Tag: FX research

September 23, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

FXCM strengthens institutional offering by acquiring research shop Faros Trading

Faros clients are mainly hedge funds, institutional money managers, corporations, and family offices. Just a few days after acquiring Alpari US's retail assets, global forex leader FXCM has made an acquisition on the institutional side of its business, buying Faros Trading. Faros is a leader in FX intelligence, market coverage, and execution services to the institutional foreign…

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May 25, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

LeapRate’s Best-of-the-Web Forex Research

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June 04, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

CME FX contacts volumes up 25% in May

First indication of healthy industry-wide FX volumes in May.

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June 04, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

FxPro upgrades UK FSA license

FxPro UK Ltd can now hold client money and act as principal.

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May 04, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

Kathy Lien and Boris Schlossberg start managing funds

Pair leave GFT to add asset management to their FX signals firm.

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August 27, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

Japan's Forex market still reeling in first half 2012

Gaitame only doing about $30 billion of monthly volume / $28M annualized revenue.

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September 24, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

LeapRate Retail FX Volume Index down 5% in August

Low Volatility + Vacation = Slow Summer for FX trading.

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September 24, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

Hotspot FX unlikely to be sold

Hotspot FX would likely fetch $150-200 million.

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July 11, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

Another (!!) Forex ECN launches – tpSPOTDEAL

Hard to believe that all the new FX ECN entrants will be successful.

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July 04, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

CME FX contacts volumes up 11% in June

First indication that June followed May as a good volume month in FX.

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