Tag: leading Australia forex brokers

Tamas Szabo Pepperstone
October 18, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Pepperstone hires IG Group's Tamas Szabo as Group CEO

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that leading Australian Retail FX and CFDs broker Pepperstone has hired Tamas Szabo as its Group Chief Executive Officer. We expect the company to make a formal announcement shortly. Tamas Szabo was most recently CEO of the Australia and New Zealand operation, and Head of Asia Pacific, for IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG).…

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May 24, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Pepperstone becomes latest forex broker to add Tradency's RoboX algo trading

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Pepperstone, one of Australia's leading retail forex brokers, has expanded its social and auto trading offering by adding RoboX from Tradency. We had reported that Pepperstone recently launched Tradency’s other main product, its MirrorTrader forex auto trading platform. Apparently the company decided to expand its agreement with Tradency, adding its…

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March 27, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Australia parliament passes new legislation to protect Retail Forex client money

Breaking Forex News... LeapRate has learned that Australia's parliament today passed the Treasury Laws Amendment (Measures No 1) Bill 2016, known more commonly as the Retail Client Money law. We had reported back in November that the Australian government was going to change the rules as to what ASIC licensed retail brokers offering over-the-counter derivatives products (read:…

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March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Pepperstone launches Tradency's MirrorTrader forex auto trading platform

Financial trading technology provider Tradency has announced that leading Australian retail forex broker Pepperstone is set to launch Tradency's MirrorTrader service. The MirrorTrader service will enhance Pepperstone's offering for clients with automatic execution of unique algo-strategies. Tradency's MirrorTrader provides technology for retail clients, which traditionally had only been available to institutional traders. The MirrorTrading concept…

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January 21, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

AxiTrader sees phone system down due to carrier Optus technical issue

Leading Australian retail forex broker AxiTrader is reporting difficulty in having clients contact the company by telephone over the past few hours, due to technical issues at AxiTrader's carrier provider Optus. Optus (or formally Singtel Optus Pty Limited) is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel. Not a…

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