May 28, 2014 BY Mike Fox

State Street launches TruCross/FX to create trading efficiencies in electronic FX benchmark trading

Press Release BOSTON — State Street Global Markets today announced the launch of TruCross/FX which is available exclusively to the institutional buy-side community. TruCross/FX is a FX spot benchmark execution product that facilitates the matching of institutional trades to create efficiencies in electronic FX benchmark trading by reducing information leakage and volatility around benchmark pricing times.…

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May 27, 2014 BY Mike Fox

FXBeat becomes premium and available for brokers in white label data feed

In an official news release "FXBeat," the FXStreet.com produced feed covering Forex market news and commentary written by Jamie Coleman's team, has been upgraded to become a Premium service for private traders as well as a product available for third-party companies. Inspired by the readers requests, FXBeat's interface has been improved: now hosted on a…

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May 26, 2014 BY Mike Fox

74% of surveyed traders believe Russian retail Forex brokers should be state regulated

Russian self regulatory organization TSRFIN conducted a research survey titled "Traders on the future of forex in Russia after the introduction of regulation." Some findings from the survery of importance are below: The survey involved more than 1,000 people. - 74% of surveyed traders believe that state regulation is necessary for Russian retail segment of the forex market. -…

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May 26, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Alpari RU adds USD/CNH Chinese Yuan trading & more...

Alpari RU announced today that from June 2, 2014, they are making 6 new currency pairs available for trading. For Standard accounts (standard.mt4): USDCNH (US Dollar to Chinese Yuan) USDILS (US Dollar to Israeli Shekel) EURILS (Euro to Israeli Shekel) GBPTRY (British Pound to Turkish Lira) EURZAR (Euro to South African Rand) EURRUB (Euro to Russian…

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