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Following their earnings report, FXCM held its conference call presentation. You can check out the entire transcript of the call here. Below are areas that were of focus in the prepared presentation and Q&A session. Revenues per million: Although Q1 …
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FXCM has just posted its first quarter financial results. During the quarter, the broker achieved US GAAP net income of $6.9 million ($0.23/share) on revenues of $122.9 million. The results met analyst expectations. The top line figures were 20% above …
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Following last week’s earnings and revenue miss from FXCM, the broker held its conference call. As expected after their Citi Financial Services Conference Presentation last week, the call was devoted towards positive trends taking place for FXCM in 2013 and …
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Shares of FXCM closed higher by 5% yesterday to close at 9.49 after the forex broker beat analyst expectations in its Q3 earnings report and posted EPS of $0.17 versus forecasts of $0.15. Highlights of the quarter included a 25% increase …
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Several media outlets have reported today that Thomson Reuters is looking into the FX trades of Lucid Markets, one of its clients on the Thomson Reuters Matching platform. The issue reportedly relates to whether or not Lucid used multiple connections …
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Across the FX world trade volumes were significantly lower from June 2012 and July 2011. The negative market sentiment has been prevalent across the summer as represented by August figures. Despite the negativity US based financial service providers managed to show a …
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As every month (almost) CFTC releases some data that is being reported to it by its FCMs (including forex brokers). From this month we’ll start surveying all brokers who hold ‘retail forex funds’, not just forex brokers per-se as we …
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Credit Suisse teams up with FXCM in launching FastMatch the new ECN forex platform
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FXCM and CS partner in co-developing a new institutional platform for forex traders. FastMatch ECN utilizes Credit Suisse’s equities matching engine and FXCM’s forex institutional contacts and experience and strives to deliver a technological advantage for forex traders including brokers, banks and …
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FXCM just made a huge move forward in its forray into the institutional forex market by acquiring Lucid Markets, the secretive institutional fx market maker. Lucid is considered to be one of the biggest market makers and feed providers in …
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