...although Thomson Reuters retakes the #1 Forex ECN title back from ICAP EBS. Continuing the mixed-results FX volumes trend for March we've seen so far at the CME Group and at ICAP EBS, Thomson Reuters and its FXall unit each reported ho-hum FX volumes results in March. Thomson Reuters was actually down 4% from February…
Read moreDukascopy's JForex platform becoming more popular for smaller no-dealing-desk brokers. It seems as though Dukascopy is fast becoming a Forex ECN unto itself. After recently announcing white label deals for its JForex platform in Australia (Forex FS) and Turkey (Integral Menkul Değerler), now comes word that Dukascopy has signed a similar deal with Japan's AFT FX,…
Read moreLawsuit brought by former TRI employee claims insider survey leaks. An interesting lawsuit brought against Thomson Reuters by former employee Mark Rosenblum claims that the bimonthly Thomson Reuters / University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers had a "tiered" release, giving certain "ultra-low-latency" subscribers to the survey a brief trading advantage, based on receiving the information earlier. Rosenblum's…
Read moreHas EBS now lost its lead in the Forex ECN business to rivals Thomson Reuters and FXall? ICAP's Forex ECN unit EBS reported March FX trading volumes at $120.4 billion (average daily volume for the month), down 19% from February and down 2% from last year March. After two strong months to start the year, things slowed down at EBS in March.…
Read moreJapan's retail Forex brokers are having a hard time duplicating January and February's great start to the year. Monex Group, a mid-size Japanese retail FX broker, announced that March volumes came in at ¥126,613 million per day (about $30 billion in monthly volume), down about 28% from February's $41 billion in monthly volume. Still, one of…
Read moreMarch FX volumes at CME come in at 1.072M contracts per day, up 0.5% from 1.067M in February. CME Group, which runs the world's largest derivatives marketplace, surpassed a near-record February with a (slightly) even better March. FX contract volumes (mainly Eurodollar futures contracts) traded at CME hit 1,072,000 per day in March, up 0.5%…
Read moreCentral Bank of Cyprus has agreed to not haircut segregated bank accounts over €100,000, where the ultimate beneficiaries are small individual investors. LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Cyprus' financial regulator CySEC is working on behalf of licensed Cyprus investment firms, which include many FX and Binary brokers, to prevent the dreaded "haircut" on bank accounts…
Read moreGMO Click did $694 billion of spot FX volume in March, down 17% from record February volumes. FX volumes continued to be strong during March in Japan, as the global risk-on trade combined with local "Abe-nomics" to keep retail traders interested in the currency markets. However volumes were down somewhat from February. Japan's largest retail…
Read moreThe UK breaks the FSA into two parts – the FCA, and the PRA. The UK's Financial Services Act 2012 goes into effect today, (technically yesterday, April 1 2013, but it was the Easter Monday bank holiday in the UK), whereby the UK's financial regulator the FSA is being broken into two parts -- the FCA,…
Read moreSpotware Connect will help third-party app developers to easily build their own cTrader systems. The FX platform market is becoming increasingly about openness, and allowing third party developers to come out with best-of-breed add-ons, apps and applications for traders and brokers alike. Spotware Systems, which develops the leading FX ECN platforms cTrader and cAlgo (clients include…
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