However Swissquote's eForex volumes were down, despite a rise in client assets. Leading Swiss online brokerage Swissquote (a member of LeapRate's Approved List of global Forex brokerage firms) announced today that FX volumes were down in Q1 to average $24 billion per month (CHF 22 billion), down 11% from Q4-2012 levels. This despite a 4% rise in clients' FX assets at…
Read moreAs the Yuan continues to strengthen, Chinese FX traders also come out to trade. LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned, in discussions with various retail FX brokerages, that trading volumes from China-based clients have soared this year by about 30% -- and even more at some firms which have been actively targeting the Chinese market. What's…
Read moreA nice month for EBS, after a slowdown in March. ICAP's Forex ECN unit EBS reported April FX trading volumes at $128.3 billion (average daily volume for the month), up 7% from March and up 17% from last year April. After two strong months to start the year, things slowed down at EBS in March,…
Read moreMetals volumes were strong, but FX volumes disappointed in April. CME Group, which runs the world's largest derivatives marketplace, announced April FX volumes which were surprisingly down by 16% from March. FX contract volumes (mainly Eurodollar futures contracts) traded at CME came in at 898,000 in April, down 16%% from March's 1,072,000 (see chart below). Metals…
Read moreGain's share price is down 20% since deciding to go it alone. Gain Capital (Forex.com) continues to see its share price plummet. Since Gain announced they would be buying GFT and rejected the takeover bid from FXCM, shareholders of Gain have seen their share price slide by 20%, back basically to where they sat when…
Read moreThe credibility boost Bitcoin has been looking for could be around the corner thanks to major e-tailers eBay and Amazon. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, eBay CEO John Donahoe stated that they are exploring ways to integrate Bitcoin into the PayPal payments network -- i.e. allow people to send and accept Bitcoin payments on…
Read moreJust GMO Click? Just Japan? Or were retail FX volume records broken worldwide? GMO Click, the largest Japanese retail FX broker, has just reported an absolutely astounding month of April. Volumes at GMO Click hit ¥89.5 trillion in April, or $913 billion for the month -- an all-time record not just for GMO Click, but for…
Read moreYen volatility continues to increase with record setting volume numbers. The Tokyo Financial exchange has reported that Total Click 365 FX trading volume jumped over 39% in April to 6,963,833 units. Year-to-date volume is up now up over 30% from last year. Numbers across the board for Yen trading pairs are up with the CHF/JPY…
Read moreOne of the first Pacific Rim FX brokerage firms to expand abroad. As a correction to our previous story regarding Monex Japan, it was actually Monex Indonesia, another (unrelated) mid-sized Forex brokerage firm, which received its CySEC 'CIF' license to begin Forex trading operations out of Cyprus. (Our apologies to our friends at the Monex…
Read moreGaitame's parent company Tradition sees some improvement this year, however, as volumes pick up. Earlier today, interdealer broker Compagnie Financière Tradition (or just "Tradition") released its 2012 Annual Report. Among the nuggets of information was a note that Gaitame, a mid-size retail FX broker in Japan in which Tradition holds a 49% stake, saw a…
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