Category: Brokers

eToro
August 26, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Crypto trading drives eToro's revenue rise

Yoni Assia, CEO, and Co-founder of eToro, commented: We continue to see strong positive momentum and our Q2 numbers demonstrate ongoing growth in new registered users and total commissions. In line with this, funded accounts grew by 158% year on year to 2 million as of 30 June 2021. Cryptoassets drove the company's commissions in…

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Charles Schwab
August 20, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Charles Schwab Announces 5% Employee Pay Increase

The company has seen a new high in the number of investors so far in 2021. As a result, the firm’s core net new assets climbed to a record of $257 billion in H1 2021, over twice the number gained during the same time last year. In addition, 4.8 million new brokerage accounts were opened…

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saxo bank revenues
August 20, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Saxo Bank saw record 159K new clients in H1

Kim Fournais, CEO and founder of Saxo Bank, said: As we look ahead, it is clear that we live in a world that is still seeing many uncertain and unprecedented experiments both financially, technologically, socially and health-wise. We are confident Saxo Bank is heading in the right strategic direction. We are building a prudent financial…

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Plus500 new share buyback program
August 18, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Plus500 repurchases 220 ordinary shares

Plus500 stated: The Company will hold the repurchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, the remaining number of ordinary shares in issue will be 101,331,310 (excluding treasury shares), and the company will hold 13,557,067 ordinary shares in treasury. Therefore, the total voting rights in Plus500 will be 101,331,310. The CFD trading platform…

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Saxo Markets Australia reduces prices on US and ASX equities
August 16, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Saxo Markets Australia reduces prices on US and ASX equities

Adam Smith, CEO of Saxo Capital Markets Australia commented: The retail investment market is booming locally – Saxo Markets Australia’s trading client base increased by 56% in 2020 and our new client base increased by 114%. Smith added: We’ve also seen a spike in investors looking to trade international stocks, given that markets like the…

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XTB obtains South Africa license
August 12, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

XTB obtains FSCA license in South Africa

XTB is authorized by regulators to operate in following countries including Poland, the United Kingdom, CyPrus, Spain and Belize. The new authorization follows the recently acquired license in Dubai. A lot of financial services companies have recently gained regulatory license in South Africa including Exness, ETX Capital, Eurotrader and Qinox Tech.

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August 10, 2021 BY Alan Sayer

StoneX Group Inc reports a 34% increase in quarterly profit

The figures for the first three quarters of the year are slightly different, although they still show an increase in profits for the company. Total revenue for 2020 was at $39.854 billion, with 2021 revenues decreasing by 23% to $30.687 billion.  Despite the fall in revenue, expense figures were improved over this period. StoneX decreased…

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