Tuesday, April 3, 2012

UK’s FSA arrests Forex Scammer

UK’s FSA arrests Forex Scammer

UK’s FSA arrests Forex Scammer

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:19 AM PDT

The UK’s financial regulators has arrested a young man believed to be involved in a major Forex scam.

The UK is known to be one of the most well-regulated and strictest locations for financial derivatives.

The arrest was made with the assistance of the City of London Police and a search warrant was also executed at one address in East London. Confirming the arrest, the FSA said the man was suspected of committing offences under the Financial Services and Markets Act … [visit site to read more]

Alpari goes live with Metatrader 5 – an interview with Andrey Vedikhin

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:45 AM PDT

Finally it happened – the forex market was awaiting for the first major broker to go live with MT5 – and today Alpari made the official announcement. Several small brokers are already offering MT5 however everyone in the marketing were waiting for Alpari to start offering it. Alpari is considered the leading Metatrader broker in the market and is a barometer of MT5 attractiveness. The other issue that was preventing … [visit site to read more]

ICE shows volumes growth in March 2012

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:03 AM PDT

The worlds second largest exchange has shown promising trade volumes for the month of March although results were not so strong for its main competitor CME based on quarterly figures.

Intercontinental Exchange, a leading operator of regulated global futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter markets, today reported futures volume and average daily volume for March and the first quarter … [visit site to read more]

CME announces Q1 2012 results – fx volume was lower however improved in March

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 06:08 AM PDT

CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that first-quarter 2012 volume averaged 12.3 million contracts per day, up 5 percent from fourth-quarter 2011, but down 11 percent from first-quarter 2011 – which posted exceptionally strong average daily volume due to the impact of significant unrest in the Middle East and a natural disaster in Japan within the quarter. March 2012 volume averaged 12.5 million contracts per day, down 13 percent from March … [visit site to read more]

OANDA launches fxUnity – its own forex social networking platform

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:58 AM PDT

As if eToro raising $15 million, Currensee raising $2 million and Tradeo raising $1 million was enough to indicate how attractive this space is for brokers and … [visit site to read more]

CME acquires GreenX – an environmental exchange

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 01:09 AM PDT

CME is becoming increasingly aggressive in expanding and increasing its market share. CME is already the largest exchange in terms of FX volumes and in December 2012 reported an average $110 billion average daily volumes.

CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today [visit site to read more]

Decreasing forex volumes – a trend or an opportunity?

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 12:58 AM PDT

Lately newspapers and publications are full of news about falling forex volumes – indeed many reporting brokers such as Gain Capital and ICAP have demonstrated a significant drop in volumes that started in Q4 2011 and continued well into Q1 2012. It seems that many publications that were bullish on the forex market’s growth in past few years are now in the opinion that a one or two quarter’s drop in volumes is an indication of a trend.

They may be partially right, however this only concerns … [visit site to read more]

GallantVPS teams up with Gold-i, launches TradeCloud with ForexClub

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 12:22 AM PDT

Gallant is by far the largest VPS provider to the forex market. VPS allows traders to install trading platforms on remote and secure servers making them accessible from any device connected to the internet and allow trading to run uninterrupted 24 hours a day.

Gallant already works with the likes of Boston Technologies and forex.com and now completed several more key signings.

Gallant VPS a global leader in VPS hosting has signed Gold-i as … [visit site to read more]

Markit acquires Data Explorers

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 12:01 AM PDT

Markit a leading financial information and market data firm has acquired Data Explorers a prominent player in the securities lending market.

The purchase of Data Explorers will provide Markit access to equity and fixed income markets. Markit is owned by the worlds largest banks and is valued at $3 billion.
Markit offers full front office services for data and pricing products, available in all major asset classes including; commodities, CDS, FX, fixed income and … [visit site to read more]
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