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FX liquidity providers
September 13, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

MiFID II - How Many Liquidity Providers Should a Broker Have?

The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. Best execution policy under MiFID adopts a multi-faceted approach that addresses, amongst other things, quality of execution, trading conditions extended to clients and the counterparty selection process. It also provides directions and guidelines on how best execution can…

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LEI number
August 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

What is an LEI number and where can you get one?

The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. Welcome to a financial world, full of mysterious acronyms. LEI, CASS, ECP, EMIR, MiFIR, MTF, OTF… This industry just loves acronyms and MiFID II just gave us a whole lot of new ones to work with. One that…

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July 19, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

MIFiD II: Will you finally know who is on the other side of your trade?

The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. MiFID II, the “Markets in Financial Instruments Directive”, is legislation that is set to be implemented across the European Union on January 3rd, 2018. As this due date approaches, many market participants are scrambling to implement changes to…

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March 28, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Fortex and Advanced Markets add ex CFH executives for Japan FX Prime-of-Prime unit FAM Clearing

FAM Clearing, LLC, a joint venture between Fortex, Inc., a leading FX ECN trading platform, and Advanced Markets, a wholesale provider of liquidity, technology, and credit solutions to banks and brokers, announced today the two new executive appointments. Satomi Toyoshima has been appointed as a Managing Director of Japan Operations for FAM Clearing. Mrs. Toyoshima brings…

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January 25, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

What is Forex VPS?

This article is written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Fortex Inc. Trading via a VPS has become very popular in the retail FX community over the last several years. This article aims to provide a summary of the product and its most common uses, as well as to give a general overview…

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