Category: Forex

September 13, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Former ThinkMarkets GM Athol Nourse launches new broker Champion FX, plans ICO

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that former ThinkMarkets Australia General Manager Athol Nourse has gone live with his new Retail FX broker, called Champion FX (at champion-fx.com). Champion FX is being launched as a 50-50 joint venture between Mr. Nourse and Binary.com, a licensed binary options platform with its base in Malta and back office…

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September 13, 2017 BY admin

TradingScreen launches Forex specific EMS platform spin-off

TradingScreen, Inc. (TS) an industry provider of multi-asset electronic trading solutions recently launched BidFX, an Execution Management System (EMS) designed for the $5 trillion daily FX market. The platform matches the proven SaaS based technology from TradeSmart with the ability to connect to all liquidity provided by Banks, nonbanks, and ECNs. "In response to client feedback and…

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Tradair launches white label trading technology

September 13, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

TradAir rolls out enhanced Full-Amount execution logic, improving fill-ratios

Trading technology solutions provider TradAir has announced the roll out of enhanced Full-Amount execution logic, further improving upon its existing Full Amount execution performance. TradAir’s FX technology platform enables banks and brokers to intelligently aggregate the best relationship and anonymous liquidity from the industry’s top liquidity providers (LPs), including global and regional banks, leading non-banks and…

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Rakuten Golden State Warriors

September 12, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Rakuten inks $60 million shirt-patch sponsorship deal with the Golden State Warriors

This is clearly in a different league than some of the recent Forex Sports Sponsorships and brand ambassador-ships we’ve been reporting on the past while, which have become a very hot issue in the FX industry of late. Japanese online e-commerce giant Rakuten Group has inked a three-year, eight figure deal to become a shirt…

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saxo bank fx volumes

September 12, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Saxo Bank total multi-asset trading volumes up 4% in August to $348 billion, FX down 2%

Copenhagen based online brokerage provider Saxo Bank has reported a nice 4% increase in August trading volumes, at $348.4 billion, up from $336.4 billion in July. While Saxo Bank saw healthy double digit percent increases in its non-FX products of Fixed Income (up 14%), Commodities (31%) and Equities (12%) during August, its core FX trading volumes…

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FXCM FX trading volumes

September 12, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM posts healthy August Retail FX trading volumes at $223 billion

Retail forex broker FXCM, the operating unit of Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR), reported fairly healthy FX trading volumes for the month of August, in line with what we've seen from a number of other leading eFX providers. FXCM volumes were $223 billion in August, up 13% over July, making the month one of FXCM's best…

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MahiFX UK

September 12, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: MahiFX UK increases Revenues in 2017 to £1.6 million, plans UK Retail FX expansion

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that institutional FX services firm MahiFX (UK) Limited, the UK arm of New Zealand based FX brokerage and technology group MahiFX, has posted modest growth and profit for its 2017 fiscal year (ended March 31, 2017). And, that the company - which was originally founded as a Retail FX broker…

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Investoo FX affiliate

September 12, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Vincenzo Roselli leaves ETX Capital for Investoo, now a major FX, CFD and cryptocurrency affiliate

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that longtime ETX Capital executive Vincenzo Roselli has left the company, to join Investoo Group as a senior executive. Mr. Roselli is now in charge of growing Investoo's relationships with FX, CFD and cryptocurrency brokers. At ETX, which Mr. Roselli came to from the online gaming industry, he was responsible…

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LQD Markets bankruptcy

September 12, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

LQD Markets bankruptcy update: $2.7M repaid to clients, expected deficiency of $2.9M

Special administrator RSM Restructuring Advisory LLP (formerly known as Baker Tilly Restructuring and Recovery LLP) has filed an update on its work on the bankruptcy of retail forex broker LQD Markets. LQD Markets went belly-up in the wake of the January 2015 Swiss Franc spike – meaning that some former clients are still waiting for their…

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Gain Capital forex.com

September 12, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

GAIN Capital’s Forex.com retail FX trading volumes increase 16% in August to $238 billion

Continuing a very good month for some of the world's leading eFX providers, FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has reported a very nice month of August, with double digit percent increases in trading volumes in both its Forex.com retail forex unit as well as in institutional volumes. Forex.com saw one of its best…

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