FXCM Group LLC, the operating company now running the FXCM retail forex brand, has announced that it has named Brendan Callan as its CEO. Mr. Callan was named interim CEO of FXCM back in February, following the abrupt resignation of FXCM co-founder Drew Niv from the operations of FXCM globally, after Mr. Niv (and FXCM) were…
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This past week of Forex Industry News seemed to have it all - regulatory changes, executive moves, social trading launches, lots of broker results, and a whole lot more. And as usual, only LeapRate brought you the key stories - the launch of social trading site Crowd Trading, Ayondo raising money, GKFX's former CEO landing at…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Anthony Mazzarese has made the jump from the FXCM Pro division of Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR) to investment bank Jefferies LLC, joining Jefferies as SVP FX Prime Brokerage. Mr. Mazzarese rejoined FXCM in 2015 following FXCM's acquisition of CitiFX's mid-market FX margin business. He helped successfully transitioned the CitiFX margin business to FXCM post…
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Adding to its mounting problems, Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR) has announced that it has received a delisting notice from stock exchange Nasdaq. Global Brokerage, formerly FXCM Inc., is the publicly-traded holding company which now owns an effective 37% interest in operating company FXCM Group LLC. The remainder (or rather, majority) of FXCM Group is owned by…
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LeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that FCA regulated Forex and CFD brokerage GCM Prime Ltd has grown its business nicely in its first full year of operation. For the nine months ended December 31, 2016, GCM Prime brought in Revenues of £1.5 million, had an operating loss of £227,000, and grew its Client…
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Retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has reported what can only be described as a horrific quarter to begin 2017. Q1-2017 results were poor across the board at what is now the leading US-based retail forex broker. And, weak volumes reported for April don't necessarily portend for a better Q2. Revenues at GAIN…
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Invast Global, the ASIC-regulated Australian-based arm of leading Japanese brokerage Invast Securities Co. Ltd. (TYO:8709), has announced that it has deepened the liquidity offering of its multi-asset prime services facility PurePrime by adding FX pricing from Lucid Markets. Lucid Markets is a unit of Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR), formerly FXCM Inc. Lucid established itself in 2009…
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It was a week dominated by regulatory issues and financial results in Forex Industry News, with the key stories once again appearing first or exclusively at LeapRate. Our most popular guest posts this past week included: CySEC changes to Investor Compensation Fund: what does it mean for Forex brokers and traders? from MAP S.Platis General…
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Investment firm Leucadia National Corp (NYSE:LUK) has issued its Q1 results report, which included some interesting updates on its $300 million loan to retail forex broker FXCM. Leucadia lent the money to FXCM back in January 2015, enabling FXCM to overcome a $276 million loss it took in the form of unrecoverable negative client balances following…
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One of March's most anticipated forex trading volumes reports is now in, with FXCM reporting a healthy 12% MoM rise in activity. Overall, March volumes came in at $225 billion at FXCM, versus $201 billion in February. (We'd note however that on a daily-average-volume basis, FXCM customer trading activity was actually down 3% MoM in…
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