FXCM
This should be the time to tiptoe (very gently) back into the murky twilight that exists between the legal/regulatory profession and markets, but as this column rarely believes in doing anything gently, we’ll just pile right in. Are we at the point where the worm (in the form of the banks and other service providers) […]
FXCM has issued a statement expressing severe disappointment at the charges leveled against the firm by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stating that they are “unprecedented and unwarranted”. The CFTC claims relate to when the Swiss National Bank (SNB) surprised financial markets by announcing in the middle of a trading day that it was discontinuing the […]
Even as FXCM continues to extricate it from a punitive loan that saved the firm, its travails are increasing with news the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged the firm over events surrounding its near collapse in the immediate aftermath of the Swiss National Bank removing its EUR/CHF peg on January 15, 2015. […]
Thomson Reuters, FX Spotstream and FXCM have all reported a month-on-month decline in FX average daily volume (ADV), however the latter two are up on a year-on-year basis. Thomson Reuters says spot volumes across its platforms was $97 billion per day, 8.5% lower from June and 4% down from July 2015. Other volume was $262 […]
