Maria Nikolova
LeapRate Analyst
May 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

OANDA starts offering trading on PTMC platform

Trading software developer PFSOFT today announces its collaboration with online trading services provider OANDA. OANDA will provide trade execution and market data to the PFSOFT PTMC (Protrader Multi-Connect) solution through OANDA’s REST API. OANDA’s retail traders are now able to use the PTMC platform with a wide variety of functionalities, including advanced charts, powerful drawings…

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May 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CME Group announces Q2 dividend of $0.60 per share

International derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) on Tuesday declared a second-quarter dividend of $0.60 per share. The dividend will be payable June 27, 2016, to shareholders of record as of June 10, 2016. The dividend is declared shortly after CME Group posted a set of solid metrics for the first quarter of 2016. During…

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May 18, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Japanese OTC Forex volumes fall 5% M/M in April 2016

The Financial Futures Association of Japan (FFAJ) has just published the monthly operating metrics of its members that offer Forex and binary options trading over the counter for April 2016. And although the drop in FX volumes lost pace, the decrease in binary options volumes remained substantial. As usual, we first take a look at…

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May 17, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Interactive Brokers adds more Statement/Balance Sheet Columns in TWS

Online trading services provider Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) keeps enhancing the functionalities of its proprietary TWS platform. The broker has added a new series of more than 30 new statement and balance sheet-focused Fundamentals columns to the TWS layout. Traders can add these columns to a watchlist, quote monitor and other TWS tools by…

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May 17, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CLS’ daily input volume stages 3.6% M/M rise in April 2016

CLS Group (CLS), a market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has earlier today published its operating metrics for April 2016. The average daily input volume submitted to CLS, combining the settlement and aggregation services, was 1,073,203 last month, marking a rise of 3.6% from 1,035,678 in March 2016. In…

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May 17, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

MOEX makes new risk transfer functionality between Derivatives and FX markets available for testing

Moscow Exchange, or Moskovskaya Birzha MMVB-RTS PAO (MCX:MOEX), the biggest Russian venue for trading shares, FX and derivatives, today announces that a new risk transfer functionality between Derivatives and FX markets is available for testing. The planned date for the production release is June 27, 2016. Risk transfer between Derivatives and FX markets: In SPECTRA…

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May 17, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

AMF turns to France's president regarding Forex advertising ban

Gérard Rameix, head of France's securities regulator AMF, has addressed the nation's president François Hollande, voicing his concerns regarding the risks associated with trading online, and Forex trading in particular. The letter mentions that in the face of the regulatory efforts to curb the investors' exposure to such high-risk products, the amount of losses from…

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