Category: Exclusive

GAIN Capital's Nicholas Scott to lead FXTM’s Product Development team
May 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXTM CEO Olga Rybalkina on sports sponsorships, forex regulatory changes, and lots more

LeapRate Exclusive Interview... It hasn't been easy running a Retail Forex brokerage lately. Regulatory changes, technology which is constantly changing, ever increasing competition... Continuing our series of discussions with various industry leaders, we are pleased to present our recent conversation with Olga Rybalkina, CEO of CySEC regulated FXTM. Olga has quite a lot to say…

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May 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Lebanese retail forex broker BogoFinance gets CySEC CIF license

LeapRate Exclusive... It looks like the folks at CySEC have been busy. And, despite CySEC's introduction late last year of more strict rules governing the operations of retail forex brokers - e.g. no bonuses, limited leverage, call center location... - the desire for brokers to become licensed in the EU via Cyprus remains in high…

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April 27, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

China-focused retail forex broker FX88.com gets CySEC CIF license

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that the most recent CIF license handed out by Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has gone to retail forex broker FX88.com via its parent company Galactus Ltd. The license was formally approved this Tuesday, April 25. Backed by investors in Singapore, Galactus / FX88.com was formed last year by a number…

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XTB forex broker
April 26, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex broker XTB sees revenues plummet 38% in Q1 to PLN 58 million

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings made in Poland that Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, has continued its quite unusual pattern of up-and-down performance with a very slow quarter to begin 2017. XTB has indicated in…

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April 19, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

TechFinancials co-founder and COO Jeremy Lange resigning

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Jeremy Lange has resigned from binary options platform and brokerage group TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH), and is on his way out of the industry. Lange retains an approximate 10% ownership stake in TechFinancials, a similar percentage to the company's other founders Eyal Alon, Asaf Lahav (CEO), Danny Magen, and Eyal Rosenblum. We…

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