Category: Brokers

Interactive Brokers
May 02, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Interactive Brokers sees 20% YoY drop in DARTS in April

The broker ended the month with client credit balance of $99.2 billion, including $2.4 billion in insured bank deposit sweeps. The client credit balance came in 9% higher than in April 2022 and 3% more than the prior month. However, client accounts on the platform increased 20% YoY and 1% MoM to 2.22 million in…

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Dukascopy bank
April 28, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Dukascopy ends 2022 with a 200% jump in profit

Additionally, the Group revealed that its consolidated subsidiaries, including Dukascopy Japan and Dukascopy Europe, were also profitable in 2022. Veronika and Andrey Duka co-Chief Executive Officers, said: Despite all complexities and challenges of the financial year 2022, the Bank's profit is 200% higher than the profit for 2021. All of the Bank's subsidiar ies were…

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Tradeweb
April 27, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Tradeweb plans to acquire electronic trading platform Yieldbroker

The official announcement detailed that the deal will leverage both firms’ trading solutions and industry experience to create more liquid, transparent and efficient fixed income markets. Through the acquisition, Yieldbroker will gain access to domestic client network, including superannuation funds, as well as Tradeweb’s global multi-asset platform, liquidity and technology. The companies also believe that…

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April 21, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

GCEX reports £4.5 million in turnover in 2022

Over the last year, the London-headquartered Group, continued to grow its team and expanded its global footprint in Dubai. Furthermore, GCEX launched XplorDigital trading solutions, introduced 24/7 FX trading, and continued the expansion of its product offering. Additionally, GCEX offers more than 40 crypto products to its institutional and professional clients, available as spot or…

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Spectrum Markets
April 20, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Spectrum Markets order book turnover surpasses €1 billion in Q1

Nicky Maan, Spectrum Markets CEO, said: We’ve had a very successful start to 2023, achieving another strong quarter of growth, and building on the foundations of our robust and innovative pan-European trading ecosystem to further enhance connectivity and expand our partner network. According to the numbers, the total value of order book turnover exceeded €1 billion…

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April 20, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ThinkMarkets expands to New Zealand with a new business arm

ThinkMarkets further highlighted that the new entity is regulated by the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA). The company’s clients in the region can trader more than 4,000 financial instruments on the ThinkTrader platform, which is available on mobile, web and desktop. Nauman Anees, CEO and co-founder of ThinkMarkets, commented: We are delighted to expand…

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plus500 revenue
April 19, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Plus500’s Q1 revenue jumps 64% QoQ

The Israeli-based broker reported EBITDA of $100.9 million for the period, registering a 116% million from Q4’s $46.7 million. Compared to the first quarter of last year, however, the figure dropped 37.6%. Customer activity During the first quarter of 2023, the London-listed company onboarded 28,201 new customers. This 16.4% lower than the 33,740 accounts added…

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Interactive Brokers
April 19, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Interactive Brokers sees 64% increase in revenue in Q1

Revenue generated from commission was only 2% higher, reaching $357 million. The revenue earned from commissions rose only by 2% and amounted to $357 million. This was due to a surge in contract volumes in futures, coupled with higher average trade sizes in both options and futures. However, the increase was offset by reduced trading…

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