New Zealand based retail forex broker Fullerton Markets has announced the hiring of ex-Bloomberg Strategist, Jimmy Zhu. Coming on board Fullerton Markets as Chief Strategist, Jimmy Zhu was at the aforementioned Bloomberg for the past three years, covering a wide range of topics which included Forex, sovereign bonds and economic data. He was previously an…
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XTX Markets today named Eric Swanson as Chief Executive Officer of XTX Markets (Americas) effective June, 1st 2017. Mr. Swanson is a securities industry veteran, most recently serving as the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Bats Global Markets, Inc. since 2008. Prior to joining Bats, Mr. Swanson served for more than a decade in…
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Swiss forex broker Dukascopy has published its Annual Report for 2016, which includes some fairly interesting insights into the company's business, and its results over the past few months. The STP broker reported that for the full year 2016 Revenues were down 5% from 2015, coming in at CHF 33.2 million (and with the USD…
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Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that has opened a representative office in Bulgaria. Metapenta Software Ltd will offer its services to regional brokers. The main tasks of MetaQuotes' office in Sofia are raising the offered services to a qualitatively new level as well as attracting brokers and financial organizations from the neighboring Balkan…
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Leading Australia-based retail forex broker Pepperstone has announced a series of margin / leverage changes for its trading clients, which will take effect later this week ahead of next Sunday's second round of voting to select a new President in France. According to Pepperstone, the election will be a major test for the European Union…
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LeapRate Exclusive Interview... It hasn't been easy running a Retail Forex brokerage lately. Regulatory changes, technology which is constantly changing, ever increasing competition... Continuing our series of discussions with various industry leaders, we are pleased to present our recent conversation with Olga Rybalkina, CEO of CySEC regulated FXTM. Olga has quite a lot to say…
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TriOptima, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which lowers costs and mitigates risk in OTC derivatives markets, announced today that it has added MVA (margin valuation adjustment) analytics to its triCalculate XVA (X-Value Adjustment) service. MVA calculations determine the lifetime costs of posting initial margin as part of the pricing of an OTC derivative. TriOptima is…
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LeapRate Exclusive... It looks like the folks at CySEC have been busy. And, despite CySEC's introduction late last year of more strict rules governing the operations of retail forex brokers - e.g. no bonuses, limited leverage, call center location... - the desire for brokers to become licensed in the EU via Cyprus remains in high…
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Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) announced that it has appointed Eric Bernstein as President of Broadridge Investment Management Solutions. Broadridge Investment Management Solutions supports more than 225 global hedge funds, asset managers, family offices, fund administrators and prime brokers. Its modular suite of investment management solutions combines portfolio management, order management, risk management, reference data…
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Forex ECN FastMatch is reporting that volumes in its system decreased slightly by 1% MoM in April, to average $19.0 billion ADV for the month. That makes April 2017 one of FastMatch’s best ever months for trading volumes, given that March's $19.2 billion ADV was by far the company’s best ever, well ahead of the…
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