CMC said that it continued to offer its clients resilient platforms, which meant that existing clients could trade. New clients could also onboard even throughout periods in which trading volumes were extremely high and markets were especially volatile. It also continued to invest in proprietary tech platforms to diversify its offerings, having launched Spot FX…
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Raj Sitlani, Managing Director, ISAM Capital Markets said: Our financials confirm IS Prime’s position as a global market leader in our industry and we are very pleased to report yet another year of record revenues. We have achieved significant growth outside the UK, virtually doubling our turnover in the rest of Europe. We have also…
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In the first half of the year, Admiral Markets also set a record growth of new customers with 260% increase since the previous year. Bogatenkov explained: Admiral Markets is today a financially secure company, offering its customers a successful partnership. Our focus is on aggressive clients’ growth. As a digitally developed company, one of the…
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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is suddenly reporting that foreign exchange volume and open interest are hitting records never before seen. Volatility in our forex markets have been in gradual decline for years, due in part to the constraints that global central banks have instituted regarding monetary and interest rate policies. CME executives have tried…
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Saxo Bank has reported its worst monthly FX volume in almost 4 years. This time of year is particularly hard for brokers, and Saxo Bank proved no exception. Saxo Bank is a Danish investment bank that specializes in investment and online trading. During November, the multi-asset broker posted a month-on-month drop across the board for…
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Boerse Stuttgart has released its volume report for the month of November and has generated turnover of around EUR 6,1 billion, up 14% YoY. Securitised derivatives made up the largest share of the turnover with a trading volume of around EUR 2,4 billion. Leverage products generated more than EUR 1.3 billion. Investment products contributed over…
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Two new crypto research studies were released last week, which reveal that the United States still leads the crypto world with respect to sourced exchange volumes and that 64% of the payments taken from victims of ransomware attacks rely on crypto addresses as their means of settlement. Top Sources of Traffic to Crypto Exchanges Globally…
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Crypto enthusiasts are always predicting a tsunami of capital inflows, as soon as institutional investors jump on board the crypto train. Many analysts have researched traffic and blockchain addresses in several ways to determine if the “fingerprint” of an institutional player is already present, and possibly not in a small way, in Crypto-Land. It is…
Read moreJust released today from Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) shows trading volume at the Asia-Pacific exchange ended 2015 with a total of 264,495,660 contracts (last high recorded in 2014: 202,411,093 contracts), an all-time high since the open of business and its first time to exceed the 1 million benchmark in average daily trading volume (1,083,999 contracts).…
Read moreLast month was one of the slowest volume months of the year for Forex...but data for December is showing a quick snap-back with plenty of events taking place in the last couple of weeks to finish the year strong for brokers and venues across the industry. It was widely reported on LeapRate the month of November was…
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