AxiTrader hires Oanda and CMC Markets veteran Louis Cooper as Global Head of Retail Services LeapRate

September 26, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

AxiTrader hires Oanda and CMC Markets veteran Louis Cooper as Global Head of Retail Services

Leading Australia-based Retail Forex and CFDs broker AxiTrader has announced the appointment of Louis Cooper as Head of Global Retail Sales. Cooper, a seasoned executive in the CFD and FX industry, will spearhead AxiCorp’s efforts in capturing new markets as the company solidifies its global footprint. The move came on the heels of the company’s…

August 26, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Blueberry Markets goes live as authorized rep of ASIC licensed retail forex broker EightCap

Following up on our exclusive report of August 4, that former AxiTrader exec Dean Hyde is launching a new Retail Forex brokerage, LeapRate has learned that the operation - called Blueberry Markets - has now indeed gone live and has begun taking on clients. One of the questions we were asked by our readers after…

August 07, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Industry Week Review: AxiTrader PE capital raise, launch of Blueberry Markets, France ban, and lots more...

It was a mix of corporate reports and regulatory events in Forex Industry News at LeapRate this week. LeapRate broke the story of the latest regulated Forex broker to launch, Australia's Blueberry Markets. We were also first to bring you news and analysis of AxiTrader's large private equity capital raise, France's ban on advertising highly…

August 04, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

AxiTrader lands multi million dollar investment from private equity firm RGT Capital

AxiCorp Financial Services Pty Ltd, parent company of leading Australian retail forex and CFD broker AxiTrader, has announced that it has received an investment from private equity firm RGT Capital. Neither party gave much in terms of details of the transaction. However LeapRate has learned that it was a multi million dollar investment for a…

August 04, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Former AxiTrader exec Dean Hyde launching Retail Forex brokerage, Blueberry Markets

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that longtime AxiTrader executive Dean Hyde has left the company, and is getting set to launch a new Retail Forex brand called (uniquely) Blueberry Markets. Hyde had been with AxiTrader, Australia's largest Retail Forex broker, for nearly six years, starting as a Sales Trader and steadily working his way up…

June 20, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

AxiTrader cuts leverage on GBP pairs and other instruments to 20:1 ahead of Brexit referendum

Leading 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…

June 12, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Industry Week Review - Baidu's binary options ban, IronFX-FXDD merger, AxiTrader's new CEO, and lots more

It was another week of record hits to our site, as Forex industry news at LeapRate uncovered some big industry-changing stories before anyone else. We of course broke the story of the planned IronFX-FXDD merger and reverse takeover into a public company, after which a number of other blogs seemed to pop up with me-too 'Exclusive' stories…

June 10, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

AxiTrader Chairman Goran Drapac on new CEO Rajesh Yohannan - who he's replacing, Goran's own new role...

Leading 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…

February 25, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

AxiTrader launches new Client Portal

Leading Australian Forex and CFD broker AxiTrader has launched its new Client Portal. The solution is rolled out after a long development phase. It enables AxiTrader clients to streamline and self-manage several of the most important aspects of their trading account management, from transferring funds across accounts to adjusting default levels of leverage. Alex MacKinnon, General…

February 23, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

AxiTrader adds new energy, agricultural CFDs to offering

Leading Australian retail Forex and CFD broker AxiTrader keeps expanding the lineup of trading instruments available to its clients. Just a couple of weeks after the company announced the addition of two new index CFDs - EURO STOXX 50 and NAS100, it is introducing several new energy and agricultural contracts. The new additions on the energy…

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