Tag: Japan Forex brokers

Gaitame Japan forex website
October 27, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Gaitame.com Japan retail FX revenues down 20% in Q3, parent Tradition up 2.5%

Swiss interdealer broker Compagnie Financière Tradition SA (SWX:CFT) has reported preliminary summary results for Q3 2017, indicating continued weakness in its Japan Retail FX business, Gaitame.com. Overall, in the third quarter, consolidated revenue at Tradition was CHF 189.4 million (USD $190 million), compared with CHF 187.5 million in the same period in 2016, representing an…

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Z.com GMO Click UK
June 23, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: GMO Click UK retail FX unit Z.com Trade posts £1.8 million loss in Fiscal 2017

LeapRate Exclusive… Even for the largest global retail forex brokers, breaking into the coveted UK online trading market isn't easy. LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that GMO-Z.com Trade UK Limited, the FCA regulated brokerage arm of Japanese retail forex giant GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), posted a £1.8 million (USD $2.3 million) net loss for Fiscal 2017,…

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Hirose UK regulated binary options
June 21, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Hirose UK revenues drop 47% as Binary Options bet fails

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that Hirose Financial UK Ltd., the FCA regulated arm of Japanese retail forex brokerage group Hirose Tusyo Inc (TYO:7185), saw its Revenues tumble by 47% in Fiscal 2017 (year ended March 31, 2017) to just £496,000, down from £928,000 last year. Hirose UK also reported a net loss…

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March 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Monex Group FX volumes down 21% in February to ¥156 billion ADV

Japanese online trading company Monex Group Inc. (TYO:8698) has reported its monthly business metrics for the month of February 2017, indicating a general decrease in activity from January. Overall at Monex, the number of Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs – the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) was 262,809 in February –…

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October 18, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Hirose UK doubles Revenues in fiscal 2016

LeapRate has learned via filings made with UK regulatory authorities that Hirose Financial UK Ltd., the FCA regulated arm of Japanese retail forex brokerage group Hirose Tusyo Inc (TYO:7185), saw a doubling of its revenues in fiscal 2016. For the year ended March 31, 2016, Revenues at Hirose UK came in at £928,000, up 126% from…

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September 05, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Monex Group OTC FX volumes plummet 37% MoM in August

Japanese forex broker Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698) has just published its key operating metrics for August 2016 and its Global daily average revenue trades (DARTs) were down 16% from July levels, coming in at 231,108. DARTs for Monex's TradeStation Group were down 6% MoM to 91,241. The greatest trading decline at Monex during August was in its OTC FX…

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January 19, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Monex Group reports just ¥160M (USD $1.4M) of negative client balances, no Swiss Franc material impact

Japanese retail forex broker Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698) has released a statement indicating that it experienced no material negative financial impact from last week's Swiss Franc volatility. Monex did experience some clients with negative equity balances, but those totaled just 0.2% of the firm's assets, or about ¥160 million (USD $1.4 million) of negative balances. The…

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January 15, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

Monex makes TradeStation available to its Japanese customers

Platform features are fully available for Japanese retail investors with a downloadable version The Japanese subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc. has released a press release announcing the launch of its own TradeStation platform for Japanese retail investors. Up until now it was available only to their clients of US based TradeStation Securities and TradeStation Technologies…

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