Category: Brokers

Monex Group
January 17, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Monex to introduce margin account services for US equities

To further meet customer needs, Monex recently announced its intention to begin offering US equity margin account services. The launch has been delayed due to system issues, however, the group noted that the service will be available next week. Monex stated: With US equity margin trading, investors can trade twice the amount of their original…

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January 17, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ISAM Capital Markets rebrands as iSAM Securities

The group’s structure will be unaffected by the rebrand, as Raj Sitlani remains as Managing Director of iSAM Securities and Jonathan Brewer as Commercial Director. The company also noted that the rebrand will not impact the company’s clients. Additionally, as part of the rebrand the company is launching new websites: securities.isam.com, prime.isam.com and risk.isam.com. Robinson…

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January 16, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FXOpen introduces commission free trading

FXOpen has been committed to expanding the ECN liquidity in order to provide the tight spreads for traders. Additionally, the broker recently announced its partnership with TradingView, giving their traders access to charting and social network trading platform. Gary Thomson, Chief Operating Officer of FXOpen UK, commented: FXOpen’s ongoing commitment to ensure trading is as…

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January 12, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Swissquote reports pre-tax profit of CHF 185 million

Pre-tax profit came at CHF 185 million in 2022. This represents a 17% drop from CHF 223 million in 2021. The company said: The diversified sources of revenues and a higher share of non-transaction based revenues have enabled Swissquote to navigate safely in a difficult market environment. Swissquote highlighted that some of the negative market…

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plus500 revenue
January 10, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Plus500 reports 2022 revenue of $832 million

In 2022, EBITDA of the London-listed broker grew to $454 million from $387.1 million. Additionally, the company’s balance sheet remained strong as the Group continued to hold no loans or debt. The cash balance reached more than $900, compared to $749.5 million at the end of December 2021. Plus500 stated: The Group delivered an excellent…

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Tradeweb
January 06, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Tradeweb sees ADV rise of 9.9% in 2022 to $1.13 trillion

Billy Hult, Tradeweb's new CEO, said: Despite a complex backdrop of inflation, rates volatility, geopolitical risk and a strong U.S. dollar, we saw an increase of nearly 10 percent in our average daily volumes year-over-year in 2022. While rates volumes reflected these headwinds in the early part of the fourth quarter, we finished the year…

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Interactive Brokers
January 04, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Interactive Brokers reports 21%YoY fall in DARTs in December

The broker ended the month with client credit balance of $95.2 billion, including $2.4 billion in insured bank deposit sweeps. The number came in 9% higher than in December 2021 and 1% lower the prior month. However, client accounts on the platform increased 25% YoY and 1% MoM to 2.09 million in December 2022. Interactive…

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FXSpotStream
January 04, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FXSpotStream sees $58 billion in December ADV

On yearly basis, however, last month’s ADV was 34.3% higher compared to December 2021. In December 2022, FXSpotStream’s overall volume stood at $1.27 trillion. The numbers were 14.2% down from the $1.48 trillion, recorded last November. The overall trading volume of the firm has surpassed $1 trillion for every month of 2022. The December ADV…

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