LeapRate’s Retail FX Volume Index rises 5% in August as end-of-month volatility jumpstarts end-of-summer trading
Global retail forex trading activity rose to $329 billion per day during the very normally slow summer trading season.
Read moreGlobal retail forex trading activity rose to $329 billion per day during the very normally slow summer trading season.
Read moreThe following guest post is courtesy of Paul Puey, CEO and Co-Founder at Bitcoin Edge Security Platform for Digital Assets Company Airbitz. — Last night, we stayed up all night preparing to send out 585 letters (see text below). 50 Governors, 100 Senators, and 435 Congressmen. In our letters, we warn these elected officials of…
Read moreThe relationship between bitcoin and the global financial market, particularly banking institutions, has historically been tense. But recently all parties have realized they can benefit from partnering.
Read moreThe overall XTB Group's 2014 Revenues came in at $55 million, Net Profit $21 million
Read moreThe following analysis is based on research posted at Saxo Bank's Tradingfloor. The original article appears at Tradingfloor.com. For more opinions by leading FX analysts in real time see LeapRate's Forex Research section, or subscribe to our daily Forex Research Newsletter. — The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) surprised traders (or at least half of…
Read moreLooking for detailed data on historical currency rates? Well Tradermade Systems, a provider of real-time market data and proprietary analytics software to central banks, leading corporations, financial institutions and individual traders, today launched FXQuest - a cloud-based technology platform that gives clients the ability to retrieve reliable, accurate information on more than four decades of…
Read moreLeapRate has learned that FCA-regulated Forex platform provider and operator XTB Limited lost £687,000 in 2014 (USD $1.1 million), on revenues of £970,000 (USD $1.5 million). To keep the company liquid, XTB's shareholders continue to stream money to the company. During 2014 XTB received £1.1 million, and in March 2015 a further £500,000 was invested by…
Read moreSafeCharge is moving its domicile from the BVI to Guernsey to help facilitate a potential future from AIM to the 'Main Market' of the London Stock Exchange.
Read moreFollowers of LeapRate will have noticed us writing lately about the trend of retail forex brokers redesigning their websites - particularly brokers in Australia, with leading brokers in the country such as AxiTrader and Pepperstone changing the way they present themselves to the world. These changes are, in our view, not trivial. For all web-based…
Read moreA number of Forex and Binary platform providers have begun to cross over and add simplified versions of 'the other' platform to clients
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