Exclusive: Brendan Callan and Jimmy Hallac speak about GLBR Chapter 11 filing and FXCM LeapRate

November 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Brendan Callan and Jimmy Hallac speak about GLBR Chapter 11 filing and FXCM

LeapRate Exclusive Interview... We often begin interviews with leading FX industry figures with a lengthy "setting the stage" intro. But not here. Following this weekend's news of the Chapter 11 reorganization filing by Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR), we're just as curious as our readers to hear directly the people leading FXCM Group, in which GLBR owns…

November 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

IC Markets launches Stock CFDs on MT5

ASIC regulated Retail FX broker International Capital Markets Pty. Ltd. (IC Markets) informed that it has launched Stock CFD trading for clients on the MT5 platform. The release of Stock CFDs follows the addition of the multi asset MetaTrader 5 platform by IC Markets in May earlier this year, along with a number of other…

November 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Saxo Bank multi asset trading volumes down 4% in slow October to $328.5 billion

Continuing a fairly slow October we have seen at some of the world's leading FX and CFD brokers, Copenhagen based multi asset broker Saxo Bank has released figures indicating that FX and overall trading activity was down slightly month-over-month. Overall, total multi-asset trading volumes at Saxo Bank were down 4% MoM in October, $328.5 billion…

November 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM posts Q3 Revenues of $44.0 million down 11% QoQ, $4.2 million Operating Loss

Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR), which owns 50% of Retail FX broker FXCM Group, has filed its third quarter results with U.S. regulatory authorities indicating that it (as well as FXCM) saw Revenues decline by 11% from the second quarter, $44.0 million in Q3 versus $49.4 million in Q2. The company(ies) reported a Q3 net operating…

Dukascopy adds new CFD bonds and indices for trading on LIVE

November 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Dukascopy goes live with Chained Binary Option contracts

After launching in demo mode last month, Geneva based Retail FX broker Dukascopy has announced that its Chained Option Contracts product has been released for Live trading. Binary traders of Dukascopy Bank and Dukascopy Europe can now use two types of automated trading strategies: Winning and Martingale. Winning is a follow-the-trend strategy, one of the most…

November 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Global Brokerage Inc files Chapter 11 and its shares trade down.... just 5%

Let's begin this article with what we wrote over the weekend when word broke of Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR) filing for a "Chapter 11" bankruptcy reorganization - this isn't your typical bankruptcy filing. And, the effects of the filing (if any) on Retail FX broker FXCM, in which Global Brokerage holds a 50% interest, have been…

November 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

XTB woes spook UK FX and CFD shares: IG -3%, Plus500 -5%, LCG -9%

Shares of leading FCA regulated, publicly traded online brokers were under pressure on Monday, after word broke in the Polish press that Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, was under investigation in its home country for fraud. XTB shares…

November 13, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FX broker XTB.com suspected by Polish authorities of asymmetric slippage, shares collapse

Shares of Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, tumbled Monday by more than a third before being halted outright, after word broke in the Polish press that a lengthy regulator investigation had uncovered years of fraudulent treatment…

November 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Alpari closes trading on some of its instruments

Retail Forex broker Alpari Limited just informed that from the 20th of November, 2017, on all nano.mt4, standard.mt4, and standard.mt5 accounts, trading will only be available in “Close Only” mode on the following instruments: EURDKK, EURNOK, NZDSGD, USDCNH, USDMXN, USDNOK, USDPLN, USDSEK, USDZAR, EURSEK, EURSGD. Additionally, from the 20th of November, on all ecn.mt4, pro.ecn.mt4,…

November 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Tools for Brokers launches the Broker Business Intelligence module for MetaTrader 5

Tools for Brokers, a Forex technology company providing integrated solutions for brokerage businesses, announced the launched of its new Broker Business Intelligence solution for MetaTrader 5 brokers. The module visualizes trading information allowing to monitoring server events, make informed decisions and control risks, as well as helping brokers to prepare regulatory reports. Tools for Brokers'…

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Exclusive: Brendan Callan and Jimmy Hallac speak about GLBR Chapter 11 filing and FXCM

IC Markets launches Stock CFDs on MT5

Saxo Bank multi asset trading volumes down 4% in slow October to $328.5 billion

FXCM posts Q3 Revenues of $44.0 million down 11% QoQ, $4.2 million Operating Loss

Dukascopy goes live with Chained Binary Option contracts

Global Brokerage Inc files Chapter 11 and its shares trade down.... just 5%

XTB woes spook UK FX and CFD shares: IG -3%, Plus500 -5%, LCG -9%

FX broker XTB.com suspected by Polish authorities of asymmetric slippage, shares collapse

Alpari closes trading on some of its instruments

Tools for Brokers launches the Broker Business Intelligence module for MetaTrader 5

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