LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated Retail Forex brokerage ETX Capital has made another major acquisition of the client list of an active Forex brokerage, its third such acquisition over the past three years. And apparently it is looking for more. The acquired client list is of PipIndex, an MT4 broker which was effectively…
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Continuing its string of warnings against unregulated brokers and other scams targeting retail traders in Canada, Canadian securities regulator the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has added to its Investment Caution List MT4 forex broker Trade12, owned and operated by Exo Capital Markets Limited and Global Fin Services Ltd. from website trade12.com. According to the…
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International derivatives broker Sucden Financial has appointed Noel Singh as Head of eFX Business Development, where he will lead the firm’s development of its non-bank FX prime brokerage business. Singh will specifically target institutional firms, including asset managers, hedge funds and prop trading houses. His appointment comes as part of a significant investment plan to…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Australia-based retail forex broker Pepperstone has suspended trading for clients in its UK subsidiary Pepperstone Limited. LeapRate had exclusively reported last September on Pepperstone's somewhat quiet entry into the FCA regulated broker market. Pepperstone acquired what is now its UK subsidiary from online entrepreneur Mohammed Tayeb, who alongside his broker Omar…
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GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP), the U.S. based provider of online trading services, announced that it has successfully migrated the former U.S. customers of FXCM Inc (NASDAQ: FXCM) to GAIN'S retail brand FOREX.com. Over the weekend, GAIN transferred over 47,000 accounts with total assets of approximately $142 million. To ensure that the migration was successful…
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Swiss interdealer broker Compagnie Financiere Tradition SA (SWX:CFT) announced that has delivered an initial margin optimization in FX, after extending its partnership with LMRKTS, a compression and analytics provider. Tradition and LMRKTS announced a strategic partnership in 2016 to handle execution and compression processing for G10 FX Forwards. Earlier this month, the two firms completed…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings in the UK, and in discussion with industry insiders, that Daniel Skowronski has resigned as CEO of the UK subsidiary of retail forex broker Oanda, Oanda Europe Limited. Mr. Skowronski had been CEO of FCA-regulated Oanda UK for the past three years, joining Oanda after serving in…
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Online gaming and financial trading systems giant Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) has announced its results for 2016, which showed significant improvement across the board in Revenues (up 12% over 2015), EBITDA (up 20%) and Net Profit (up a tidy 42%). The second half of 2016 also saw a nice turnaround, or at least a stabilization, at…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK) has upped its position in UK online broker IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) to over 9%. New York based BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, with more than $5 trillion in assets under management. IG Group is the UK's largest online broker,…
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London-based online trading firm CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX) launched its new limited-risk CFD account in France. The new account has been launched to comply with new regulatory rules from the French regulator (AMF), and is designed to best serve clients’ interests. Every new client opening a trading account with CMC Markets will now be able…
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