Tag: Forex leverage

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March 21, 2017 BY admin

Spain sets in motion stricter marketing of retail Forex and CFD accounts

Back on March 8th, LeapRate covered when Spain’s financial regulator CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores) issued its Activity Plan for 2017-2018... In that activity plan, the CNMV did not outline specific plans to target Forex and CFD trading, but it did state that one of its four strategic objectives will include “analysis of initiatives…

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March 16, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Is Leverage Evil?

The following article was written by Jens Chrzanowski, Regional German Director at FCA regulated broker Admiral Markets UK. Hello, If you’re an avid reader of LeapRate and other trading portal articles on a daily-basis (like me), you may have noticed that every week seems to bring news of yet another national regulator intent on introducing…

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March 08, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Will Spain be next to limit leverage on Forex and CFD trading?

Spain's financial regulator CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores) has issued its Activity Plan for 2017-2018. The plan has defined four strategic areas for the next two years, and 50 specific objectives for 2017. While the CNMV did not outline specific plans to target Forex and CFD trading (or Binary Options, for that matter), it…

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November 07, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Taking no chances: NFA lowers max leverage on GBP pairs to 20x

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that US financial regulatory body the National Futures Association (NFA) has issued a directive to all licensed forex brokers in the country, indicating that they must cut leverage and raise margin requirements on all GBP currency pairs. The new required minimum margin on both new trades and existing positions is…

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March 04, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Dukascopy to apply leverage restrictions to all HKD pairs

A follow-up to LeapRate's earlier report about Dukascopy cutting maximum leverage on USD/HKD... The Swiss Forex broker has just provided an update regarding the pending changes to trading conditions, specifying that the changes to maximum leverage levels will apply to all HKD pairs (not only to USD/HKD). This means that on top of USD/HKD, the leverage…

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December 08, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Can an STP/ECN broker really offer 500:1 leverage?

The following guest post is courtesy of Shobin Mathew Simon, Institutional Sales Associate at Advanced Markets. [divide] The ability to trade using leverage is one of the key advantages associated with “retail” forex trading. This unique factor tends to attract more investors to forex, rather than to equities or other financial instruments, as there is the perceived opportunity…

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November 27, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

OANDA Japan tightens margin requirements

OANDA Japan today announced a set of pending changes to margin requirements for dozens of currency trading instruments it offers to its clients. The new requirements come into effect on December 14, 2015 and are introduced in response to changes in market conditions and regulatory requirements. The broker refers to the events from January 15,…

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April 06, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Most Russians want banks to keep offering retail Forex trading

Russia's public opinion seems to support the Forex law but many think some of its provisions need changes, including leverage restrictions and the rule that prohibits from offering retail Forex trading. These are some of the findings of an online poll conducted by Bankir.Ru, Finarty.Ru and journal “Banks and Business World”, between March 16, 2015,…

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