FinanceFeeds China met Paul Henry Familiaran, eToro’s Head of Southeast Asia Region, following the company’s $100 million investment round led by China Minsheng Financial.
Are you driven to build your career in FX, and do you care about leadership or status? What goals are important? Progress and dedication, or frivolous spending? We look at a cross section of 2000 FX industry employees to look at what is important to them, with some very interesting results.
And therein lies the heart of the argument – a White Label agreement is truly a two way relationship between counterparties, so each and every efficiency that can be incorporated allows companies like CMC Markets to spend more time helping the partner develop and promote the proposition to their user base, says Tony Cross during a conversation with CMC Markets Institutional Operations Manager Michael O’Sullivan
Forex companies and parties affected by NFA decisions should make sure that they exhaust all administrative solutions first before taking the organization to court.
The debate about counterparty credit crunches among Tier 1 prime brokerage has died down, but the circumstance of gaining prime brokerage agreements remains very much a contentious issue. We look at what the current situation is and what may change in the near future when looking for bank FX liquidity from proper partners
The recent well publicized restrictions from Google and Facebook affecting Financial Trading on currencies and cryptocurrencies will see blockchains with no way to advertise on these platforms and only regulated brokers within their jurisdictions to advertise – excluding affiliates. The odd factor here is that it took pressure from Canada on Google to make this change and not regulators such as FCA, CySec or Bafin, says Nicc Lewis, CEO of Expozive
What matters when setting up your brokerage to connect with liquidity partners? How does a retail platform access the market, and how to brokerages maintain a stable technological environment? FinanceFeeds delves deep into the critical factors that really matter when running a retail FX brokerage and looks at how to structure YOUR trading environment in a fully detailed documentary in the home of retail FX, Limassol, Cyprus.
FXCM’s Special Committee admittedly never adequately investigated the Board’s oversight during the periods covered by the CFTC and NFA investigations.
If an early middle-aged pink faced English man can become the poster boy for an ICO, how can those of us who are more blessed professionally, reputationally and physically be sure that we are not the (un)official figure head of the next online scam, says Paul Orford as his identity is fraudulently abused
FinanceFeeds scrutinizes Maryland District Court filings in the case brought by the USA against Lee Elbaz, the CEO of notorious binary options call center Yukom Communications.
Discerning retail traders are no longer hampered by having to resort to b-book retail shops with inflexible also-ran and marketing-led services, but can, from the comfort of their own living room or whilst on the move, now genuinely emulate the professional trader. We go to Plantation, Florida to meet John Bartleman, President of TradeStation to discuss the company’s move toward a wider audience, complete trading environment modernization and the encompassing of retail traders by one of the world’s most esteemed professional platforms
“I think it’s safe to say that we all understand that in the brokerage world there are numerous strategies at work and they all work around the notion of either A-booking or B-booking clients – or a combination of the two” says Paul Foley when looking at the application of AI in the electronic trading industry
Israeli banks are asking entities owned by dual-nationals and also dual-nationals themselves to hand over all of their details from overseas or face having their accounts blocked. We investigated this in full and what to do if you are an FX firm or technology provider with operations in Israel.
From allowing Chinese IBs to develop their own user experience to serve clients in that region in order to benefit from the local development talent and understanding of the Chinese market to enabling an established Australian money manager to build a simple advisory and information application, Saxo Bank senior developer Benny Boye Johansen looks at how Open Banking increases the value of a combined product range
FX industry senior executive Athol Nourse looks at how a distributed system which renders platforms ‘brokerless’ could counter what he considers to be an old era in which greed overcame most brokerages which led to a degree of tampering with price feeds, pay-out percentages and interfering with customer capital by trading their account to zero or even blocking withdrawals
The generic usage of the word ‘blockchain’ across many media sites which are equally as generic has recently accelerated from…
London’s non-bank prime of prime sector picks up on human traders adding value in the face of study that shows 75% of rapid appreciation of the CHF was created by bank algos
Paul Foley of Cyprus based management consultancy TCG explains the important considerations that brokerages should prioritize, extending across IT, project management and commercial governance
Leverate’s Adinah Brown looks at how the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, was particularly outspoken against the futures, stating that bitcoin is a “fraud”. He went on to state that anyone “stupid enough” to purchase it will ultimately “pay the price for it one day.”
