PROFIT & LOSS Special Report ─ November 2008

Retail FX in 2008

Retail FX Special Report

Contents:

  • Bucking the Downturn: Banks and Brokers Adding Retail FX
  • MF Global Upgrades Retail FX Platform
  • Retail FX and Asia
  • The Regulation of Retail Forex: Retail Forex in the US – The Little Market That Could
  • FX Options : Alternative Strategies for Multi-Asset Class Trading
  • Florida FX Scams Leave Trail of Losses: CFTC Acts to Shore Up the Industry
  • Retail Radar Briefs

Retail Radar News (archive)

Around the World

FXCM Opens Shop in Athens

Monday 8th March 2010

Forex Capital Markets has opened a branch office in Athens, Greece run by Harry Coundouris, managing director of FXCM Hellas. The office is the sixth that FXCM has opened since January 2009, after Paris, Sydney, Dubai, Milan, and Santiago. Clients of FXCM Hellas will be provided with FXCM Trading Station,...
Technology

Gain Capital Teams with StreamBase for Trading Algorithms

Monday 8th March 2010

Gain Capital has teamed up with complex event processing (CEP) technology company StreamBase Systems to offer mutual clients a service to help them quickly deploy foreign exchange high-frequency trading algorithms. The partnership combines StreamBase’s CEP platform with a direct adapter to Gain GTX, Gain Capital’s recently launched ECN trading...
Technology

Currensee Grabs $8m to Expand FX Trading Social Network

Wednesday 24th February 2010

Currensee, a social network for foreign exchange traders, has secured $8 million in series B financing to expand its presence in the UK, Europe and Asia and to continue the development of several new products. The financing led by North Bridge Venture Partners brings the total round of funding in...
Merge

First Derivatives Completes Purchase of Cognotec

Sunday 21st February 2010

Financial software firm First Derivatives announced last week that it had bought FX technology company Cognotec Holdings out of receivership for $4.7 million. The deal marks the final chapter in the 20-year history of Cognotec, which was set up by controversial businessman Brian Maccaba and hailed as one of the...
Technology

Gain Capital Upgrades Forex.com

Sunday 21st February 2010

Gain Capital has revamped its flagship trading platform Forex.com, adding web and mobile trading capabilities and education resources for retail traders. New resources include a full library of video tutorials, training modules, articles and other content, as well as an expanded schedule of webinars and events. The new site...
Around the World

China Dumps Treasuries? US Fiscal Crisis Imminent? Not so Fast.

Wednesday 17th February 2010

I sent a copy of Martin Wolf’s article on Niall Ferguson’s Chicken Little call on the US fiscal imbalance for a reason. I think some in the financial press and markets are only armed with a hammer and everything in sight looks like a nail (no pun intended –...
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