Paul Thomas joins FlexTrade as Vice President, FX Business Development in U.S. LeapRate

February 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Paul Thomas joins FlexTrade as Vice President, FX Business Development in U.S.

Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade today announced the appointment of Paul Thomas as Vice President, FX Business Development for both the buy-side and sell-side markets in the Americas. With the FX buy-side community looking to increase its aggregation and trading execution, FlexTrade is perfectly positioned to help them achieve these goals,” said…

February 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

IS Prime hires Tickstarter COO Daniel Crane as Deputy Head of Electronic Trading Solutions

IS Prime, part of ISAM Capital Markets, just announced that it has appointed Daniel Crane, former Tickstarter COO, as Deputy Head of Electronic Trading Solutions (ETS). In this newly created role, Daniel Crane will report directly to IS Prime’s Head of ETS, Barry Flanigan. His remit includes a specific focus on advanced technical client integrations.…

February 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX Regulatory Reporting partners with Delta Capita to provide SFTR advice to clients

NEX Regulatory Reporting announced today that it has partnered with Delta Capita, an international business and technology consulting provider, who will offer specialist advice to clients ahead of the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) coming into effect. Delta Capita’s Securities Finance and Collateral Management Practice has successfully helped tier-one banks and large buy-side clients with…

February 07, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

IG's #ReplytoESMA survey shows 98% of respondents disagree with CFD leverage proposals

UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) revealed results of its #ReplytoESMA website survey, indicating a very strong anti-ESMA stance among the more than 14,000 replies. As we reported earlier this week, ESMA has come under a lot of pressure to alter its plans to enforce a maximum leverage cap of 30x for…

February 07, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Saxo Bank volumes approach $500 billion in record January for FX trading

Online broker Saxo Bank has reported its client metrics for the month of January, which saw the Copenhagen-based company have its best month ever with total trading volumes of $495.8 billion. Saxo's multi-asset strategy paid off handsomely in January, with client trading activity in all of its segments - FX, Equities, Commodities and Fixed Income…

February 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

EEX cooperates with Saxo Bank and PZEM Energy to expand access to German Power Futures

Saxo Bank will offer Contracts for Difference (CFDs) on EEX German Power Futures as of 1st March 2018 The European Energy Exchange (EEX), Saxo Bank and PZEM Energy have today announced a partnership to offer German Power CFDs (Contracts for Differences) on Saxo’s fully integrated trading and risk management platform, SaxoTraderGO. Saxo’s new German Power…

February 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Digital Currency Exchange Independent Reserve adds two new executives

Independent Reserve, the Australian Digital Currency exchange, has announced that has added two executives to its senior management team as the company turns its attention to its growing stable of institutional and SMSF clients. Roman Stefanidi joined Independent Reserve as Chief Technology Officer in August, and Lasanka Perera as Head of Strategy in October. CEO…

February 07, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Tamas Szabo joins as director at Pepperstone UK

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that Tamas Szabo (pictured above) has stepped onto the board of Pepperstone Limited, the FCA regulated subsidiary of leading Australia based Retail FX broker Pepperstone, as Pepperstone begins to expand its operations in the UK and Europe. As was exclusively reported by LeapRate, last October Pepperstone hired…

February 07, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Plus500 upgrades South Africa FSB license, sets new subsidiary Plus500SA Pty Ltd

CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has announced that the Financial Services Board (FSB) of South Africa has granted Plus500 a licence to operate as an Authorised Financial Service Provider in South Africa through a newly created subsidiary Plus500SA Pty Ltd. This follows our report last year February that the FSB had granted Plus500AU Pty Ltd., the…

February 07, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM has best month in a year, January 2018 FX volumes at $250 billion

Continuing the spate of strong volume results shown by leading retail and institutional FX trading venues and brokers to start off the year, FXCM Group has reported its best client trading metrics since last January, with FX trading volumes coming in at $250 billion. FXCM's best month of 2017 was also January, at $253 billion,…

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