January 18, 2018 BY AMarkets
January Forex Trade Ideas: A Time Absurdly Good
2017 was “absurdly good”, 2018 is shaping up no worse.
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January 14, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff
FX Industry Week Review: FBI investigates Binary Options fraud, MT4 sales stopped, Pepperstone exec leaves, and lots more…
As 2018 trading pulled into full swing with the new year's first complete week of activity, so did Forex Industry News. And, carrying over from last year, all the key stories appeared only at LeapRate including two key executive moves involving some of the world's leading FX brokers. Who's in and who's out after a…
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January 11, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova
Solactive and Equileap launch new Gender Equality Index
Solactive has just announced that the Equileap Global Gender Equality 100 Leaders Index has been added to the family of Solactive Equileap Gender Equality Indices. This new index mirrors the performance of 100 companies leading the field in terms of gender equality according to Equileap’s gender lens methodology. The index is accessible through UBS’s newly-issued…
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January 07, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff
FX Industry Week Review: LMAX splits in two, Plus500 record quarter, Managing Crypto risk, and lots more…
In the first week for Forex Industry News of 2018... Why did institutional FX player LMAX split its operations into two separate FCA regulated companies? What drove Plus500 to (yet another!) record quarter in Q4? What problems are FX brokers having in managing risk and liquidity from clients increasingly trading cryptos? And, what can be…
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January 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova
Canadian online broker downtime blamed on manic marijuana stock trading
Traders using at least two major online discount brokerage platforms are complaining of sporadic outages and expressing frustration that the latest glitch has tied their hands amidst a broad plunge in marijuana stocks, Financial Post reported earlier today. Clients of TD Bank’s WebBroker and Royal Bank’s RBC Direct Investing platforms have again taken to social…
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January 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova
Dollar starts 2018 low, good days for the euro
The dollar fell to its lowest in over three months on Tuesday, while surprisingly upbeat Chinese manufacturing data ensured there was no serious new year hangover for world shares despite a groggy start for Europe, Reuters reported earlier today. Sentiment was also helped by news that North Korea had offered an olive branch to South…
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January 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova
LSE 2017-end rally with new record highs
Another day of record-breaking on Friday, the half-day session being the last trading day of 2017, with fresh highs for both the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 while the AIM All-Share Index traded around its highest level since 2008, London Stock Exchange (LSE) reported. The FTSE 100 index closed up 0.9%, or 64.89 points at…
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December 24, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
FX Industry Week Review: CFD leverage, EU passport, ETX cuts Binary Options, Affiliate program changes, LegacyFX launch, and lots more…
In what is a usually quiet pre-Christmas-break week, Forex Industry News at LeapRate was anything but. ESMA's surprise move to cut maximum leverage allowed in CFD trading shook the industry, eliciting a lot of industry reaction, and hit hard the shares of publicly traded brokers including IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS), and CMC Markets…
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December 17, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
FX Industry Week Review: Blockchain based social trading, Betfred live with EU CFDs, Electroneum launch, and lots more…
Which platform provider and Far East broker are collaborating on a new Blockchain based social trading service? Where did online gaming giant Betfred launch EU-licensed CFD trading via its new TradeFred brand? Which FCA regulated broker raised leverage on major FX pairs trading to 200x? Answers to these questions and more appeared exclusively or first…
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December 10, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff
FX Industry Week Review: CySEC forex broker license, Formax Prime launch, FXDD-IronFX merger off, and lots more…
Which FX broker is the latest to get a CySEC CIF license? Which China-backed, FCA-licensed ECN broker launched in London? Why was the FXDD-IronFX merger called off? What major change did Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) make to its Affiliate program? Answers to these questions and more appeared exclusively or first at LeapRate this week. Some of our…
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