Japan likely to regulate binaries beginning in the spring. LeapRate has learned that Japan's financial regulator JFSA has instructed regulated Japanese brokers to stop marketing binary option products to their customers, pending a regulatory review of the product by the JFSA. Binaries have become more popular in Japan the past two years, and the JFSA…
Read moreRetail FX volumes flat, but institutional volumes very slow globally in October. LeapRate's Retail FX Volume Index, sponsored by Leverate, was fairly flat in October, with global retail FX trading activity down 1% to $177 billion per day. However this marks the fourth consecutive month where volumes remained well below last year's levels, with the year-over-year declines…
Read moreSeveral newcomers, added to larger incumbents, all vying for falling volumes. As we've written recently, a number of Forex spot ECN aggregators have popped up in the past year, including tpSPOTDEAL (backed by Integral and Tullett Prebon), FastMatch (FXCM and Credit Suisse), traFXpure (Tradition), and MoltenFX. And this comes at a time when all the major established Forex ECNs…
Read more... but parent Knight Capital continues its comeback from the August "glitch". Hotspot FX reported that volumes in its Forex ECN system fell in October to average $22.7 billion daily, down 12% from September's $25.8 billion -- and down 34% from last-year October's $34.2 billion. The October decrease is basically in line with what we…
Read moreUses LMAX Exchange for liquidity access. Trading platform provider PFSoft has announced that it is using LMAX's "LMAX Exchange" for access to institutional liquidity for its ProTrader 2 white label solution for FX brokers. For more details click here to see the full press release from PFSoft. For more on the global Forex industry see…
Read moreFXall surpasses ICAP-EBS as the #2 Forex ECN. It looks as though having Thomson Reuters as its parent company is paying dividends for FXall. The Forex ECN, which was acquired earlier this year by Thomson Reuters for $625 million, stopped reporting its monthly trading volumes after being taken private by Thomson Reuters. However recent filings…
Read moreClear pattern emerging of slow institutional, but decent retail volumes in October. Thomson Reuters announced their October FX ECN volumes at $120 billion per day -- 10% off September's $133 billion and 23% below last year October's $155 billion. Thomson Reuter's anemic October figures follow similar results we've seen already from other ECN / institutional…
Read moreFXCM reports healthy Q3 results and Oct volumes, shares trade up. On its Q3 conference call yesterday (more on Q3 results below), in response to a question regarding what it plans to do with its growing (now $260 million) cash balance in addition to its $155 million credit line, FXCM confirmed that it is actively…
Read moreFollows recent introduction of similar service to MT5. Thanks to CMAP for pointing out to us a recent posting on the MQL5 community blog, stating that copy trading of signal providers will be available soon on MT4. For more details see CMAP's posting. For more on the global Forex industry see the LeapRate-Dow Jones Forex Industry…
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