CySEC licensed Windsor Brokers, one of the longest tenured companies in the Retail FX space, has decided to undergo a radical makeover of its brand, logo and website, launching new versions of each as the company celebrated its 30th anniversary this week. As part of the marketing activities around the rebrand and launch, the company…
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Continuing its efforts to clean up the domestic Retail FX sector, Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has issued a circular this morning entitled "Provision of investment and ancillary services and/or performance of investment activities in a third country". See full text below. Effectively, CySEC is cracking down on its domestic licensed FX brokers which take on…
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After we reported last week that its institutional FX arm GTX had seen record trading volumes in January, FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has released its full metrics for the month indicating a very strong set of results for its Retail FX arm Forex.com. GAIN Capital's Retail FX volumes totaled $249 billion in January,…
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Online broker Saxo Bank has reported its client metrics for the month of January, which saw the Copenhagen-based company have its best month ever with total trading volumes of $495.8 billion. Saxo's multi-asset strategy paid off handsomely in January, with client trading activity in all of its segments - FX, Equities, Commodities and Fixed Income…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that Tamas Szabo (pictured above) has stepped onto the board of Pepperstone Limited, the FCA regulated subsidiary of leading Australia based Retail FX broker Pepperstone, as Pepperstone begins to expand its operations in the UK and Europe. As was exclusively reported by LeapRate, last October Pepperstone hired…
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CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has announced that the Financial Services Board (FSB) of South Africa has granted Plus500 a licence to operate as an Authorised Financial Service Provider in South Africa through a newly created subsidiary Plus500SA Pty Ltd. This follows our report last year February that the FSB had granted Plus500AU Pty Ltd., the…
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Continuing the spate of strong volume results shown by leading retail and institutional FX trading venues and brokers to start off the year, FXCM Group has reported its best client trading metrics since last January, with FX trading volumes coming in at $250 billion. FXCM's best month of 2017 was also January, at $253 billion,…
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FCA regulated Retail Forex, CFDs and Spread Betting broker London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG) has announced that at an LCG shareholder meeting held earlier today, the company's proposal to delist from the London Stock Exchange and move the company's share listing to the NEX Exchange Growth Market run by NEX Group PLC (LON:NXG) was approved. LCG's last day…
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Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has announced that it is withdrawing the CIF financial services license of Best Choice FBC Ltd. Best Choice FBC operates Retail FX broker BCFX Broker at bcfxbroker.com, and also owns a number of other FX properties including the Finish FinFX brand, which it acquired in 2015. CySEC first suspended BCFX's license…
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CySEC, Belize and South Africa licensed Retail FX broker Forextime, which also goes by the shortened moniker FXTM, has announced on a new website forextime.co.uk (full text below) that it has received a license from the FCA for a new UK-based subsidiary Forextime UK Limited. A check of the FCA's registry reveals that Forextime UK…
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