Category: Forex

May 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

PositivaFX hires easyMarkets forex veteran Dominic Poynter as Head of Marketing

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Limassol, Cyprus based institutional FX liquidity provider PositivaFX has hired Dominic Poynter as its new Head of Marketing. Dominic Poynter is joining PositivaFX after spending the past three years at retail forex broker easyMarkets as its Director of Marketing Operations, including overseeing that company's rebranding from easyForex to easyMarkets…

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May 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Invast Global adds FX pricing from Lucid Markets to its PurePrime prime services facility

Invast Global, the ASIC-regulated Australian-based arm of leading Japanese brokerage Invast Securities Co. Ltd. (TYO:8709), has announced that it has deepened the liquidity offering of its multi-asset prime services facility PurePrime by adding FX pricing from Lucid Markets. Lucid Markets is a unit of Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR), formerly FXCM Inc. Lucid established itself in 2009…

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May 02, 2017 BY admin

Nonbank FX market maker XTX Markets announces Eric Swanson as U.S. CEO

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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Dukascopy Bank launches Dukascoin
May 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Dukascopy 2H-2016 revenues lowest since 2014, FY2016 down 5%

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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GAIN Capital's Nicholas Scott to lead FXTM’s Product Development team
May 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXTM CEO Olga Rybalkina on sports sponsorships, forex regulatory changes, and lots more

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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May 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TriOptima adds margin valuation adjustment analytics for OTC derivatives to triCalculate XVA

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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