Category: Brokers

ThinkMarkets expands Single Stock CFDs on Trade Interceptor platform
June 26, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ThinkMarkets launches live FX trading on its recently acquired Trade Interceptor app

Fintech mobile-app Trade Interceptor has announced the launch of live FX trading. The apps’ global user base will benefit from full front-to- back functionality of the app, right from account creation, charting and analysis to placing trades and funding & withdrawals. As was exclusively reported on LeapRate, FCA regulated retail forex and CFDs broker ThinkMarkets acquired…

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June 26, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Turkish broker GCM Forex launches MetaTrader 5

The MetaTrader 5 trading platform has further expanded its presence in Turkey. This time, forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes announced that Turkish forex broker GCM Forex started offering the multi-asset platform to their traders. As GCM, we are glad to announce that we have launched MetaTrader 5 in a trading environment with changing trends and…

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June 26, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Chinese online broker Everbright Photon chooses Horizon platform for commodities options

Everbright Photon, a subsidiary of the Chinese futures house (EverBright Futures) and part of a Fortune 500 Chinese financial business, announced that has chosen the Horizon Software as its core trading technology for the new commodity options markets, which went live in China in March (DCE) and April (ZCE) this year. Immediately after the 2016 China International…

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Pepperstone UK
June 23, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Pepperstone swaps Phil Horner for Mohammed Tayeb on Board ahead of UK FX relaunch

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Australia based retail forex broker Pepperstone has accepted the resignation of UK director Mohammed Tayeb, replacing him on the board of Pepperstone Limited with the company's Melbourne, Australia based CEO APAC, Phil Horner. The move comes as Pepperstone is scrambling to renew activity in its FCA regulated UK arm. LeapRate…

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Exness UK
June 23, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exness upgrades UK FX brokerage to 'IFPRU €730k' FCA license

Further to our earlier exclusive report that Cyprus-based retail forex broker Exness has made an application to the UK financial regulator FCA to increase the scope of its FCA-licensed arm, Exness Europe Limited (Exness UK), the company today announced that Exness UK has received approval from the FCA to upgrade its permissions to a full scope, "IFPRU…

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AxiTrader UK
June 23, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: AxiTrader hires London-based Paul Kiff from GKFX as its new Global Head of Trading

LeapRate Exclusive... Australian retail forex broker AxiTrader has taken an interesting step in becoming more of a global broker, while beefing up its FCA-regulated UK operation. LeapRate has learned that AxiTrader has hired industry veteran Paul Kiff to its London team as the new Global Head of Trading. That function will operate our of London, instead of…

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Z.com GMO Click UK
June 23, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: GMO Click UK retail FX unit Z.com Trade posts £1.8 million loss in Fiscal 2017

LeapRate Exclusive… Even for the largest global retail forex brokers, breaking into the coveted UK online trading market isn't easy. LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that GMO-Z.com Trade UK Limited, the FCA regulated brokerage arm of Japanese retail forex giant GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), posted a £1.8 million (USD $2.3 million) net loss for Fiscal 2017,…

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