The Irish financial sector is set to grow, and quite possibly to a significant extent.
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FCA regulated Retail Forex and CFDs broker Hantec Markets is about to unveil a new MT4 plugin, which will allow Hantec clients to receive email notifications regarding their deposit and withdrawals. We understand that Hantec plans to send out the following notifications to its clients in the coming days: Dear Valued Client, Here at Hantec Markets we…
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The competitive FCA regulated brokerage market is getting even more crowded. A new brokerage calling itself True Trade Ltd has received an FCA licence, and is planning to launch in 2017. The company does not yet have an active website. True Trade is owned by New York based entrepreneur Michael Frey, whose company designs and…
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The FCA regulated Retail Forex brokerage market is getting increasingly crowded, with the latest entrant being XM.com. XM.com, which has been operating as a CySEC regulated company out of Limassol, Cyprus, announced the opening of a London office under a new license granted to the company's new UK subsidiary Trading Point of Financial Instruments UK Limited.…
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LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that FCA regulated broker ADS Securities London Limited, the UK arm of Abu Dhabi based broker ADS Securities LLC, has had its auditor Ernst & Young resign. No word has been received about a replacement for Ernst & Young at ADS. ADS entered the UK market in late 2015…
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FCA and CySEC licensed Retail Forex broker FxPro has sent a note out to clients, indicating that it is returning to margin requirements to normal for most currency pairs (see details below). However for the time being, FxPro is leaving its new (tighter) margin requirements in place for Precious Metals, Spot Indices and Shares. FxPro had…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Retail Forex broker Tickmill has successfully received a license from UK regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for its UK entity, Tmill UK Limited. Tickmill has grown to date to the $50 billion per month volume range as a Seychelles regulated broker, focusing mainly on markets in the Far…
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Retail forex broker Exness has reported its FX volume and operating results for October, indicating a slight 4% decline in activity MoM from September to $208.9 billion. Still, a fairly good result given that September was Exness’ second best month of 2016, after record monthly volumes of $253 billion recorded in July in a very…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated Retail Forex and CFDs broker GKFX has raised £6.54 million (USD $8 million) in a series of transactions during the months of September and October. The money, most of which was formally raised late last week, was invested into GKFX by controlling shareholder Kasim Garipoglu, a 31-year-old Turkish investor…
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Australia based research house Investment Trends has released its 2016 UK Leverage Trading Report, an in-depth analysis of UK traders and investors’ attitudes and investing habits based on a large-scale survey of more than 12,000 UK investors conducted both before and after the Brexit vote. Not surprising, perennial industry giant IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) remains…
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