January 10, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff
Gain Capital grants $7.5 million of stock to Directors and Senior Executives
More than half the grant worth about $4.7 million went to CEO Glenn Stevens.
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January 08, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff
Gain Capital CMO Samantha Roady gets $1.2M in GCAP stock, sells $380K
In an SEC filing Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has indicated that its CMO Samantha Roady, who technically holds the title of Chief Commercial Officer, recently received a grant totaling more than 131,000 GCAP shares worth about $1.2 million. After receiving the grant, Roady sold 42,000 of the shares on January 5 and 6, pocketing more than…
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January 08, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff
GAIN Capital acquisition of Galvan Research - $16.6 million
Commissions from UK CFD trading advisor Galvan already contributed $2.3 million to Gain Capital revenues in Q3 last year.
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January 05, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff
FXCM and Gain Capital rise while equities, oil and Euro all dive
The first real trading day of 2015 (not counting the light post New Years session on Friday) saw the year kick off in the red Monday, and with heightened volatility across all instrument types: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) dropped 331 points and the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) was off 37, marking a more-than 1.8% fall…
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January 02, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff
LeapRate's Forex industry predictions for 2015
IPOs, industry consolidation and major website makeovers highlight our list of how the industry will continue to evolve in the new year.
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December 31, 2014 BY LeapRate Staff
LeapRate's Top Forex Industry News Stories of 2014
It has been quite a year in the forex industry in 2014. We're exiting the year with near-record volatility in key currency pairs such as the EURUSD and EURCHF, as well as Yen and Ruble pairs. The USD is at multi-year highs, while Crude Oil is at multi-year lows. Valuations of publicly traded forex brokers…
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December 22, 2014 BY Mike Fox
GAIN Capital shares pop 6% Monday on positive analyst comments
Investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods raises earnings estimates for both GAIN Capital and FXCM, citing the higher-volatility environment.
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December 18, 2014 BY LeapRate Staff
GAIN Capital extends board rights of VC investor VantagePoint
After losing longtime investor Edison Partners which distributed its 13.5% GCAP position to its own LP investors earlier this month, retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has extended the board rights of its other major outside investor, venture capital firm VantagePoint Ventures. VantagePoint owns nearly 22% of GAIN Capital's shares, currently worth around $86…
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December 17, 2014 BY Mike Fox
How are Forex brokers EBS and Gain Capital trading on ruble?
With the ruble drama gathering steam in December and particularly this week, we have seen ruble dealers slash their leverage and also completely pull out of dealing in the currency, which isn't a huge generator of volume to begin with but still causing a big enough shakeup for brokers to issue statements to traders. With…
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December 15, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod
Edison Partners completes exit from GAIN Capital with 17-fold return on investment
Edison Partners, one of GAIN Capital’s original investors invested approximately $3.5 million in 2001, exiting now with a 17x return on original investment.
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