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If you are going to buy out another company, make sure to use the words accretive. That was the story during FXCM’s conference call where they discussed their proposed acquisition for Gain Capital. Following the call, and with US markets …
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FXCM has released the slide deck for its upcoming conference call where the broker will explain the details and benefits of its proposed acquisition of rival GAIN Capital. The presentation provides a transaction overview, benefits to GAIN Capital shareholders and …
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M&A activity is usually a sign of bull moves in the equity markets but signs of concern in the FX and CFD space. London-based financial services broker LCG has had difficult results in 2012 in line with the market. There …
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Launching this month is tradingwheels, a new product from Rogue Red that is headed by industry veteran Matthew Carstens. Quoting Carstens, “tradingwheels is like training wheels for developing traders.” The product aims to provide traders the ability to experience the …
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I guess we have reached the point that it’s no longer a matter of if as much as when major brokers will launch a Social Trading network. Following on the trend, Alpari becomes the newest member of brokers providing a …
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GFT announced to their clients on Monday that they are shutting down the US (and Japan) business and put out a notice on their website. The company also later announced that it will transfer accounts to TD Ameritrade however this …
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Along with most of the industry, GAIN Capital’s Q3 earnings release revealed steep declines versus 2011 levels. Low levels of FX market volatility were cited as the main driver of the weakness in GAIN’s results. Highlighting the positive though, the …
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In 2010 and 2011, the trend among forex brokers was to advertise a no dealing desk ECN products (or at least say they were providing one). For 2012 though, spreads and executions are taking stage. Take a look at the …
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US futures broker Open E Cry, which was purchased earlier this year by GAIN Capital has recently launched mobile trading through an APP powered by technology provider iBroker. The iBroker APP which is available for both IOS and Android phones …
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