Tag: Forex broker

August 08, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Wall Street banks beefing up forex operations

Forex is one of the few areas where big banks and Wall Street firms are hiring. Apparently growing forex volumes and great results posted in the forex trading sector in the first half of 2013 has not gone unnoticed by big banks. Reuters reports that Wall Street brokerage firms and global banks have been snapping up…

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July 26, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Swissquote forex volumes up 37% in Q2

Swissquote reports healthy Q2 profits at the corporate level as well, as clients and assets grew. Leading Swiss online brokerage Swissquote (a member of LeapRate's Approved List of global regulated Forex brokerage firms) announced today that FX volumes increased a whopping 37% during Q2, to average CHF 30.5 billion ($32 billion) per month, up from…

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July 22, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Saxo Bank's Team Saxo-Tinkoff wins Team title at the Tour de France

Team Saxo-Tinkoff riders Alberto Contador and Roman Kreuziger place fourth and fifth in the Individual Tour standings. In a much more lighthearted note than our usual Forex news items, we would like to congratulate our friends at Saxo Bank on their Team Saxo-Tinkoff's Team classification victory in the 2013 Tour de France completed yesterday. Team Saxo-Tinkoff…

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July 16, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Gain Capital (Forex.com) volumes down 4% in June

Gain Capital sees similar slowdown in both its retail and institutional businesses. Forex broker Gain Capital saw a slight slowdown in its clients' forex trading volumes during June, with retail volumes coming in at $155 billion and institutional volumes at $367 billion. Both figures were down 4% from Gain Capital's record May figures. To see…

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July 15, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

FXCM June volumes hold steady at $580 billion

Another record month for Retail forex volumes at FXCM. The good news from leading forex industry brokers just keep on coming.... Leading retail forex firm FXCM, the world's largest online global FX broker (and a member of LeapRate's Approved List of regulated FX brokerage firms), announced that June trading activity came in a total of…

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July 11, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Alpari Russia forex volumes top $135 billion per month in Q2

Alpari does more than half of all its forex volumes in Russia and the CIS. Global forex broker Alpari Group has made an interesting (and only partial) disclosure of its first half and Q2 volumes. Alpari indicated that in Q2 volumes from Alpari Russia averaged $135.3 billion per month, and $131.4 billion for the full…

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