March 27, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
Your traders are on LinkedIn, Why isn’t your brokerage?
With the likelihood that your clients are already on LinkedIn, why (and how) should your brokerage also be?
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March 23, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
It’s not all about Brexit...
The following article was written by Jens Chrzanowski, Regional German Director at FCA regulated broker Admiral Markets UK. Hello! Word has it that British PM, Theresa May, will trigger Article 50 on 29 March, marking the official commencement of the UK’s negotiations to withdraw from the European Union. Her plan is to achieve a “Hard…
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March 23, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
Hawkish shift in BoE expectations wet traders’ appetite in the pound
Why did higher UK inflation trigger a pound rally?
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March 16, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
Is Leverage Evil?
The following article was written by Jens Chrzanowski, Regional German Director at FCA regulated broker Admiral Markets UK. Hello, If you’re an avid reader of LeapRate and other trading portal articles on a daily-basis (like me), you may have noticed that every week seems to bring news of yet another national regulator intent on introducing…
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March 16, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
How sustainable is the bullish reversal in the Euro-US dollar?
This article was written by Ipek Ozkardeskaya, Senior Market Analyst at FCA regulated broker London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG). The sweet combination of Dutch election and Federal Reserve’s (Fed) monetary policy meeting triggered a relief rally in the euro against the US dollar. The euro finally took a breather on Dutch election results. The…
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March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
Bank of England hiking mistrust, not rates
Mistrust a future issue for the BOE.
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March 13, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
Forex Week in Focus, March 13-17: Fed, BoE, BoJ & SNB meeting; Dutch elections; Merkel/Trump meeting; G20 meeting
The following article is based on research by Marshall Gittler, Head of Investment Research for FXPRIMUS. FXPRIMUS Indicators and events for the week beginning 13 March: Fed, BoE, BoJ & SNB meeting; Dutch elections; Merkel/Trump meeting; G20 meeting Usually the week after the nonfarm payrolls is relatively quiet, but this month we get no rest.…
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March 13, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
Why you should compensate your sales people based on customer satisfaction and not just sales
With regulators cracking down on compensating employees based on FTDs (first time deposits), how must forex brokers adapt? Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate, discusses. With the new regulations from Cysec, some of the rules of sales are going to have to be rewritten, and some old, successful (and maybe even lazy) habits are going to…
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March 09, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
Leading, Misleading or Cheerleading?
Brokers must lead their clients in the right direction, but must try hard not to ‘cheerlead’ too much, or mislead in the way they do so. It’s a fine art.
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March 07, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
Are you fully prepared to start your own FX Brokerage?
The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets. Yesterday, I got an email from one of my old contacts thanking me for persuading him not to go into the retail FX brokerage business last year. The email was sent from the corporate domain of his new business venture,…
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