Author Archives: Michael Greenberg
ActForex one of the largest independent forex platform software providers has just released its FXApps store. FXApps store operates in a similar way to Apple’s App Store and can be accessed from ActForex’s platform. I caught up with Ilya Sorokin – ActForex’s CEO:
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NFA is doing an amazingly effective job at spitting in the well it drinks from. In fact NFA behaves not as a regulator but as a controlling shareholder of its members – as it basically does whatever it wants when it comes to requirements and ‘membership’ fees. NFA just declared a new ‘dividend’ for itself by aggressively raising membership fees which for some strange reason will now be in the region of 2% of forex broker’s gross (!) revenue instead of being a flat yearly fee like up until now. To the best of my knowledge NFA is the only forex dictator regulator charging percentage of volume and/or revenue instead of just charging same membership fee from everyone.
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Tradency just announced that they scored a major deal for their Mirror Trader platform and will launch it with Invast Securities in Japan. The whole concept of MT4 and algo-trading in forex is relatively fresh in Japan and just started to pick up. This puts Tradency and the more aggressive foreign MT4 brokers in pole position to take a nice cut of the local market share if this trend continues.
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Apparently major banks and broker dealers are already preparing themselves for the Greek withdrawal from Eurozone and a return to Greek Drachma scenario as according to multiple reports ICAP and others are testing their electronic trading platforms.
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It seems infographics are becoming very popular with forex brokers who’d like to enlighten traders about certain aspects of the forex market. We’ve had those from Pepperstone, IBFX and OANDA this year. Now comes Saxo Bank with a pretty cool infographic and accompanying video.
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360T acquires Finotec, rebrands it as FinBird Trading Systems; to enter retail forex
24
2011
360T is an institutional multi-product platform provider. For Spot FX trading products 360T caters mostly to banks, broker dealers and others. For years 360T was just one of the several available fx institutional platforms competing for same clients and until now was only tracking other competitors like Currenex who were able to penetrate the retail forex market through its White Label offerings.
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As announced here last week FXStreet just launched the beta of its Forex Studies page. The page is fully customizable so if you have an accounts with FXStreet you can play around with it and save your preferred look. You can access it here: http://www.fxstreet.com/forex-studies/demo.aspx
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Federal Court Orders Forex Dealer Jacob Juma Omukwe to Pay over $2.6 Million for Forex Scheme
23
2011
Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained a supplemental consent order requiring defendants Jacob Juma Omukwe and his companies, JadeFX, LTD (JadeFX) and Jade Investments Group, LLC (Jade), jointly and severally to pay over $2.6 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties to settle a CFTC anti-fraud enforcement action filed in March 2011.
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GFT Markets, a worldwide leader in forex, contracts for differences (CFDs), financial spread betting, binary trading, and FX options is pleased to announce that its DealBook® platform has received the prestigious award for “Best Online Trading Platform” by Shares Magazine, the leading weekly publication for active traders in the United Kingdom.
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