The following article was written by Raphael Ribeaucourt, VP of Institutional FX at Advanced Markets LLC. 2018 was a challenging year for retail FX brokerages with many of them being sold over the counter and others struggling to implement the new rules mandated by regulators. What we can say is that 2018 was first and…
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Advanced Markets, an institutional foreign exchange liquidity and prime-of-prime service provider, has announced that it has signed Standard Chartered Bank as a foreign exchange prime broker. The addition will further extend the range of clients that can use prime brokerage to trade via Advanced Markets’ Direct Market Access (DMA/STP) liquidity infrastructure. Having Standard Chartered Bank…
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Advanced Markets, an institutional foreign exchange liquidity and prime-of-prime service provider, has just announced that it has launched Advanced Markets (UK) Limited (AM (UK)), an FCA-regulated company. The entity includes new trading servers in Equinix’s LD4 and LD5 data centers as well as a new London office headed by industry veteran Nina Baksh. The launch…
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The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. Our marketing team gets countless emails from retail traders requesting demo versions of our FIX API. Advanced Markets does not work directly with retail traders (the firm only deals with institutional clients), however, upon researching these requests…
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The following article was written by Richard Perona, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. Throughout my 18 years in the FX industry, AML (Anti-Money Laundering) / KYC (Know Your Client) training has been an annual requirement at the bank and broker level. Regulators have continually stressed the importance of AML /…
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The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. In a world of constantly evolving regulations, licensing and compliance is of paramount importance. Many traders and brokers read and hear about regulation everywhere, but even with all of this awareness, I still often times come across…
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The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. As with most businesses, the operation of a Retail FX Brokerage involves a lot of moving parts that must be synced together to create an efficient and viable business. These would include Legal (KYC, trading agreements, dispute…
Read moreThe following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. The global push for greater transparency in financial markets continues to gain traction with top tier regulators now requiring that all entities, engaged in trading financial markets, report their LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) number to regulatory repositories.…
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FAM Clearing, LLC., a joint venture between Advanced Markets Ltd, a wholesale provider of FX liquidity, technology, and credit solutions to banks and brokers and Fortex, Inc., a leading FX ECN trading platform, has announced the appointment of Raphael Ribeaucourt as a Vice President of Institutional Sales. Raphael joins FAM Clearing from PrimeXM where he spent eight…
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The following article was written by Bjorn Enqvist, Managing Director at Advanced Markets. I’m sure there aren’t many industry peers who have managed to escape the MIFID 2 avalanche this past year and, perhaps only the frenzy surrounding crypto currencies, ICO and Bitcoin comes close to the boiling hot MIFID 2 topic in 2017. For the…
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