In Forex Industry News this past week… How did Israel's Supreme Court rule on an appeal against the country's new Binary Options ban law? Where did IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) see the most growth on its way to record results in the first half of Fiscal 2018? What levels of trading volumes is social…
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In Forex Industry News this week... Which Binary Options platform provider in Israel had its offices raided by the FBI? Who was revealed as the $100 million investor in Retail FX broker IronFX? How did ESMA's updated proposals to regulate leveraged CFD trading differ from its initial statement last month? And, what did ESMA have…
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2017 was “absurdly good”, 2018 is shaping up no worse.
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As 2018 trading pulled into full swing with the new year's first complete week of activity, so did Forex Industry News. And, carrying over from last year, all the key stories appeared only at LeapRate including two key executive moves involving some of the world's leading FX brokers. Who's in and who's out after a…
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Solactive has just announced that the Equileap Global Gender Equality 100 Leaders Index has been added to the family of Solactive Equileap Gender Equality Indices. This new index mirrors the performance of 100 companies leading the field in terms of gender equality according to Equileap’s gender lens methodology. The index is accessible through UBS’s newly-issued…
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In the first week for Forex Industry News of 2018... Why did institutional FX player LMAX split its operations into two separate FCA regulated companies? What drove Plus500 to (yet another!) record quarter in Q4? What problems are FX brokers having in managing risk and liquidity from clients increasingly trading cryptos? And, what can be…
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Traders using at least two major online discount brokerage platforms are complaining of sporadic outages and expressing frustration that the latest glitch has tied their hands amidst a broad plunge in marijuana stocks, Financial Post reported earlier today. Clients of TD Bank’s WebBroker and Royal Bank’s RBC Direct Investing platforms have again taken to social…
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The dollar fell to its lowest in over three months on Tuesday, while surprisingly upbeat Chinese manufacturing data ensured there was no serious new year hangover for world shares despite a groggy start for Europe, Reuters reported earlier today. Sentiment was also helped by news that North Korea had offered an olive branch to South…
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Another day of record-breaking on Friday, the half-day session being the last trading day of 2017, with fresh highs for both the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 while the AIM All-Share Index traded around its highest level since 2008, London Stock Exchange (LSE) reported. The FTSE 100 index closed up 0.9%, or 64.89 points at…
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In what is a usually quiet pre-Christmas-break week, Forex Industry News at LeapRate was anything but. ESMA's surprise move to cut maximum leverage allowed in CFD trading shook the industry, eliciting a lot of industry reaction, and hit hard the shares of publicly traded brokers including IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS), and CMC Markets…
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