Russia-based retail forex broker Alpari has announced that its FX trading volumes in May declined slightly from April, coming in at $89 billion. However May did see growth in volumes of currency pairs GBPUSD (+ 8%) and EURJPY (+ 19%), each of which saw a lot of volatility ahead of this month's Brexit vote. However overall volumes…
Read moreRetail forex broker Alpari has announced the release of the Alpari Options mobile application for smartphones using the iOS operating system. All of the strategies, instruments and timeframes which are in the web version of the terminal in myAlpari are available in the new application. The application works on all devices with iOS 8.0 and…
Read moreRussia’s Centre for Regulation in OTC Financial Instruments and Technologies (CRFIN), an FX body seeking to obtain official status as a Forex self-regulatory organization in Russia, has named Andrey Lisitsyn (pictured at left) as its new President. Lisitsyn graduated with a PhD in law from Russia's National Research University Higher School of Economics. He has worked for…
Read moreRetail forex broker Alpari has hired the Russia arm of international accounting and business advisory firm Baker Tilly to audit and verify information regarding Alpari’s PAMM Account service again. 323 new PAMM Accounts and their managers were studied in detail, all being included in Alpari's PAMM Account rating at the time of the audit. Baker…
Read moreForex brokerage house Alpari informed clients today regarding the launch of an offer in which the minimum deposit for ecn.mt5 accounts is being reduced to zero. For three months from May 23rd, 2016 clients will be able to try out live trading on the recently enhanced MT5 platform, which now includes hedging with minimal financial outlay. Before this offer, the minimum deposit…
Read moreLeapRate has learned that Russia based retail forex broker Alpari is terminating its program of paying interest on client deposits. Alpari has sent a note to clients, indicating that from May 1, 2016 it will cease its calculation and crediting of interest on deposits. The final calculations for interest to be credited will take place…
Read moreRetail FX broker Alpari Limited has earlier today published its operating metrics for March 2016, with the trading volumes staying virtually unchanged from February 2016 levels. A slight month-on-month change can be seen as a good result, given the steep drop in volumes that many FX companies reported for March 2016. Alpari's trading turnover amounted to…
Read moreRetail Forex broker Alpari Limited keeps streamlining its offering, with the latest changes to affect the lineup of account types available to its clients. Effective March 28, 2016, the broker will no longer support demo.nano.mt4 accounts. The broker will delete all open accounts of this type. The Alpari nano accounts for the MT4 platform have…
Read moreAbout 460,000 investors use the services of Forex brokers in Russia, with cumulative average trading volumes per month around $330 billion, according to the Interfax annual study of the Russian Forex market for 2015. The total size of deposits reached meager $0.5 billion. The amount of FX transactions fell 5% from 2014 levels, with the…
Read moreRetail Forex broker Alpari saw some recovery in trading volumes in February 2016, following a rather subdued January. The company reported trading turnover of $88.5 billion for February 2016, a reading which is 10.6% from the result of $80 billion registered in January 2016. Compared with February 2015 levels, the result for February 2016 is…
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