The economic impact and shock will be felt across the markets for some time. FX volatility will be present as an economic effect and ultimately manifest itself in fluctuating currency rates. There are a few regulatory frameworks that were launched in the last five years that anyone who want to establish an FX Fund in…
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Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. highlights ESMA's latest requirements in a special guest post exclusive to LeapRate. The inner workings of brokers have always been a mystery, a secret more closely guarded than the gates of hell it seems. That makes one wonder, why is it such a well-kept…
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The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. In a world of constantly evolving regulations, licensing and compliance is of paramount importance. Many traders and brokers read and hear about regulation everywhere, but even with all of this awareness, I still often times come across…
Read moreThe following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. The global push for greater transparency in financial markets continues to gain traction with top tier regulators now requiring that all entities, engaged in trading financial markets, report their LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) number to regulatory repositories.…
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The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. and Ron Finberg, Head of Business Development at Cappitech. MiFID II has been the focal point of many discussions in the European financial world recently. We have previously focused our attention on several of the main aspects…
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The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. Best execution policy under MiFID adopts a multi-faceted approach that addresses, amongst other things, quality of execution, trading conditions extended to clients and the counterparty selection process. It also provides directions and guidelines on how best execution can…
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The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. Welcome to a financial world, full of mysterious acronyms. LEI, CASS, ECP, EMIR, MiFIR, MTF, OTF… This industry just loves acronyms and MiFID II just gave us a whole lot of new ones to work with. One that…
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The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. MiFID II, the “Markets in Financial Instruments Directive”, is legislation that is set to be implemented across the European Union on January 3rd, 2018. As this due date approaches, many market participants are scrambling to implement changes to…
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Regulators around the world are stepping in to clean up retail FX, including addressing the over-leveraging.
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This article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets. Do you think 2017 will be another big year for prime of prime? If so, you’re in very good company. Our view is that, as the Chinese market matures, the 2017 trends in China could boil down to the following: Quality over…
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