May 28, 2015 BY Mike Fox
BATS continues to reform Hotspot by tightening rules for market makers
New standards for market makers designed to provide enhanced transparency to the global electronic FX market
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May 14, 2015 BY Mike Fox
Hotspot cuts trading fees with “Hot List” pricing for more than 30 currency pairs
Hotspot, a leading institutional ECN for the Forex market, today announced plans to eliminate liquidity removal fees for customers in more than 30 currency pairs, beginning June 1st, 2015.
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April 27, 2015 BY Mike Fox
8 featured forex industry stories from April 20th – April 26th
A look back at some of the most intriguing and popular Forex industry news stories from the past week at LeapRate. To make sure that you receive timely access to all LeapRate news throughout the week, sign up to our Forex Industry Newsletter on the right… → 1. eToro | https://www.leaprate.com/6YO9T 2. FXCM institutional | https://www.leaprate.com/ZAwaN…
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April 21, 2015 BY Mike Fox
Hotspot ECN to offer commission free trading in gold and silver pairs in new promotion
Promotion effective starting 1st of May, will continue at least through year end
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March 30, 2015 BY Mike Fox
Forex Weekly Look Back: March 23rd – March 29th
A look back at the most intriguing and popular Forex industry news stories from the past week at LeapRate. To make sure that you receive timely access to all LeapRate news, sign up to our Daily Forex Industry Newsletter on the right… → ASIC/Leverage | https://www.leaprate.com/lV22K Optimal Payments/Skrill | https://www.leaprate.com/W91Dh FxStat | https://www.leaprate.com/MnR2Q AxiTrader/FIXI |…
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March 24, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod
BATS Global Markets establishing FX matching engine in London
Hotspot, which was acquired by BATS on 13th March, will continue to operate its matching engine in the New York area. The London matching engine will target Europe and Asia and specific FX currencies that dominate the European and Asian trading hours
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February 02, 2015 BY Mike Fox
Forex Weekly Look Back: Forex 'Black Thursday' claims more as details continue to emerge, binary option platform provider set to go public in London
A look back at the most intriguing and popular Forex industry news stories from the past week at LeapRate. To make sure that you receive timely access to all LeapRate articles sign up to our Daily Forex Industry Newsletter on the right. → ThinkForex/FCA | https://www.leaprate.com/Ykaoq Cyprus Forex brokers | https://www.leaprate.com/6sC6x IC Markets | https://www.leaprate.com/2v2iC Boston…
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January 19, 2015 BY Mike Fox
Forex Weekly Look Back: Swiss National Bank shakes up forex industry, IronFX CEO Interview, and KCG Hotspot finds a buyer?
A look back at the most intriguing and popular Forex industry news stories from the past week at LeapRate. To make sure that you receive timely access to all LeapRate articles… Sign up to our Daily Forex Industry Newsletter on the right. → Well, a simple weekly featured post review can not sum up the amount…
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October 30, 2014 BY Gerald Segal
Breaking Forex News - KCG looking to sell Hotspot FX
LeapRate Exclusive... We've speculated a number of times since Knight Capital's merger with Getco in mid 2013 to form KCG (e.g. see here), that KCG was likely to put Hotspot FX up for sale at some point to focus on its core equity market making businesses. And it seems as though we were right - KCG…
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October 17, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod
Ebola-driven market volatility leads to record FX trading volumes on several platforms
KCG Hotspot experienced an all time record in trading volume on October 15, along with many other prominent venues, amounting to $59 billion in daily revenue
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