Category: News

July 16, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

EBS launches lower cost Internet access version of EBS Spot Ai

EBS Internet Ai allows customers affordable access to the EBS forex market, without circuit fees or data center costs. Forex ECN EBS, a unit of futures broker ICAP, is introducing a lower cost version of its EBS Spot Ai, with EBS Ai protocols now available over the internet via EBS Internet Ai. The new EBS Internet…

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July 16, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Hotspot FX reports all time best forex volumes in June

Hotspot FX reports its first volume metrics as a newly private company, and they are impressive. Although it may not remain a private company (or rather, part of a private company) for long, Forex ECN Hotspot FX seems to be doing just fine outside the limelight of the public markets. Now owned by Getco, Knight…

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July 15, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

FXCM June volumes hold steady at $580 billion

Another record month for Retail forex volumes at FXCM. The good news from leading forex industry brokers just keep on coming.... Leading retail forex firm FXCM, the world's largest online global FX broker (and a member of LeapRate's Approved List of regulated FX brokerage firms), announced that June trading activity came in a total of…

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July 15, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

FXCM partners with CITIC Newedge Futures to penetrate China

China Forex market continues to be a focus for the world's leading Forex brokers. Breaking news.... Forex industry leader FXCM has announced a new partnership with CITIC Newegde Futures, a key player in the China Futures market, to to open a new gateway for FXCM's forex platform in China. The agreement includes the formation of an investor-oriented educational…

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July 15, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

ZoneOptions becomes the third CySEC regulated binary options broker

ZoneOptions joins Banc de Binary and OptionWeb as licensed binary options brokers. LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Binary Options broker ZoneOptions' parent company Rodeler Limited has received its CySEC CIF license, making ZoneOptions just the third binary broker to be formally regulated in Cyprus. The announcement should be made by CySEC in the coming…

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July 15, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

CLS has best ever month settling Forex trades in June

At $5.58 trillion per day in June, CLS volumes were up 15% over May. CLS, which operates the largest multicurrency cash settlement system, announced that in June it cleared $5.58 billion per day of matched forex instructions -- its best ever month and only the fifth time ever that volumes topped $5 trillion. CLS's figures indicate…

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July 12, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Leverate introduces low cost Forex platform for start-up brokers

Leverate's LXSuite Venture Edition comes with no set-up and no monthly fees. After about two years of slowing global forex industry trading volumes, bringing about forex industry consolidation and fewer forex company startups, the 2013 resurgence in Forex trading volumes has brought with it a major reversal -- and the re-emergence of many new Forex broker…

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July 11, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Alpari Russia forex volumes top $135 billion per month in Q2

Alpari does more than half of all its forex volumes in Russia and the CIS. Global forex broker Alpari Group has made an interesting (and only partial) disclosure of its first half and Q2 volumes. Alpari indicated that in Q2 volumes from Alpari Russia averaged $135.3 billion per month, and $131.4 billion for the full…

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July 11, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Swissquote adds trading in Chinese Yuan, Brazilian Real and Indian Rupee

With the Swiss National Bank keeping its 1.20 CHF per € cap, thereby killing CHF volatility, Swiss Forex brokers look to other products. Leading Swiss retail forex broker Swissquote, a member of LeapRate's Approved List of global regulated forex brokers, has added the Chinese Yuan (USDCNY), Brazilian Real (USDBRL) and Indian Rupee (USDINR) forex pairs to…

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