At a time when many Forex and CFD brokers are distancing themselves from the Binary Options product, Alpari is now running a promotion to encourage more binary options volume among its clients. Alpari has announced a new promotion, to run through June, in which clients can attain 'PRO' status and earn a higher payout on…
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Nadex, the first and largest CFTC-regulated online exchange in the U.S offering binary options and spreads to individual traders announced this week December 2016 saw the highest monthly trading volume in Nadex’s history. But that's not all... Nadex also reported over 70% year-to-year growth in trade volume and total trades of binary options during the…
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For several years, the AMF has focused its attention on exposing the danger posed to retail investors by highly speculative products such as forex and binary options trading. In addition to calls for public awareness campaigns, the regulator introduced and now commends the measure included in the “Sapin II” law to ban electronic advertising for…
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After several months of discussion, a meeting of Israel's Knesset State Control Committee met yesterday to discuss the issue of unregulated binary options brokers operating from the country. Israel outlawed the marketing or trading of binary options to its own residents earlier this year. However many unlicensed brokers remain based in the country which market to…
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Once again, the Autorité des marchés financiers (the AMF) the organization responsible for financial regulation in the Canadian province of Québec is sounding the alarm and alerting Québec consumers to the dangers of unauthorized binary options websites. The AMF wishes to stress that no business is currently authorized to market or offer binary options in…
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Binary options platform provider SpotOption has just announced the successful launch of the latest trading product, CFDs. The CFD platform allows for trading on stocks, commodities, currencies, and indices, in major markets around the world, with flexible leverages, no shorting rules or borrowing stocks, and professional executions with guaranteed stop-loss and take-profit. The platform's transparency…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that an Israeli-based firm EZTD Inc. parent company of CySEC regulated WGM Services Ltd doing business as EZTrader must pay more than $1.7 million for misleading investors into trading binary options over the internet, and the agency warned that other firms may be out there actively trying to…
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The binary options industry has been expanding over the past several years. The simplicity of the instrument made it very popular among traders. This caused the emergence of numerous binary brokers. The unregulated environment allowed startup binary brokers to operate on the market without any barriers. As a result, unregulated binary brokers and their fraudulent…
Read moreAfter already getting several warnings from different regulators, such as the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) and Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), binary options broker Central Option got another warning, this time from the Swiss regulator FINMA. Although this latest warning's got a long way to go to reach the…
Read moreThe Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) wishes to inform investors that, at its meeting held on September 5th 2016, decided to impose a total administrative fine of €180,000 ($202,356) to the CIF IQ Option Europe Ltd. As a result of the same meeting, CySEC also decided to impose a total administrative…
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