Japanese online trading company Monex Group Inc. (TYO:8698) has reported its monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in May 2017 and the results look promising this time. The number of Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs – the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) finally changed directions and went up 10% MoM…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that website Capital.com has gone live, after several months in testing mode. We had exclusively reported in mid April about the company's initial receipt of a CySEC CIF license (by parent company Capital Com SV Investments Ltd), in an interview with Capital.com CEO Kira Bondareva. Capital.com is clearly focusing on mobile trading,…
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Windows XP was released 16 years ago, on 25th of October, 2001. It is now considered to be an outdated operating system. Microsoft stopped supporting this system three years ago, because potential hardware capabilities could no longer be realized on Windows XP due to technical limitations. The lifecycle support for Windows 2003 and Windows Vista…
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PFSOFT, the global fintech developer of multi-asset brokerage and trading solutions, announced that has added a set of new functionalities to its Protrader front end desktop terminal. Among all changes within the new upgrade, the major one is expanding tools available for FOREX and CFDs with a sophisticated set of volume analysis indicators which PFSOFT…
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USA Retail Forex Broker (the few which are left) assets just reported for April held steady with a total of $524,757,888 in customer funds. This is a slight 0.19% MoM increase from March's $523,750,637. With FXCM out of the market, selling its accounts to Gain Capital, the Gain Capital retail brand Forex.com remains the clear…
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NEX Markets, a NEX Group business which provides electronic trading technology services in the fixed income and foreign exchange (FX) markets, announces today that Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, a mainstream bank as well as an integrated and regional financial group with roots firmly planted in Hong Kong for 100 years, will be joining…
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First at LeapRate... After LeapRate was first to learn of and report that US regulator CFTC had filed a lawsuit in Utah against offshore retail forex Tallinex for illegally taking US clients, the CFTC today confirmed the report by issuing a formal statement on the matter. (We also explained in our original article why the…
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Tallinn, Estonia based FX broker technology solutions provider AMTS Solutions and MT5 developer MetaQuotes have announced the release of the AMTS MetaTrader 5 Gateway, enabling the integration of the multi-asset trading platform with leading providers of global liquidity. AMTS ECN is a high-tech, multi-module, infinitely scalable system, which is resistant to high-frequency requests and provides outstanding characteristics along…
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Continuing the up and down month (but with very slight variations) we have seen in Forex trading volumes from leading eFX platforms, May spot FX volumes at NEX Markets came in at $81.3 billion ADV - up 7% over April. We recently reported that the EBS BrokerTec unit was renamed NEX Markets, effective immediately, following the parent…
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It took only 869 days. Nearly 29 months after the fateful Swiss Franc spike of January 15, 2015, Special administrator KPMG has announced that on Friday, June 2 they sent out notices to former Alpari UK clients, indicating that final distributions to account holders at the now-bankrupt Retail Forex broker have been made. The last…
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