebranding itself to Jefferies Financial Group - has issued its 10Q quarterly report for Q1-2018, providing an update among other things on its outstanding loan to Retail FX broker FXCM Group. In the big picture, Leucadia reported that to date (as of March…
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