Category: Brokers

April 09, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Polish forex broker XTB claims blackmail, ex-client claims fraud, KNF investigates

A war of words is brewing between Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), a former disgruntled client named Krzysztof Kramarczyk, Poland’s Financial Supervision Authority (Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego, or KNF), and Polish prosecutors with charges of asymmetric slippage, fraud, and blackmail being bandied about. X Trade Brokers operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub…

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April 05, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM FX trading volumes down 12% in March to $210 billion

Retail FX broker FXCM continued its strong start to 2018, although March wasn't quite as good as January or February. FXCM reported client trading volumes of $210 billion for March 2018, 12% below February's $239 billion. Keeping in mind, however, that January and February were FXCM's best months since the February 2017 crisis which saw FXCM exit the…

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April 04, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

CFI Group unifies names under the Credit Financier Invest - CFI brand

Leading investment and trading corporation CFI Financial Group Holding has announced that it has joined the forces of all its corporate entities under the name Credit Financier Invest and CFI brand. As of April 3, 2018, the company's Larnaca based CySEC regulated subsidiary CFI Markets Ltd. becomes Credit Financier Invest (CFI) Ltd., in line with the other group…

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April 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FINAM to offer MetaTrader 5 with single account support

Russian broker FINAM Forex announced that it has connected the new platform to its single trading account. Now, the broker's clients can trade MOEX, SPB Exchange, NYSE and Nasdaq instruments via MetaTrader 5. This is a persuasive response to the popular comment of technology pessimists who claim that, "The platform is good, but you need…

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April 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Z.com Trade changes its Classic Account to market execution expanding liquidity sources

Z.com Trade, the FCA regulated brokerage arm of Japanese retail forex giant GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), has announced that effective today the execution mode on its Classic Account will be changed to Market Execution. Currently Z.com Trade's Classic Account uses the Instant Execution mode, however this setting unfortunately limits the liquidity sources available. This change is necessary…

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March 29, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

CMC Markets reports strong Q4 but fewer active clients in 2018

As we have seen throughout most of the past year from it, FCA regulated online CFD brokerage house CMC Markets Institutional (LON:CMCX) has issued something of a mixed-message Trading Update leading up to the close of its current fiscal year on March 31, 2018. CMC stated that its "strong year to date performance" was been maintained…

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