Tag: Anya Aratovskaya

The Archegos story - what FX brokers can learn from it?
June 02, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

The Archegos story - what FX brokers can learn from it?

Prime Brokerage Services include actual “physical”,or cash, financing (loans,for example) and “synthetic” financing (leveraged trading in FX terms). Qualified financial institutions (Hedge Funds, Prime of Primes, Family offices) borrow money from Prime Brokerages to place leveraged orders. The amount of leverage given is determined, exclusively, based on the client profile (background, trading style, capital etc).…

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March 07, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Are you fully prepared to start your own FX Brokerage?

The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets. Yesterday, I got an email from one of my old contacts thanking me for persuading him not to go into the retail FX brokerage business last year. The email was sent from the corporate domain of his new business venture,…

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FX liquidity providers
December 21, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

5 Reasons to switch your Liquidity Provider

This article is written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets. Traditionally, December is the month when the majority of FX professionals take some well-deserved time off. Fund Managers are avoiding any major market participation that could negatively impact annual return statistics; bank employees are trying to use up their remaining vacation…

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November 25, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

What is trading via FIX API, and what makes it so popular?

The following guest post is courtesy of Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional FX at Advanced Markets. [divide] FIX (Financial Information Exchange) API (application programming interface) is a highly scalable electronic communication protocol to facilitate the real-time exchange of information related to financial markets. It has become the de facto standard method of pre-trade, trade and…

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November 10, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

What's the right regulatory jurisdiction for a Forex Broker startup?

The following guest post is courtesy of Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional FX at Advanced Markets. —   The world of online Retail FX has become increasingly competitive and congested but, regardless, the industry remains extremely attractive to investors, insiders and entrepreneurs alike. One key factor adding to the attraction is the ease by which a person…

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