FX prime brokers, J.P. Morgan and NatWest Markets announced earlier today that they are now providing access to Spotex’s institutional ECN. Both companies join as Spotex is expanding its presence in the institutional FX market segment with the firm’s introduction of new disclosed direct market access (DMA) liquidity pools as well as other initiatives to…
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Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has just released its volumes report for the month of August. August’s ADV reached a new record of USD43.247 billion, representing a MoM (Aug ’19 vs July ’19) increase of 19.23% and a YoY (Aug ’19 vs Aug ’18) increase of 52.46%. FXSpotStream set a new daily volume record of…
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Astana International Exchange (AIX) announced yesterday that it has added the Russian broker UNIVER Capital as a new trading member. Currently, AIX trading members include 17 Kazakhstani and 4 international brokers that serve investors in Russia, Europe and Asia. CEO of AIX, Tim Bennett, commented: Over the years of operating in the capital markets, UNIVER…
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South African broker QuickTrade just announced that they have launched Meta Trader 5 and have started offering JSE stock trading to their clients. As of today, desktop and web platform versions, as well as mobile apps for Android and iOS, are available to all the company's customers. The offering incorporates 190 trading symbols, including Forex…
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Forex broker Pepperstone announced that they have launched US share contracts with after-market trading, with no data fees, on their MetaTrader 5 platform. Traders can now take positions on Tesla, Alibaba, Apple, and more big names before market open. Pepperstone's unique US shares offering allows clients to trade in and out of positions after the…
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Admiral Markets announced that it has teamed up with Trading Central, Acuity and Dow Jones Newswires to provide clients with an advanced trading and investing analytics portal, powered by trusted, high-quality content. The Premium Analytics portal will be available for free for all Admiral Markets clients. The portal includes real-time news, professional market research, macroeconomic…
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Estonia based Retail FX brokerage group Admiral Markets informed its clients that it has added mini and micro lots for US Stock CFDs. As of 19 August, the company has reduced the minimum contract size and contract step across its US Stock CFDs offer. The minimum contract size and contract step of many US Stock…
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On April 13 2019 the FCA regulated online CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) announced that it is starting a Share Buyback Programme. The broker has already purchased a certain number of its ordinary shares of ILS 0.01 each through Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited. Details of the purchase can be seen below: Plus500 will hold…
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Estonia based Retail FX brokerage group Admiral Markets announced that it has added new instruments for trading on its flagship Admiral.MT5 accounts. The broker shared that no commissions and swaps are charged for opening long and short positions on futures derivatives. The trading instruments are available for traders on MetaTrader 5 accounts: _Arabica; _Robusta; _Copper;…
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UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has today released its annual report FY19. Highlights include: Revenue - £476.9m Operating profit - £192.9m Net own funds generated from operations - £159.7m Basic earnings per share - 43.1p Total dividend per share - 43.2p As LeapRate previously reported, even though IG’s expectations were that…
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