Tag: Advanced Markets

Advanced Markets launches crypto CFDs
November 12, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FX DMA provider Advanced Markets adds Standard Chartered as Prime Broker

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 launches crypto CFDs
October 31, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Advanced Markets launches FCA regulated UK company and matching engine

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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Anya Aratovskaya Advanced Markets Fortex
October 17, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FIX API - How to get one

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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searching the FCA register
August 01, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

How to verify your UK FCA broker

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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June 13, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Traders’ Room and CRM for your FX Brokerage: 101

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…

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April 10, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

How to get an LEI number if you don’t have a LOU (Local Operating Unit) in your country

The 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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forex broker life
January 22, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Who are the real beneficiaries of MIFID 2?

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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Exclusive: Does getting more ticks improve your algorithmic trading performance?
December 06, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

MiFID 2: Are you a High Frequency Trader?

The following article was written by Richard Perona, VP of Institutional FX at Advanced Markets. As January 3, 2018 approaches, FX industry participants are busy reading through the new financial laws of “Markets in Financial Instruments Directive” (MiFID 2) in an attempt to understand how these will affect them going forward. Originally, MiFID was created…

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