Tag: ASIC regulated brokers

October 28, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

AxiTrader sees website go down for several hours Tuesday caused by Microsoft Azure problems - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... Continuing our exclusive coverage of a series of (seemingly unconnected) outages and hacks hitting the Forex trading world of late, LeapRate has learned that leading Australian retail forex broker AxiTrader experienced an outage lasting several hours on Tuesday October 27. AxiTrader clients were apparently unable to log into their accounts during the latter…

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March 25, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

Australian CFD broker FP Markets connects to LMAX liquidity

Australian broker FP Markets beefs up FX execution with LMAX In an effort to boost its FX offering to clients FP Markets (FPM) out of Australia has partnered with LMAX Exchange. Matthew Murphie, Managing Director of FP Markets commented in the press release: “We are thrilled to have teamed up with LMAX Exchange as their…

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February 07, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

AxiTrader launches in the U.S.

Going against the trend, Australia's AxiTrader enters the U.S. Retail FX market. At a time when we are seeing a number of foreign FX brokerages abandon the heavily-regulated U.S. market (e.g. Forex Club), and even U.S.-based firms close shop domestically to focus on foreign markets (e.g. GFT), along comes AxiTrader going the other way. Australia's…

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January 16, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

New Australian FX firm IFM gets ASIC license

Focus to be on assisted and automated trading for retail clients. Australia's financial regulator ASIC has granted a license to newly-formed FX and CFDs brokerage Intelligent Financial Markets (or "IFM"). IFM is beginning operations this month as an ECN / STP broker, with a focus on assisted trading and expert-driven automated trading, all using its own…

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