FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has just reported its operating metrics for the month of December 2017, and the results for the final month of 2017 don't look so good - retail volumes are at their lowest level since 2013. However December is often a bad measure of overall activity, since it…
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UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) noted that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have today issued a letter to all providers and distributors of contracts for difference (CFD) products. IG informed that it welcomes the FCA's review on the provision and distribution of CFD products to clients on an advisory or discretionary…
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Swiss Forex brokerage house Dukascopy Bank SA just announced that it has extended the range of tradable CFDs on single stocks at Dukascopy Bank and Dukascopy Europe. Several hundred most liquid stock CFDs from US have been added to the platform. New CFD instruments can be added using the instrument selector in the trading platform.…
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Retail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC announced that it has just released free Forex tick data for the most popular currency pairs. Traders can import weekly tick data within seconds directly from FXCM servers to back-test algorithmic strategies, and create models with precision. With FXCM, traders have access to robust market data solutions, and advanced…
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FCA regulated Retail Forex, CFDs and Spread Betting broker London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG) has announced that it plans to hold a shareholder vote on delisting the company’s shares from trading on the London Stock Exchange AIM market on February 6. When LCG originally announced its plans to delist from the LSE in late December,…
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GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP) today announced the launch of Bitcoin trading in Australia and Singapore on the Company's City Index branded service, which is regulated by ASIC and MAS, respectively. GAIN Capital's Bitcoin offering enables its customers to trade the value of the cryptocurrency through a highly-regulated, trusted broker, without the need to…
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After seeing a healthy comeback in trading volumes during November, Retail FX broker FXCM Group has reported that December activity dipped by 22% to $171 billion - the company's slowest month since at least 2015. Average customer trading volume per day came in at $8.6 billion in December 2017, 13% lower than November 2017 (with…
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Closing out its best year ever which saw the company climb to become one of the largest Retail FX brokers, FCA and CySEC regulated Exness has reported that December Forex trading volumes came in at $256.6 billion - down 21% from November's record $324.4 billion, but still a good result for the normally slow end-of-year month.…
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Leading online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has issued its Trading Update for the end of 2017, indicating that the company will report a record quarter for Q4 in terms of Revenues. We would remind our readers that in Q3 Plus500 reported what we called a 'monster' quarter, with then-best-ever Revenues of $116.5 million, EBITDA of…
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LeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned that Ikon Finance Limited, the FCA regulated arm of the global Ikon Group, has named Simon Bird as its Non Executive Chairman. LeapRate had exclusively reported in November that Mr. Bird was making a comeback of sorts to the FX industry, as he was set to join the board of Ikon…
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