More mobile trading has somewhat reversed trend of move to desktop traders. While desktop traders still dominate the FX trading landscape, the fact that traders are more and more using mobile devices -- both smartphones and tablets -- has re-increased the importance of web traders to the typical retail FX trader. (And has also resulted…
Read moreFXCM to offer Tradency's Mirror Trader to its entire client base. FXCM, the world's largest retail FX brokerage (and a member of LeapRate's Approved List of global FX firms), announced that it has expanded its existing agreement with Tradency, the developer and originator of Mirror Trading technology, to provide access to Mirror Trader to FXCM's entire client base. …
Read moreLCG reports continued slow trading volumes in Q4 and into this year. London Capital Group issued a Trading Update on its fourth quarter 2012, stating that it "continued to experience suppressed trading volumes in the fourth quarter". The group's revenues in the second half of 2012 totalled just £10.2 million, down 45% from £18.4 million in the…
Read moreBoth institutional and retail eFX brokers pouring more resources into China. BNP Paribas introduced its Silverlight-based single dealer eFX platform Cortex just last March, and has now announced the roll-out of a Chinese language version of Cortex. Similar to leading retail FX brokers, BNP has clearly prioritized China as a high-growth region. The Cortex platform…
Read moreETNA will provide Saxo Bank with outsourced services around its in-house systems. Financial platforms and IT consulting firm ETNA Software today announced that it has signed a "long-term partnership" with leading retail FX broker Saxo Bank. We understand that this new relationship is connected to the Saxo Bank downsizing completed at the end of last year,…
Read moreFirst "pure play" Binary Options provider to get licensed in Cyprus. Quite a number of the Binary Options brokers which set up shop in Cyprus over the past two years were somewhat disappointed when the national financial regulator CySEC decided last year that Binaries were indeed a financial instrument -- making them subject to regulation,…
Read moreGMO Click Securities reports FX volumes 2.5x what they were last December. As we predicted a few weeks ago, December FX volumes are looking unseasonably warm in Japan, as Yen volatility surrounding the intentions of the new Japanese government has brought traders back to the table. As is evident from the chart above, trading volumes…
Read moreICAP's EBS losing ground to FXall and Thomson Reuters in the FX ECN business. With competitors showing mixed results in what is usually a slow December FX trading season, ICAP's EBS unit reported its lowest monthly volumes since 2005 (!!), at $91.8 billion (average daily volume) 12% off last month and 4% below last year…
Read moreFXall hits the $100 billion-per-day mark for just the second time ever. For the second month in a row, we see divergent results from Thomson Reuters (volumes down 8%) and its recently-acquired subsidiary FXall (volumes up 5%) in December. And with FXall hitting (exactly) the $100 billion-per-month volume level for just the second time ever,…
Read moreFirst peek at December FX industry volumes is looking good. CME Group, which runs the world's largest derivatives marketplace, announced that FX contract volumes (mainly Eurodollar futures contracts) in its system were up by 7% in December from November, and up 14% from last year December, to an average of 826,000 contracts daily. The EURUSD's bull run, from 1.29…
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