First "pure play" Binary Options provider to get licensed in Cyprus. Quite a number of the Binary Options brokers which set up shop in Cyprus over the past two years were somewhat disappointed when the national financial regulator CySEC decided last year that Binaries were indeed a financial instrument -- making them subject to regulation,…
Read moreJapan likely to regulate binaries beginning in the spring. LeapRate has learned that Japan's financial regulator JFSA has instructed regulated Japanese brokers to stop marketing binary option products to their customers, pending a regulatory review of the product by the JFSA. Binaries have become more popular in Japan the past two years, and the JFSA…
Read moreBinary Options market heating up, as brokers look to add new products. Binary options, digital options and financial spreadbetting have been around for a long time. However most Forex brokerage firms have avoided offering such trading to their clients, as win-it-all-or-lose-it-all trading has been (correctly) viewed as closer to gambling than it is to trading…
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Read moreBinary Options deemed a "financial instrument" by CySEC.
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