New European broker FX88 has announced that it has added Spanish and Polish languages to its website, amid demands for trading in these regions. In line with its brand-new website, FX88 now provides trading information in three languages. Founded on knowledge, expertise and a passion for trading the markets, the FX88 team stated that it…
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Retail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC has just announced the expansion of their suite of API offerings with the launch of its REST API and Python Wrapper. FXCM now offers FREE access to four APIs that each directly connect to FXCM’s trading server. With the new FXCM REST API, users can easily integrate using popular…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that CySEC CIF license holder Harborx Ltd, which operated at harborx.com, has been acquired by a company called Ayers Alliance Financial Group Limited, with the CySEC licensed company now renamed from Harborx Ltd to the aforementioned Ayers Alliance Financial Group Limited. The company has launched a new site focused on asset…
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FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has issued a brief clarification to its Q4 and 2017 full year financial results, which were released last week. GAIN Capital, which operates the retail Forex.com and City Index brands and the institutional GTX business, stated that it wishes to clarify its prior statement regarding the impact…
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Further to their announcement back in September 2017 that they would work together to provide solutions to the Italian online trading market, Italian bank Banca Generali SpA (BIT:BGN) and Copenhagen based online trading giant Saxo Bank have announced that they have signed an agreement to offer a unique range of digital and global trading services. The companies…
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Good news, bad news. Or actually, the other way around. FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), which operates the retail Forex.com and City Index brands and the institutional GTX business, has reported its results for the fourth quarter of 2017, indicating a significant slowing of its business during Q4. That's the bad news.…
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LeapRate Exclusive... For the first time in a long time, Teddy Sagi is no longer the largest shareholder in Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC). LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that US investment management giant T. Rowe Price Group Inc (NASDAQ:TROW) has significantly increased its position in Playtech over the past week, from about 5% to just over 10.2%.…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that Retail FX brokerage group Exness has invested an additional £1.5 million (USD $2.1 million) of capital into its FCA regulated UK subsidiary Exness (UK) Limited. As we exclusively reported early last year, CySEC-licensed Exness made an application to the FCA to upgrade its "IFPRU 125K" license in…
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We had reported late last month that Saxo Bank had seen slowing activity and revenues in the second half of 2017 - something we believe every other FX industry blog missed, since the company didn't really break that out in its year-end report. However that seems to have quickly corrected itself in 2018, at least…
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Retail FX broker FXCM continued its strong start to 2018, reporting overall FX trading volumes of $239 billion. That ranks just 4% below January's $250 billion, but given that February had fewer trading days than January (20 versus 22), February's $12.0 billion average daily volume was actually 5% above January. Keeping in mind, that January…
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