Retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) today reported its operating metrics for the month of May 2017. OTC Trading Volume at Gain's Forex.com Retail FX unit was up 19% from April's $185.0 billion, to $219.5 billion in May. Active OTC Accounts were slightly up to 135,070. ECN Volume made 63.2% YoY jump to…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned in conversations with senior management and others close to the situation that several big changes are cooking at leading CySEC and FCA regulated retail forex broker FxPro. We'd note, before outlining some of these changes below, that a number of rumors are being spread via email by someone who is…
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Retail forex broker Exness announced a new set of major improvements to its registration process for its international clients. Note that the changes have no impact on the registration processes of Exness (Cy) Ltd and Exness Europe Limited which are regulated and supervised by CySEC and the FCA respectively. The improvements are scheduled to be implemented…
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We believe that most of the headlines covering the just-announced Fiscal 2017 (March 31 year-end) results at London-based online trading firm CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX) will focus on the company's regulatory-mandated overview of the year, which saw activity across the board (Revenues, EBITDA, profits, trading activity...) down single-digit percent as compared to the previous year. However, digging…
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Retail forex broker FXCM Inc announced that has enhanced FXCM Plus, a client-only portal with free FXCM proprietary trading data and support tools. FXCM Plus now offers Trading Analytics 4. New features include: Tool Tips (Account Statistics) Daily Returns (Percentage Returns) Updated Analysis Text With FXCM Plus, clients can utilize free trading signals, technical analyzers,…
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The Russian licensed Forex dealer VTB24 Forex announced that now offers traders to perform trading operations via MetaTrader 5 VTB24 Forex LLC is a subsidiary of VTB24 rendering services to individuals in the Foreх market. Last September VTB 24 Forex became the fourth broker (and first licensee in the banking sector) to receive the license…
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USA Retail Forex Broker (the few which are left) assets just reported for April held steady with a total of $524,757,888 in customer funds. This is a slight 0.19% MoM increase from March's $523,750,637. With FXCM out of the market, selling its accounts to Gain Capital, the Gain Capital retail brand Forex.com remains the clear…
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First at LeapRate... After LeapRate was first to learn of and report that US regulator CFTC had filed a lawsuit in Utah against offshore retail forex Tallinex for illegally taking US clients, the CFTC today confirmed the report by issuing a formal statement on the matter. (We also explained in our original article why the…
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It took only 869 days. Nearly 29 months after the fateful Swiss Franc spike of January 15, 2015, Special administrator KPMG has announced that on Friday, June 2 they sent out notices to former Alpari UK clients, indicating that final distributions to account holders at the now-bankrupt Retail Forex broker have been made. The last…
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Hong Kong Forex retail forex broker KVB Kunlun Financial Group Ltd (HKG:8077) has announced that it has received a notice from the Tianjin Precious Metals Exchange Limited in China (TPME) to the effect that the TPME will adjust its precious metals spot trading business with a view to reduce the trading risks. As a result,…
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