CySEC, Belize and South Africa licensed Retail FX broker Forextime, which also goes by the shortened moniker FXTM, has announced the launch of a brand-new trading account - the MT5 Pro account. Some of the trading conditions on the MT5 Pro include: No commissions Flexible floating Leverage from 1:25 to 1:200 Spreads on EURUSD averaging…
Read moreAccessFintech, the financial technology firm led by industry entrepreneurs Roy Saadon and Steve Fazio, has just announced that JPMorgan Chase & Co. (J.P. Morgan) has become an investor in its series A round, leading the way for participation by additional market participants. The investment, financial terms of which were not disclosed, was made following an…
Read moreQuantitative Brokers (QB), an independent, global financial technology company providing advanced algorithms and data-driven analytics to clients in the Futures and US Cash Treasury markets, announced that it has partnered with CQG, a global provider of high-performance trading, market data, and advanced technical analysis tools. This partnership has been made to offer QB’s suite of…
Read moreInstitutional FX trading solutions provider Fortex Technologies Inc has announced that Victor Hendrix has joined the company to create and lead its newest division XCLOUD. A global cloud server grid, XCLOUD offers liquidity-agnostic and broker-neutral trading Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to support all trading platforms and all bridge middleware. XCLOUD offers premium hosting and…
Read moreThe Libertex trading platform has announced that it now provides its traders with an opportunity to open trading positions in two new instruments - CFDs on Spotify (SPOT) and Dropbox (DBX) stocks. The company stated that these new assets will appeal to those traders who are interested in opening up trading positions in promising technological…
Read moreCySEC licensed online brokerage and investment company RoboMarkets, which provides financial services to clients across Europe, has annoucned an update of its R Trader multi-asset trading platform. RoboMarkets has also updated its Strategy Builder, which allows traders to build and implement automated strategies with no knowledge of code or programming. In November 2017, RoboMarkets announced…
Read moreA war of words is brewing between Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), a former disgruntled client named Krzysztof Kramarczyk, Poland’s Financial Supervision Authority (Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego, or KNF), and Polish prosecutors with charges of asymmetric slippage, fraud, and blackmail being bandied about. X Trade Brokers operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Finsa Europe Ltd, which operates the Core Spreads financial spreadbetting and CFDs brand, has posted a net loss of £135,000 for 2017 (year ended November 30) versus a net profit of £147,000 in 2016. The loss came as Core Spreads grew Revenues from £8.0 million in 2016 to £11.4…
Read moreAfter a very strong start to the year including best-in-two-years volumes during February from its Retail FX units Forex.com and City Index, GAIN Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has reported somewhat of a slowdown in activity during March, but still a fairly good result concluding what was a healthy amount of activity overall during Q1. GAIN Capital…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that popular financial news site Investing.com has appointed Mickey Winitsky as its new CEO. Mickey Winitsky is replacing Itay Gissin, who was brought in by Investing.com founder Dror Efrat in 2014 to take over some of the key senior management responsibilities. Mr. Efrat remains active with the company. Mickey Winitsky is…
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