Innovative algorithmic trading platform cAlgo is now integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio in order to provide ability to apply changes directly to cAlgo from Visual Studio.
Read moreHuge undertaking by the end of this year, will have consolidated more than 30 platforms into one client offering Simons Griffin Financial today announces the roll-out of Simons Griffin Financial Markets, the firm's new multi-asset class trading platform, bringing pre-trade, trade and post-trade functionality onto a single platform for the first time. Debuting with a…
Read moreIn addition he will be a member of the Board Management alongside Saxo’s co-CEO’s Leading European forex and CFD brokerage Saxo Bank has announced that it is aiming to consolidate its organizational structure and strengthen its business with a new appointment of a Global Head of Finance and Risk Operations. Steen Blaafalk is joining the…
Read moreTradable's unique app platform environment goes on to gain further popularity FCA regulated, Cyprus headquartered forex broker Iron FX, has announced that it is joining the likes of GAIN Capital/Forex.com (NYSE:GCAP), Monex Japan, Monex Indonesia and the recently added Australian IC Markets in providing the Tradable store of apps to their clients. Up until now…
Read moreAriel also adds former former E*TRADE UK CEO Julian Costley to its board. Spread betting, forex, and CFDs platform provider Ariel Communications went through some turmoil earlier this year, with the resignation of its longtime CEO Angus Clacher. Well it seems as if the company has come roaring back, in both strengthening its management team and adding a…
Read moreJanno Teelem headed up product development teams for Apple-related products at Skype. Trading apps platform company Tradable has announced the hiring of a new Chief Product Officer, Janno Teelem. Teelem joins Tradable from Microsoft, where he headed the Mac engineering team for Skype products. Microsoft of course bought Skype from eBay for $8.5 billion in…
Read moreSaxo Bank launches mobile version of the main commercial website. Saxo Bank, one of the world's largest retail FX firms (and a member of LeapRate's Approved List of global FX brokerages), has just released a new mobile-optimized version of its main website, m.saxobank.com. Saxo Bank reports that about 10% of visitors to its website now…
Read moreMore mobile trading has somewhat reversed trend of move to desktop traders. While desktop traders still dominate the FX trading landscape, the fact that traders are more and more using mobile devices -- both smartphones and tablets -- has re-increased the importance of web traders to the typical retail FX trader. (And has also resulted…
Read moreCompetition increases for new novice traders. Moscow-based FX Club, which recently exited the US retail FX market and was assessed a $300,000 fine by the U.S. regulator NFA, today introduced a new trading platform called StartFX 2 targeted specifically at novice traders, having little previous trading experience. The StartFX 2 platform will have basic trading functionality,…
Read moreBinary Options market heating up, as brokers look to add new products. Binary options, digital options and financial spreadbetting have been around for a long time. However most Forex brokerage firms have avoided offering such trading to their clients, as win-it-all-or-lose-it-all trading has been (correctly) viewed as closer to gambling than it is to trading…
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