Most of our coverage of Brexit and its impact on Forex trading has been of the one sided type - that it, leading Forex brokers raising required margin requirements and limiting leverage ahead of expected volatility and an expansion of spreads around the June 23 referendum in the UK. Well here's a change. Citing increased…
Read moreFCA regulated retail forex broker Hantec Markets has issued a note to clients outlining increases in margin requirements ahead of next week's UK Brexit referendum, announcing minimum 4% margin requirement (max leverage 25x) starting next week until a day after the Brexit vote. The note set out by Hantec reads as follows: Dear Valued Client,…
Read moreAfter initiating a planned two-stage hike in margin requirements for all GBP and EUR pairs ahead of next week's Brexit referendum, as we have seen done at a number of leading Forex brokers, ASIC regulated Vantage FX has taken things a step further by setting less traded GBP and EUR pairs and some other instruments…
Read moreFurther to our coverage of brokers in the retail forex sector requiring their clients to either ante up more margin or reduce leverage in their accounts ahead of next week's Brexit vote in the UK, Saxo Bank has posted specifics of new margin requirements for clients through to June 23 - and possibly beyond, depending…
Read moreIt isn't just Retail Forex brokers raising margin requirements leading up to next week's Brexit vote. Today the Moscow Exchange put out a note to clients that, due to the UK referendum on membership in the European Union on 23 June 2016, volatility in some instruments traded on Moscow Exchange may potentially increase. To mitigate…
Read moreLeapRate readers will have noticed a marked trend recently of retail forex brokers large and small putting out notes to clients that they are increasing required margin on new and existing positions ahead of next Thursday's Brexit vote in the UK. Well CySEC regulated retail forex broker easyMarkets, which rebranded earlier this year from EasyForex,…
Read moreAs our news ticker continues to beep throughout the day it seems as though every few minutes there's an 'Exclusive' report about some broker or other raising its margin requirements for clients ahead of next Thursday's Brexit vote. One of the first such reports we made on topic, for one of the first brokers to…
Read moreLeading UK online trading firm IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) began today what it plans to be a staged tightening of margin requirements for clients, leading up to the June 23 Brexit vote. As with other leading forex brokers, IG expects increased volatility and possibly widening spreads among major currency pairs, as well as stock indices,…
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