The following article was written by Alex Nekritin, Managing Director of liquidity and technology consulting company Nekstream Global. Parabolic growth of Bitcoin With bitcoin experiencing parabolic growth, managing risk for brokers is becoming more and more challenging. Most clients are buying and holding while the underlying is pretty much going straight up in price. Not…
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LeapRate Exclusive... It looks like there indeed is a downside to the rapid runup in cryptocurrency trading at Retail FX shops. With the surge in interest from retail traders to trade bitcoin, ethereum and their various crypto cousins, some FX brokers - always welcoming new clients, of course, alongside increased trading volume from existing clients…
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After seamlessly blasting through the $10,000 mark and setting an all-time high of $11,395 early last week, Bitcoin prices came back down to earth and leveled out at just above $9,000 on Thursday and Friday, beginning what looked to be a possibly uncertain December for the ever-popular cryptocurrency. But not to worry. Once again, it…
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Cryptocurrency liquidity provider B2C2 has announced the appointment of Peter Nielsen, Ruth Wandhöfer and Phil Weisberg to its advisory board. B2C2 is a leading cryptocurrency liquidity provider. Bridging the gap between traditional finance and cryptocurrency markets, the company is trusted by clients globally for its ability to provide seamless execution in 10+ local currencies. B2C2’s…
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FCA regulated FX Prime of Prime brokerage and liquidity provider CFH Clearing has announced that it is rolling out liquidity in Bitcoin through FIX and MT4, and will soon be adding Ethereum, Litecoin and Dash. The products will be treated as CFDs so there is no delivery of cryptocurrencies or a need for clients to…
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LeapRate Exclusive Interview... Virtually (no pun intended) every day we have been seeing some forex broker or another announce something to the effect of "Now you can trade Bitcoin / Ethereum / Dash / Ripple with us". Not exactly news any more, but it certainly highlights the increasing interest both retail brokers and traders have…
Read moreWholesale FX solution enables secure, plug-and-play bitcoin pricing and execution via MT4 bridge
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