CySEC working to free client funds at Cyprus FX brokers LeapRate

April 03, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

CySEC working to free client funds at Cyprus FX brokers

Central Bank of Cyprus has agreed to not haircut segregated bank accounts over €100,000, where the ultimate beneficiaries are small individual investors. LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Cyprus' financial regulator CySEC is working on behalf of licensed Cyprus investment firms, which include many FX and Binary brokers, to prevent the dreaded "haircut" on bank accounts…

March 26, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Cyprus final bailout agreement is worse for the FX brokers

Unlike the original proposal, uninsured depositors will likely lose around 40% (not 10%) at Cyprus' two largest banks. The new (and seemingly final) Cyprus bailout agreed to Sunday night by senior Cyprus government officials, the EU and the IMF will see the complete wind-down of Laiki bank, the second largest bank in the country. The…

March 21, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Cyprus FX brokerages scramble to reassure clients

The website home pages of several leading Cyprus FX and Binary brokers now lead with "Your Funds Are Safe" ads. As the Cyprus bailout fiasco heads into its fourth day -- and as Cyprus banks remain closed -- the Cyprus-based FX and Binary brokers caught in the middle of all this have been scrambling to reassure…

March 20, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Cyprus-EU bailout and the FX and Binary Brokers

Wall Street Journal quotes LeapRate research in its article on Cyprus FX brokers and the bailout. First of all, we'd like to say that we're very proud that the Wall Street Journal decided to base its article on the fallout for Cyprus FX brokers on research and comments made by LeapRate Managing Director Gerald Segal.…

March 17, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

The Cyprus EU bailout – will it affect FX brokerages?

Saxo Bank co-CEO's comments question whether the 10% confiscation of client funds at Cyprus banks will also apply to Cyprus FX brokerages. Before we start (or contribute to an existing) panic among clients of Cyprus-based FX brokerages, we would like to state at the outset that we have been told directly by senior management at…

February 15, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

CySEC responds to LeapRate's 'shakedown' allegations

CySEC issues press release asserting its "authority to reach settlements". Well it seems as if we've ruffled some feathers at Cyprus' financial regulator CySEC. In an apparent response to our article Wednesday in which we claimed that CySEC is shaking down a number of FX brokers, CySEC issued a press release yesterday (full wording included below,…

February 13, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

CySEC, lacking funding, is shaking down FX brokers – the real story

CySEC threatening FX brokers if they don't settle quietly and pay large fines. LeapRate Exclusive -- Some very strange pronouncements have been coming lately from Cyprus' financial regulator CySEC relating to FX brokers. For example yesterday we see CySEC announce a €50,000 fine against eToro, with no real explanation given. (The press release mentioned a very vague…

January 31, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

CySEC recalls UFX Markets letter

Do regulators have to also pay fines themselves for making administrative errors? In a fairly quick and somewhat bizarre about-face to the story we broke earlier today (that CySEC and UFX Markets had "compromised on" an €100,000 fine for UFX Markets' regulated parent company Reliantco, for undisclosed actions), CySEC has now issued a new letter recalling…

January 31, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

CySEC fines UFX Markets €100,000

Although the fine remains shrouded in mystery as to what UFX was actually charged with doing. Cyprus' financial regulator CySEC disclosed today it had fined UFX Markets (or more specifically, its regulated parent holding company Reliantco Investments Ltd) the sum of €100,000, The fine followed a CySEC investigation "for reasonable suspicion of committing possible violations" of Cyprus'…

January 03, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

ForexTime to be run by ex-Alpari execs

Andrey Dashin's new Cyprus FX firm onboards most of Alpari FS management. LeapRate Exclusive..... Well it seems as though Alpari's decision to shut down its Cyprus operation Alpari FS -- at around the same time that Andrey Dashin's new firm ForexTime Ltd received a CySEC CIF license to begin operation -- has provided ForexTime Ltd the opportunity to…

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