Author Archives: Michael Greenberg
ICAP today published its interim management statement and in it we can see that its electronic broking volumes are slowing down. ICAP’s voice broking volumes on the other hand are surprisingly going back up. The third quarter ended 31 December 2011 was …
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Retail Forex Market Volume Q4 2011 – Japan’s decline puts pressure on global volumes
1
2012
The last quarter of 2011 was as quiet as the second one — the most volatility during 2011 was experienced in Q1 (Japan’s Tsunami) and Q3 (Euro Zone’s instability). In Japan especially, volumes were relatively low as the Yen traded in a narrow band, …
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VT Systems now starts marketing VT Trader as a standalone trading platform. VT is an extremely advanced and flexible platform and it’s a shame it still didn’t get the recognition it deserves. CMS Forex was exclusively offering VT Trader to …
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CFTC – MF Global’s collapse didn’t happen because of a lack of regulation, NFA ponders segregation rules
31
2012
In an interesting speech given by Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia at the Center on Financial Services Law, of New York Law School quite a few interesting things were said and although O’Malia didn’t think the CFTC is to blame for MF Global’s …
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markets.com which has been pretty aggressive in terms of broker acquisitions (Finexo and ForexYard to name a few) is now making a step into the technology arena by acquiring certain key assets and employees of Strategy Runner. Strategy Runner itself …
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US Treasury Department reconsiders exempting Forex from OTC Derivatives Regulations
30
2012
En route to an official visit to Israel, Neal Wolin, the US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Department commented that the treasury dept is currently debating whether or not to exempt FX products from new U.S. derivatives regulation that would force …
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Saxo Bank, through Saxo Capital Markets Australia or SCM Australia in short (I strongly recommend Saxo people to abandon the SCM abbreviation as some people may misread it) just announced the launch of Saxo’s retail operations in Australia. Only last week we …
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Although this was known as a requirement for a while now especially after NFA fined FXCM in 2011 and Gain Capital in 2010 now this rule has become formal. NFA is currently busy auditing most of forex brokers trying to …
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Who knew Kindle was so exciting? I certainly didn’t and always thought it was that black and white book reading mobile device. Apparently people at Riflexo know their stuff and released what may actually be the first (and only) forex …
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