Category: Forex

April 10, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Fortex hires Victor Hendrix from Beeks Financial Cloud as EVP Global Infrastructure Sales

Institutional FX trading solutions provider Fortex Technologies Inc has announced that Victor Hendrix has joined the company to create and lead its newest division XCLOUD. A global cloud server grid, XCLOUD offers liquidity-agnostic and broker-neutral trading Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to support all trading platforms and all bridge middleware. XCLOUD offers premium hosting and…

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April 09, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Libertex adds CFDs on Spotify and Dropbox shares

The Libertex trading platform has announced that it now provides its traders with an opportunity to open trading positions in two new instruments - CFDs on Spotify (SPOT) and Dropbox (DBX) stocks. The company stated that these new assets will appeal to those traders who are interested in opening up trading positions in promising technological…

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April 09, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

RoboMarkets updates its R Trader Platform and auto trading Strategy Builder

CySEC licensed online brokerage and investment company RoboMarkets, which provides financial services to clients across Europe, has annoucned an update of its R Trader multi-asset trading platform. RoboMarkets has also updated its Strategy Builder, which allows traders to build and implement automated strategies with no knowledge of code or programming. In November 2017, RoboMarkets announced…

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April 09, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Polish forex broker XTB claims blackmail, ex-client claims fraud, KNF investigates

A war of words is brewing between Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), a former disgruntled client named Krzysztof Kramarczyk, Poland’s Financial Supervision Authority (Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego, or KNF), and Polish prosecutors with charges of asymmetric slippage, fraud, and blackmail being bandied about. X Trade Brokers operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub…

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April 09, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Binary Options exec Mickey Winitsky replaces Itay Gissin as CEO of Investing.com

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that popular financial news site Investing.com has appointed Mickey Winitsky as its new CEO. Mickey Winitsky is replacing Itay Gissin, who was brought in by Investing.com founder Dror Efrat in 2014 to take over some of the key senior management responsibilities. Mr. Efrat remains active with the company. Mickey Winitsky is…

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April 06, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Stater Global Markets expands FX liquidity with Cboe FX and FastMatch

London-based Prime of Prime brokerage Stater Global Markets has announced that it has extended the choice of trading venues on offer to its institutional clients, with the addition of Cboe FX and FastMatch. This latest development from the London-headquartered Prime of Prime brokerage gives clients more options to access large pools of diversified liquidity. Ramy…

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April 05, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Bitcoin margin trading site Stocksbtc.com claiming fake Malta MFSA license

Malta's financial regulator The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has announced that it has become aware of an entity operating under the name “Stocksbtc”, which is known to have an internet presence at stocksbtc.com and which, according to information available to the MFSA, appears to be offering investment and/or other financial services to consumers. Stocksbtc…

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April 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe Global Markets appoints Executive Vice Presidents in newly formed Markets Division

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has announced the appointments of Andy Lowenthal and Bryan Harkins as Executive Vice Presidents and co-heads of the firm’s newly formed Markets Division. The new Markets Division unifies product, sales, business development and account coverage personnel across the company’s U.S. equities and options, ETP listings, global derivatives and FX…

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