Category: Forex

June 05, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

French PE firm Capzanine buys control of trading platform provider Horizon Software

Paris based private equity firm Capzanine has announced that it has invested in Horizon Software, becoming a majority shareholder alongside Horizon’s CEO, Sylvain Thieullent, and its management team, to support organic and global growth. From its inception in 1998, Horizon has worked with investment banks in the design of its first electronic trading platform. Today,…

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June 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX Group market volumes increase in May

NEX Group plc (LON:NXG), a financial technology company at the centre of global markets, has just announced its trading statement for the month of May 2018 and the results are finally good. Spot FX results were 21% up MoM. US Treasury’s numbers also rose with 15% MoM. The complete results can be seen in the…

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June 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group's volumes continue to go higher in May 2018

Back in the beginning of April, derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has reached an all-time high quarterly average daily volume (ADV) of 22.2 million contracts during first-quarter 2018, up 30% from first-quarter 2017. The numbers continue to increase, as today the company has announced it reached average daily volume (ADV) of 20.1 million contracts…

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June 03, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: FOREX.com Head of Research James Chen jumps to Investopedia

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that popular FX research analyst and longtime Head of Research at FOREX.com, James Chen, has moved to Investopedia.com. Mr. Chen will become Investopedia's Director of Trading & Investing, taking a major role in the direction of the website's research and education products. James Chen has been Head of Research at…

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IC Markets adds over new stock and crypto CFDs
June 03, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

IC Markets reports May FX trading volumes at record $447 billion

Continuing what has been a parade of stellar volume reports for May 2018 from some of the leading Retail and Institutional FX trading platforms, Australia based ASIC licensed IC Markets has reported that it has joined the "400 Club", with May volumes coming in at a record USD $447 billion. May’s average daily volume record of…

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June 01, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream sets total monthly FX volumes record in May at $645 billion

After reporting record trading volumes throughout Q1, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that May volumes totaled $645.4 billion, a record for the company. Average daily volumes of $28.1 billion were slightly off FXSpotStream's record in that regard, $28.8 billion set in February 2018 (but as February had 3 fewer trading days, total volumes in…

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