Retail FX broker FXCM has reported its trading volume metrics for April 2018, which was the company's slowest month so far in 2018, although in line with what we have seen at several of the other leading online brokers. Overall, retail FX trading volumes were down 12% MoM from March to $184 billion, the first…
Read moreInvestment company Leucadia National Corp (NYSE:LUK) - which is in the process of rebranding itself to Jefferies Financial Group - has issued its 10Q quarterly report for Q1-2018, providing an update among other things on its outstanding loan to Retail FX broker FXCM Group. In the big picture, Leucadia reported that to date (as of March…
Read moreWell, it looks like FXCM is going to soon get another logo change. Just several weeks after it rebranded by incorporating the name of its controlling parent company Leucadia National Corp (NYSE:LUK) into its own logo, FXCM is now looking at a new logo as Leucadia itself is rebranding. Leucadia announced today a number of strategic…
Read moreRetail FX broker FXCM continued its strong start to 2018, although March wasn't quite as good as January or February. FXCM reported client trading volumes of $210 billion for March 2018, 12% below February's $239 billion. Keeping in mind, however, that January and February were FXCM's best months since the February 2017 crisis which saw FXCM exit the…
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Retail FX broker FXCM continued its strong start to 2018, reporting overall FX trading volumes of $239 billion. That ranks just 4% below January's $250 billion, but given that February had fewer trading days than January (20 versus 22), February's $12.0 billion average daily volume was actually 5% above January. Keeping in mind, that January…
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Some interesting disclosures in the just-filed annual report "10-K" form from investment company Leucadia National Corp (NYSE:LUK) have shed some more light on Leucadia's loan to Retail FX broker FXCM. Leucadia made a $300 million emergency rescue loan to FXCM in January 2015, after FXCM took heavy losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars from…
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Leucadia National Corp. (NYSE:LUK) released its fourth quarter and full year 2017 results yesterday, along with management's annual Letter to Shareholders, which gave more insight into how different parts of the business and certain investments have fared. One of the more interesting disclosures of the Letter was news that the company was already well "in…
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LeapRate Exclusive... If anyone had any doubt as to who was in charge and calling the shots at Retail FX broker FXCM Group, after FXCM had distanced itself from one-time controlling shareholder Global Brokerage Inc (OTCMKTS:GLBR), well those questions should be clearly answered now. As we have written and explained several times ever since Leucadia National Corp (NYSE:LUK)…
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FX brokerage holding company Global Brokerage Inc (OTCMKTS:GLBR), formerly known as FXCM Inc, has announced that it has successfully completed its prepackaged plan of reorganization, and has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The effective date of its prepackaged Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of was confirmed by Bankruptcy Judge Michael E. Wiles on January 22, 2018,…
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