Tag: FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM)

September 18, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Industry Week Review: FXCM moves to NASDAQ, FxPro's new logo, TechFinancials record results, and lots more…

Lots of changes afoot in LeapRate's Forex Industry News this past week. Logo changes, stock listing changes... Our most popular guest posts this week were: How to interpret the probability of a Fed rate hike? courtesy of LCG Senior Market Analyst Ipek Ozkardeskaya The flaws in social trading, by Leverate's Yael Warman Some of our most popular, shared…

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September 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM moving its shares from NYSE to NASDAQ

Retail forex broker FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) has announced that it is transferring its stock exchange listing to The NASDAQ Global Market. Since going public in 2010, FXCM shares have traded on the 'big board' New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). FXCM rival Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) also trades on the NYSE. The last day of trading on the…

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September 12, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM Retail Forex volumes down 4% MoM in August, Institutional off 37%

Retail forex broker FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) released August FX trading volume data, and they have come in fairly in-line with the industry wide late-summer slowdown we have seen at most of the leading Retail and Institutional eFX platforms. Retail forex volumes at FXCM came totaled $270 billion in August, down 4% MoM and 18% YoY, while Institutional…

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September 01, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Leucadia takes a direct interest in FXCM Inc operating units as loan deal reworked

Retail forex broker FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) and investment company Leucadia National Corp (NYSE:LUK) have announced a renegotiation of their loan and 'letter' agreements, which will see Leucadia take a direct 49.9% interest in FXCM's operating companies. FXCM will retain the other 50.1%. The other major changes to the original deal (which was renegotiated once already, to…

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September 01, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM Pro added as new institutional liquidity provider for MetaTrader 5

MetaQuotes Software, developer of the popular MT4 and MT5 trading platform, has announced that its MetaTrader 5 trading platform has been integrated with FXCM Pro, the institutional Forex and CFD liquidity provider division of FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM). Brokers, institutional investors and professional traders using MT5 can now benefit from trade execution on Forex and CFD markets…

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September 01, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FastMatch FX volumes drop 20% in August to $10.3 billion ADV

Beginning what we believe will be a series of fairly slow August trading volume reports by both retail and institutional Forex platforms, Forex ECN FastMatch is reporting that volumes in its system fell 20% MoM from July, to average $10.3 billion ADV for the month - August being its slowest month so far in 2016. We'd remind LeapRate…

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August 19, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM statement: CFTC action 'unfortunate and disappointing'

As we said they would, retail forex broker FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) has issued a formal statement in reply to yesterday's news that the CFTC was now charging FXCM with undercapitalization related to the 2015 Swiss Franc spike - more than a year and a half after the event, and after the issue had been rectified. And, as…

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