Maria Nikolova
LeapRate Analyst
May 02, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

DGCX sees YTD trading volume exceed 6 million contracts

Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) today announces that its year-to-date (YTD) trading volume topped 6 million contracts in April 2016, marking a rise of 45% over the same period last year whilst maintaining a steady Average Daily Open Interest of 109,487 contracts. The increase in overall volumes was mainly driven by DGCX’s currency segment,…

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May 02, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CME Group teams up with Crypto Facilities to launch Bitcoin Reference Rate and Real-Time Index

International derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announces its partnership with digital assets trading platform Crypto Facilities Ltd. to develop two new products: CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR) and CME CF Bitcoin Real Time Index (RTI). The roll out is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016. The BRR will aggregate the trade flow…

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May 02, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FX Blue rolls out new Publisher EA for MT5

FX Blue today announces the release of a new version of its Publisher EA for MetaTrader 5 (MT5), which enables uploading trading statements from MetaTrader 5 to FX Blue Live. The latest version of the solution supports the new hedging-style accounts which are now available in MT5. The EA also continues to support both the 32-bit and…

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May 02, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FXTF cuts spreads on four popular currency pairs

Japanese retail Forex broker FXTrade Financial (FXTF) today announces a spread reduction campaign on the MetaTrader 4 (MT4) trading platform. The campaign will last from May 2, 2016 to May 31, 2016, and will affect four popular currency pairs: USD/JPY (US dollar vs Japanese yen), EUR/JPY (euro vs Japanese yen), EUR/USD (euro vs US dollar)…

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May 02, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Nadex redesigns website, enhancing navigation and overall user experience

North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc. (Nadex), part of IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), has presented the visitors of its website (https://www.nadex.com), with a fresh new look and feel. The redesigned website, which works smoothly on all main browsers, puts the accent on visual content, seeking to simplify explanations of concepts like “binary options”. Less text…

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May 02, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Tradimo to add Russian to Little Traders language lineup

Innovative online trading school Tradimo has been seeking to widen the user base of its Little Traders application, which was first launched in January this year on iOS devices, by adding more languages. After making the solution available in German and Arabic, in addition to English, as well as, most recently, in Chinese, Tradimo is…

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May 02, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Italy's Consob warns against FX firm CVC Ltd

Italy's financial markets regulator Consob today issued a public warning against Forex firm CVC Ltd. The company is offering its services via www.cvcgroups.com, with the website having a version in Italian language too. The website says the company, also known as CVC Groups, is based in Anguilla. The Italian regulator notes that CVC Ltd (aka…

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May 02, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

TFX sees 7.9% MoM drop in Forex volumes in April 2016

The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has just published its operating metrics for April 2016, with Forex volumes continuing to fall after already registering a double-digit decrease in March. TFX’s Click 365 total trading volumes, that is, the volume of Exchange FX Margin contracts, fell 7.9% from March 2016 levels to 3,163,143 contracts. The annual comparison,…

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May 02, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Stress test finds EU central counterparties are resilient

A follow-up to LeapRate's earlier report about the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) conducting the first European Union-wide stress test exercise regarding Central Counterparties (CCPs)... As initially announced, the results of the stress test were unveiled on Friday – April 29, 2016. ESMA’s stress test focused on the counterparty credit risk which CCPs would face…

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