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Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has just issued a new circular, outlining the rules governing brokers which offer cryptocurrency CFD trading to clients. CySEC began by pointing out – as did UK regulator the FCA last month – that while cryptocurrencies themselves are not considered financial inst...

Software developer Kx Systems has launched cryptocurrency trading on its white label forex (FX) trading platform Kx for Flow, the company reported in a blog post May 14. Starting today, Kx for Flow customers are able to conduct spot trading of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH),...

One of the best known (and regarded) names in the Retail FX world has resurfaced, this time in the cryptocurrency trading world. Daniel Skowronski (pictured above), who was CEO of the recently acquired Oanda UK business as well as previously CEO of Alpari UK, has announced the launch of his new c...

Whereas the latest news around online trading services provider CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX) have been focused on its institutional offering, the broker has apparently not forgotten about the retail segment of its business and newbie clients that take their first steps in the trading worlds. The co...

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has announced that it is now providing its EDGX Depth real-time stock quote and trade information to dxFeed Bookmap, an innovative full order book pattern detection and analysis software. The EDGX Depth feed is a market data product from Cboe Global Marke...

The company has added the following studies: VWAP, Momentum, Price Channels, Time Series Forecast, and Moving Average Weighted.About a week after making improvements to the positions pageon its mobile application for iOS devices, online trading services provider TradeStation is ready with another...

GetGo, the innovative mobile trading application offered by online trading major Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), continues to enjoy enhancements. The company has prepared the application to go international, as it now has the ability to accept USD, AUD and EUR accounts. Let’s recall that t...

Thank you for the invitation to speak here this morning. It is now almost a year since the FX Global Code (the Code) was launched. Today, I will update you on the progress towards its adoption within the industry. I will also talk a little about the body charged with maintaining the Code – the Gl...

The burgeoning demand by retail traders to strike direct relationships with prime of primes that have access to direct bank liquidity is a moot point and has resulted in a tug of war. We dissect the entire situation and speak to the banks and the traders concerned. Feeling the squeeze but...

LeapRate has learned that Investoo Group, which has rapidly grown to become one of the largest FX and crypto affiliates, is now registered by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK, as an Appointed Representative of Met Facilities LLP. Met Facilities provides a regulatory hosting umbrell...

Investment company Leucadia National Corp (NYSE:LUK) – which is in the process of rebranding itself to Jefferies Financial Group – has issued its 10Q quarterly report for Q1-2018, providing an update among other things on its outstanding loan to Retail FX broker FXCM Group. In the big picture, Le...

The shareholders of OANDA Global Corporation (OANDA) have announced that they have accepted an offer from a wholly-owned subsidiary of CVC Capital Partners (CVC) Asia Fund IV to acquire all of the outstanding equity of OANDA. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals. Founded i...

GMO Click Securities, a subsidiary of GMO Internet Inc. (TYO:9449), is about to make changes to its mobile app offering as a result of a new Google Play policy, the broker said in a notice to its clients today. The move, as one might expect, concerns an options trading application for Android...

Canadian provincial financial regulator The Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority of Saskatchewan (FCAA) has announced that it has issued a Temporary Cease Trade Order against Ava Trade Limited. The FCAA stated that AvaTrade appears to be operating an unregistered online platform that allows...

Following three months of strong FX trading volumes to start off the year, GTX – the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) – has reported that activity slowed somewhat during the month of April 2018. GTX reported $306.5 billion of total trading activity...

The new feature allows traders to close option spreads directly from the positions view. Online trading services provider TradeStation continues to enhance its mobile applications. This weekend, the company released the latest version (4.1) of its TradeStation Mobile application for iOS devices. ...

LeapRate has learned thatSaxo Capital Markets UK Ltd has seen the resignation of the company’sHead of Legal and Compliance, Andrew Stylianou. ...

A former HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) executive was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday after he was found guilty by a jury of defrauding Cairn Energy Plc (CNE.L) in a $3.5 billion currency trade in 2011. Mark Johnson, formerly head of HSBC’s global foreign exchange cash trading desk, was ...

ISDA has just informed the public that it has partnered with law firm Linklaters to develop an online tool that will allow firms to electronically negotiate initial margin (IM) documentation. The new platform is being built to help facilitate compliance with regulatory IM requirements as a wider...