LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA and ASIC regulated retail forex broker ThinkForex is about to rebrand its operations under the ThinkMarkets brand. The ThinkMarkets.com beta site has been live for about a week at www.thinkmarkets.com. We expect a formal announcement from the company in the near future. Alongside the new name, logo and…
Read moreAustralia financial regulator ASIC has announced that as a result of its intervention, licensed Retail Retail Forex and CFDs broker XTrade.au Pty Ltd will implement changes to the way it handles client money. The Australian arm XTrade.au is part of the global XTrade brand which also has licensed operations in Cyprus and Belize, and which recently…
Read moreASIC regulated retail forex broker Vantage FX has announced that it is now easing trading restrictions back to normal conditions across a range of Forex currency pairs and Indices markets. Vantage FX took a very conservative approach to Brexit for it and its clients, raising margin requirements and also initiating Close-Only status for a number of…
Read moreLeading Australia-based retail forex broker AxiTrader has posted changes to the trading conditions on GBP currency pairs and certain other financial instruments, ahead of this Thursday's Brexit referendum in the UK. As predicted by many market analysts, each new poll and change in expected outcome of the very-close race is causing a lot of volatility…
Read moreAfter initiating a planned two-stage hike in margin requirements for all GBP and EUR pairs ahead of next week's Brexit referendum, as we have seen done at a number of leading Forex brokers, ASIC regulated Vantage FX has taken things a step further by setting less traded GBP and EUR pairs and some other instruments…
Read moreLeading Australia-based retail forex broker AxiTrader quietly let it slip out that it has hired a new CEO, former OANDA Head of APAC Rajesh Yohannan (pictured at left). Yohannan will actually act as CEO of AxiTrader's parent company AxiCorp Financial Services Pty Ltd, which incorporates both its retail and institutional trading arms that operate mainly under the…
Read moreLeapRate was first to break the story on Thursday of Australian retail forex broker Pepperstone securing a multi-million dollar investment, which was then copied on several other blogs. We're now pleased to bring our readers another first, in the form of an exclusive interview on the investment with Pepperstone CEO Owen Kerr. The investment in Melbourne-based Pepperstone…
Read moreThe Australian Financial Review claims that Australia's government should not be swayed by 'online forex cowboys'.
Read moreThere are no shortage of bonuses and promotions put out there by online trading firms, but this one is kind of interesting, if only for the size of the prizes. Australia-based retail forex broker AxiTrader has announced what it is calling the Million Dollar Trader competition, to run between February and April 2016. AxiTrader clients will…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive Interview... When MahiFX first came on the scene a few years back it was clear that the company had something different in mind than just being your typical MT4 Forex broker. And now, as an ASIC regulated broker, one visit to the MahiFX website confirms that there is something quite unique about the…
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