It was a holiday shortened week of Forex Industry News, but not too short for a number of important issues and topics you read about only at LeapRate: Which Forex company is the latest recipient of a CySEC CIF license? Which leading broker had its best ever volumes month? Which European central bank took a large…
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The financial regulatory environment is changing as Forex broker technology provider T4B outlines here. The company has recently developed two new innovative plugins for MT4 in which brokers operating in France and Japan can now implement addressing limited risk measures and reporting solutions. In order to be compliant with new regulations, brokers need to implement…
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New York-headquartered EM4X, an emerging markets multi-asset and multi-currency trading platform has announced the establishment a new data center to provide FX market participants with improved local connections to its FX liquidity venues. The new London LD4 data center and matching engine will provide improved pricing, market access and enhanced workflow for foreign exchange market participants within…
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This article was written by Jameel Ahmad, VP of Corporate Development and Market Research at FXTM. Unless one candidate can garner more than 50% of the vote in the first round of elections, French voters will go to the polls twice to elect their new leader. The two candidates that score the most votes will go head…
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The Futures Industry Association (FIA) announced the launch of a new data product today. The FCM Tracker provides a series of data visualizations that give market participants powerful insights into the ecosystem of U.S. futures commission merchants (FCMs). The FCM Tracker uses data published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to visualize trends dating…
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LeapRate Exclusive Interview... LeapRate has learned that the latest recipient of a CySEC CIF license is a company called Capital Com SV Investments Ltd, which is set to launch its business using the Capital.com domain. The Capital.com CIF license was received and activated as of last week, April 7, 2017. So what is Capital.com? Where did…
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One of the top stock exchanges in the US could see its stock price increase by 25% over the next 12 months despite a first quarter slowdown in activity, Business Insider reported. That's according to UBS equity analyst John W. Forman, who said in a note to clients that Nasdaq could see its stock increase…
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On April 11, 2017, Shenzhen Securities Information Co., Ltd. (SSIC), Euronext and Beijing Sina Internet Information Service Co., Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop close cooperation on the application research on internet big data, the development of stock indexes and the innovation in cross-border index products based on their respective advantages. Principals…
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CySEC regulated retail forex and CFDs broker JFD Brokers has announced that it is now offering its clients reduced fee access to AgenaTrader, an award winning third-party trading platform renowned for enabling semi- and fully-automated trading. Like JFD, AgenaTrader was built by traders for traders - one of the reasons it is so popular. JFD…
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The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), which represents more than 200 market infrastructure providers including exchanges and CCPs, today published a set of cyber resilience standards designed to be used by WFE members, and other market infrastructure providers, to ensure alignment and common minimum standards across the global system. The standards cover eight key areas:…
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