ICAP looks to regain its leading position in forex liquidity providing. Interdealer broker ICAP has announced that Laurent Paulhac will join the company as managing director and will be in charge of its US based ICAP SEF LLC. He is joining the firm from the CME Group where he was managing the over-the-counter (OTC) products and…
Read moreEither way, talk of an IPO should be very helpful to Pepperstone's business. On a personal note, those of you who know me may have also known me in my previous life as an IPO banker for Robertson Stephens and Bear Stearns, helping growing technology-based companies take that first important step. And there was one…
Read moreList of brokers offering Tradable forex trading apps continues to grow.... Australia-based IC Markets has become the latest retail forex broker to offer Tradable's trading apps to its clients. IC Markets currently offers both MetaTrader and the cTrader ECN platform. Tradable's list of clients now includes both Monex's (Monex Japan and Monex Indonesia), UK brokers Tradenext…
Read moreTradenext has adopted X Open Hub's front and back office technology under the proprietary name FlexStation. FSA-regulated and Indian-owned FX broker Tradenext has decided to add X Financial Solutions' X Open Hub web trader to its existing MT4 and Tradable app platforms. LeapRate readers will recall that Tradenext was the first broker to formally launch…
Read moreWith a Scottish independence referendum a year away, how would this complication be handled? UK spreadbetting and forex industry firms must be licking their chops at the prospect of Scotland launching its own currency, as Scotland nears its referendum on independence on September 18, 2014. UK retail trading clients rank among the highest worldwide in…
Read moreOne small step for NASDAQ, one giant leap for Russian technology companies. NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ:NDAQ) and Moscow Exchange have just signed a deal that brings smiles to the faces of the Russian tech community. A co-operation between the exchanges is exciting news for the Russian technology and biotech sectors. The aim of the agreement is…
Read moreLCH was without a CEO since LSE's takeover of the multi-asset clearing house back in May. Multi-national clearing house LCH.Clearnet has announced that Suneel Bakhshi has been appointed as its new CEO. Whilst the final confirmation is pending a regulatory approval the new chief executive officer is expected to join the company in early 2014.…
Read moreMarket for new and 'different' forex trading platforms is getting crowded. Cyprus based MT4 forex broker Windsor Brokers just announced that they are starting to offer to their clients a rather different methodology of trading, on the newly-introduced Gwazy platform. Judging from Gwazy's cartoonish logo at left, the platform is targeted as a 'fun' trading…
Read morePFSoft also announced the unveiling of Protrader.com – an online community for users of the Protrader platforms. Forex platform provides PFSoft has announced a major upgrade of its multi-asset trading platform called Protrader 3. As speed of quoting and execution is a great challenge for the industry, the new release has up to 3 times…
Read moreA quick note of thanks to all of our customers, friends and loyal readers... It has been less than three years since we launched LeapRate as a reliable and objective source of information and analysis for the online forex sector, and what we've achieved has certainly exceeded our expectations. We're now pleased to report that…
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