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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Hong Kong Forex retail forex broker KVB Kunlun Financial Group Ltd (HKG:8077) has announced that it has received a notice from the Tianjin Precious Metals Exchange Limited in China (TPME) to the effect that the TPME will adjust its precious metals spot trading business with a view to reduce the trading risks. As a result,…
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It was week involving a number of somewhat severe regulator moves in Forex Industry News at LeapRate. Both the Cypriot and Australian financial regulators suspended / revoked the licenses of Retail Forex brokers. And in the US, an offshore broker was sued for taking US clients, a big no-no in the business. In our continuing…
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Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announced that overall May 2017 average daily volume (ADV) reached 16.5 million contracts, up slightly from 16.3 million in April. Full exchange results by product can be found below: Interest rate volume averaged 8.9 million contracts per day in May 2017, up 20 percent from May 2016. …
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Shares of FCA regulated CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) traded up sharply on Friday morning, after the company announced a planned $10 million share buyback, strong cash levels, and healthy Revenues growth so far in Q2. First, Plus500 announced that trading activity during Q2 has continued on a positive trend as outlined in Plus500's first quarter…
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