Tag: binary options

January 09, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Banc de Binary gets CySEC license

First "pure play" Binary Options provider to get licensed in Cyprus. Quite a number of the Binary Options brokers which set up shop in Cyprus over the past two years were somewhat disappointed when the national financial regulator CySEC decided last year that Binaries were indeed a financial instrument -- making them subject to regulation,…

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November 21, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

Japan regulator instructs brokers to stop marketing Binary Options

Japan likely to regulate binaries beginning in the spring. LeapRate has learned that Japan's financial regulator JFSA has instructed regulated Japanese brokers to stop marketing binary option products to their customers, pending a regulatory review of the product by the JFSA. Binaries have become more popular in Japan the past two years, and the JFSA…

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October 16, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

MarketsPulse gets ISO-9001 Certification

Binary Options market heating up, as brokers look to add new products. Binary options, digital options and financial spreadbetting have been around for a long time. However most Forex brokerage firms have avoided offering such trading to their clients, as win-it-all-or-lose-it-all trading has been (correctly) viewed as closer to gambling than it is to trading…

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