Tag: Leverate

September 05, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

The reason traders will stay at your Forex brokerage

For most Forex brokers, their biggest cost is Client Acquisition. So once you have the clients in-house, the last thing you want to do is lose them. So how do you retain clients? With so much choice out there, why will traders stay at your brokerage? Ben Richter, Head of Institutional Sales at Leverate takes…

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August 30, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Are Binary Options brokers running out of options?

This article was written by Yael Warman, Content Manager at Leverate. That the binary option market suffers from a terrible reputation is a well-worn story, however, what is less well-known is that the industry is adapting, finding new markets and sustaining the damage wrought upon them by the unrelenting bad press. No doubt, smaller brokers…

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August 28, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Industry Week Review: Leverate exits binary options, FXDD-IronFX merger, Swissquote's new brand, and lots more…

It was a very mixed bag of Forex Industry News this past week at LeapRate. Companies exiting business lines, companies entering business lines, M&A, new logos and brands... Our most popular guest posts this week dealt with two important questions: What is your Company’s Content Brand? by MediaGroup's Bart Burggraaf, and How much does downtime really…

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August 25, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Leverate exits Binary Options business, selling its BX8 platform product - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that online trading platforms provider Leverate has stopped selling its BX8 Binary Options platform product. Leverate is continuing to support BX8 for the binary options brokers who are already running it. We've learned from industry sources that Leverate is looking to sell the BX8 platform, along with the current clients running…

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August 23, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Retail Forex Brokers: Where to expand?

One of the key questions Forex broker CEOs are always asking themselves is: Where to Next? Yael Warman from Leverate takes a look at a few of the areas where Forex brokers are looking to increase their footprint. Geo-Expansion – A World of Possibilities For FX firms in the Western hemisphere, the marketplace is becoming…

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August 15, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

How to Become a Part-Time Trader

This article was written by Yael Warman, Content Manager at Leverate. The world of FX moves fast and is open for trading 5 days a week, 24 hours a day. As such, it would seem that trading is best left to the professionals or those people who are available to buy and sell currency pairs…

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August 09, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Mobile marketing for Retail Forex brokerages

Mobile marketing. Engaging with users on mobile devices. It is something which everyone in the Forex world wants to do better, but not all actually accomplish. Leverate's Yael Warman takes a look at what Retail Forex brokers should know. With FX brokerages having focused extensively on the trading platforms suited for computers and tablets, trading…

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