This will be a week which many in the FX industry won't soon forget, in part because of what didn't happen. After several months of debate and a few more months of waiting, the FCA decided to delay its implementation of new rules governing the leveraged Forex and CFDs sector until at least early 2018. We…
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The shoes continue to drop in the Israel binary options sector. After our earlier exclusive report that rival Anyoption was ceasing all binary options activity - after previously moving all call center and client facing operations out of the country - LeapRate has learned from sources close to the company that TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) is…
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Management changes continued to dominate Forex Industry News this week, with all the key changes reported first or exclusively at LeapRate. In more detailed coverage, we unveiled what seems to be behind the bankruptcy of retail forex broker GCMFX - and it certainly wasn't what the company is claiming. Politics also made its way into…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Jeremy Lange has resigned from binary options platform and brokerage group TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH), and is on his way out of the industry. Lange retains an approximate 10% ownership stake in TechFinancials, a similar percentage to the company's other founders Eyal Alon, Asaf Lahav (CEO), Danny Magen, and Eyal Rosenblum. We…
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It was a holiday shortened week of Forex Industry News, but not too short for a number of important issues and topics you read about only at LeapRate: Which Forex company is the latest recipient of a CySEC CIF license? Which leading broker had its best ever volumes month? Which European central bank took a large…
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LeapRate Exclusive Analysis... Last week's release of 2016 financial results by binary options platform and brokerage group TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) came and went without too much notice or fanfare. Indeed, the market was not too impressed with what TechFinancials had to say as the company's shares traded down by 13% right after the results were…
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Binary options platform provider and broker TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) has announced that it has issued 3,868,615 of its shares to the owners of its joint venture partner, Optionfortune Trade Limited. Optionfortune operates the DragonFinancials binary options broker, focused on Chinese and Far East clients. As we reported in early June, TechFinancials had actually placed the shares in…
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It was another very busy week of Forex Industry News, with LeapRate once again bringing you exclusively the big stories of the week - Pepperstone UK suspending all trading, and ETX Capital making another acquisition. There were also a number of senior personnel moves this week involving ADS Securities, INFINOX, and JFD Brokers. Our most…
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Binary options platform provider and operator TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) has announced that it will receive an additional $1.5 million dividend payout from its DragonFinancials joint venture subsidiary, which focuses on the Asia Pacific region. This follows the $1 million dividend which TechFinancials received from DragonFinancials last November. We had reported last September, when TechFinancials announced…
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Forex Industry News at LeapRate was clearly dominated this past week by the drama surrounding FXCM Inc (NASDAQ:FXCM) after it and its CEO were banned from the company's home US FX market. More of our coverage from the past week follows below. But there was much more. We reported exclusively on the secret talks being…
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