Marshall Gittler starts distributing his daily FX research via Claws & Horns service LeapRate

May 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Marshall Gittler starts distributing his daily FX research via Claws & Horns service

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that popular FX analyst Marshall Gittler has resurfaced, publishing his daily research independently via FX news, data and analytical services provider Claws & Horns. Claws & Horns provides a variety of third party services to retail FX brokers. Its clients have included HiwayFX and LiteForex (see screenshot below). The very…

May 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex broker XTB issues Q1 report confirming 38% Revenue drop, Belize CFDs acquisition

Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, has issued its full Q1 results report after earlier issuing a preliminary filing indicating that Q1 was a fairly slow one for the group. XTB continued its quite unusual pattern of up-and-down…

May 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Industry Week Review: Germany CFD rules, FXCM delisting, broker results, and lots more…

This past week of Forex Industry News seemed to have it all - regulatory changes, executive moves, social trading launches, lots of broker results, and a whole lot more. And as usual, only LeapRate brought you the key stories - the launch of social trading site Crowd Trading, Ayondo raising money, GKFX's former CEO landing at…

May 13, 2017 BY admin

Seabury Capital and Noble Bank partner for FX clearing distribution

Seabury Global Markets LLC, a subsidiary of Seabury Capital LLC and a provider of FX and precious metals liquidity management and trade execution solutions, announced today that the company has entered into a strategic partnership with Noble Bank International (Noble), a non-fractional reserve bank that enables clients to clear, net and settle OTC products in…

May 12, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

KCG releases steady April trade volumes

KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) today released trade volumes for the month of April 2017. In Market Making, KCG averaged $26.3 billion dollar volume traded (same number as in March), 11.1 billion shares traded, and 3.3 million trades per day in U.S. equities. In Global Execution Services: KCG Institutional Equities averaged 195.5 million U.S. equity…

May 12, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SFC and FCA sign Fintech cooperation agreement

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today entered into a cooperation agreement with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to foster collaboration in support of financial technology (Fintech) innovation. Under the agreement, the SFC and the FCA will cooperate on information sharing and referrals of innovative firms seeking to enter one another’s markets.…

May 12, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MetaQuotes adds MQL5.com economic calendar to MT5 trading platform

Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that a new service has been launched on MQL5.com - the economic calendar tool is intended to provide useful information about macroeconomic events. It is considered a major fundamental market analysis tool developed by MetaQuotes Software on the bases of real-time data collected from public sources. The current…

May 12, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TP ICAP strengthens balance sheet with £270m bulk annuity

Interdealer broker TP ICAP (LON:TCAP) has agreed a £270 million bulk annuity for its defined benefit pension scheme with Rothesay Life. Both TP ICAP and the Trustees of the Tullett Prebon Pension Scheme have moved to protect the retirement income of its members. A bulk annuity is an insurance policy through which a pension scheme…

May 11, 2017 BY admin

NEX Data creates FX margin ratios for the Financial Futures Association of Japan

NEX Data is working in conjunction with NEX Markets to produce new FX margin ratios that are core to meeting new Japanese regulatory requirements NEX Data, a NEX Group business which delivers independent market intelligence and price information for OTC data, announces today that it has been mandated by the Financial Futures Association of Japan…

May 11, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

HotForex activates South Africa FSB license, opens Johannesburg office

Global retail forex broker HotForex has announced the launch of a dedicated office in Johannesburg. HotForex is a unified brand name of the HF Markets Group, which includes HF Markets SA (PTY) Ltd, an authorized Financial Service Provider by the South Africa FSB. HotForex was granted the FSB license last summer. HotForex Managing Director Aristos…

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