FX Industry Week Review: Invest.com closes, Investing.com hires CEO, Forex broker fraud and blackmail, and lots more… LeapRate

April 15, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FX Industry Week Review: Invest.com closes, Investing.com hires CEO, Forex broker fraud and blackmail, and lots more…

The top headlines in this past week's Forex Industry News were an odd mix of old faces in new places, a regulated Retail FX broker shutting its doors, and charges of fraud, slippage and blackmail. Which binary options executive is the new CEO of Investing.com? Why did Invest.com renounce its CySEC license and end all…

April 12, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Invest.com parent GS Sharestocks renounces CySEC CIF license, closing CFD business

Yet another broker goes offshore. Or, is turning to crypto. Retail FX and CFD broker Invest.com has posted a notice on its site (see full text below) that its parent company GS Sharestocks Ltd has decided to renounce its CySEC CIF license, and has halted all regulated services as of earlier this week, April 9. As…

July 18, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

invest.com launches ethereum based platform Stox using the Bancor protocol

Bancor, the standard for creation of continuously liquid cryptocurrencies called “Smart Tokens”, just announced that the invest.com Group will use the Bancor protocol to launch Stox, a prediction market platform. Stox will deploy its smart token STX using the Bancor protocol to guarantee liquidity. Bancor raised $153 million last month through a Token Generation Event…

July 16, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Industry Week Review: Binary Options broker suspended, FX executive moves, and lots more…

Hardly a week of Forex Industry News goes by without word of significant regulator action in one place or another. Two weeks ago it was the FCA delaying its proposed CFD trading rules. Last week it was our exclusive report on Turkey banning foreign FX brokerage accounts. And this week did not disappoint as well,…

June 28, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Anyoption ceases Binary Options activity to focus on FX and CFDs

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that CySEC regulated binary options broker Anyoption is, well, on its way to no longer being a binary broker. Sources inform LeapRate that the company has apparently taken the strategic decision to abandon binary options, in favour of building out its offering of FX pair and CFD trading. The company…

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