Category: Anya Aratovskaya

The Archegos story - what FX brokers can learn from it?
June 02, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

The Archegos story - what FX brokers can learn from it?

Prime Brokerage Services include actual “physical”,or cash, financing (loans,for example) and “synthetic” financing (leveraged trading in FX terms). Qualified financial institutions (Hedge Funds, Prime of Primes, Family offices) borrow money from Prime Brokerages to place leveraged orders. The amount of leverage given is determined, exclusively, based on the client profile (background, trading style, capital etc).…

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Payment solutions for unregulated offshore FX Brokers
December 09, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Payment solutions for unregulated offshore FX Brokers

PSP (or E-Wallet) Webmoney, Qiwi, PayPal, Skrill, Neteller, Yandex and others. FX Offshore Broker needs to open a wallet in the selected payment system and place it on the website and in the Trader's Room (Link to the Article about Traders Room) Fees: Can be dramatically different between currencies. Make sure to get a detailed…

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January 15, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

The challenges of 100% uptime solution

This article is courtesy of Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. The year of 2018 announced the era when DDoS attacks exceeded 1 terabyte on an individual attack basis. The definition of a “DDoS” (Distributed Denial-of Service) attack is “a malicious attempt to disrupt normal traffic of a targeted server,…

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Regulation
December 06, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Regulatory Jurisdictions for startup FX Brokerages

The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. The FX Landscape has changed dramatically this year, mostly due to the implementation of MiFID 2 regulations, and rulings by ESMA, in Europe alongside additional government scrutiny of the Chinese FX Market and the exposure of failed profit-sharing models.…

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Anya Aratovskaya Advanced Markets Fortex
October 17, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FIX API - How to get one

The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. Our marketing team gets countless emails from retail traders requesting demo versions of our FIX API. Advanced Markets does not work directly with retail traders (the firm only deals with institutional clients), however, upon researching these requests…

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June 13, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Traders’ Room and CRM for your FX Brokerage: 101

The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. As with most businesses, the operation of a Retail FX Brokerage involves a lot of moving parts that must be synced together to create an efficient and viable business. These would include Legal (KYC, trading agreements, dispute…

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best MAM system MT4 MT5
September 26, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

What is the best MAM system for MT4 / MT5?

The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets. MAM is an acronym for Multi Account Manager, a plugin originally designed for the Meta Trader 4 Platform to allow the proportional (or any set) profit and loss distribution from Fund Manager (or Master) to Investors (or Sub Accounts).  The…

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MT4 MT5 bridge
August 04, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Top 5 most useful MetaTrader 4 / MetaTrader 5 Bridge features

The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets. The MetaTrader 4 Bridge is one of the most popular add-ons for MT4 Servers. It was created in early 2000 and, ever since then, there have been many rumors as to who actually developed the first commercial version (of course,…

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