Forex Factory is stepping up its development efforts lately in order to regain its status as world's largest forex website. In Q2-3 2011 FF suffered from decline in traffic however managed to regain most of the drop in Q4 as seen in the latest media survey published in the Forex Magnates Q4 2011 Industry Report.

Wednesday, 25/01/2012 | 10:17 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

FXCM announces the launch of its own MT4 platform

FXCM and Boston Technologies parted ways some time ago after a lengthy and what seems an intense relationship. Reading between the lines of FXCM and BT's releases it seems the relationship didn't end well.

Tuesday, 24/01/2012 | 14:42 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

Ava FX receives ASIC approval, launches Australian office

Ava FX just announced that it was authorized by ASIC to start operating in Australia. Ava Capital Markets Australia will offer Ava's trading services to local and Asian traders. Australia has quickly become a major center for forex brokers trying to tap the Asian markets.

Tuesday, 24/01/2012 | 13:30 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

FXOptimax launches its own social network

FXOptimax, a small broker based in New Zealand, just announced the launch of several interesting features. Most interesting of them all is its own light version of a social network called Pipsbook.

Tuesday, 24/01/2012 | 08:33 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

Q4 2011 Forex Magnates Forex Industry Report is Available

Monday, 23/01/2012 | 12:37 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Analysis

Forex Magnates launches new design and a comprehensive Forex Directory

Monday, 23/01/2012 | 11:36 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Exchanges

Hotspot's December 2012 volumes plummet, 2011 volume rose 60%

As experienced by all brokers (Retail and Institutional) across the board HotSpot's volumes too plummeted in December 2011. We've seen this reported by FXCM, CME and others.

Friday, 20/01/2012 | 10:31 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

Forex Magnates is nominated in the FXStreet's person of the 2011 Year shortlist

Friday, 20/01/2012 | 09:33 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

US forex brokers profitability report for Q4 2011 shows steep drop in number of US accounts amid increase in traders' profitability

US retail forex industry is now showing obvious signs of slow down with number of non-discretionary retail forex accounts held with US based reporting brokers down to record 97,206. This is the lowest count reported since Q3 2010 when first such report was released.

Wednesday, 18/01/2012 | 18:53 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

BNY Mellon reaches partial settlement in its civil suit

As was reported only a week ago BNY Mellon which was expected to settle has indeed partially settled the civil lawsuit launched against it by the NY States Attorney. As part of the settlement agreement BNY agrees to actually disclose how it executes transactions, refrain from certain representations and provide a comparison mechanism for pricing.

Wednesday, 18/01/2012 | 12:18 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

FXCM reports December 2011 monthly metrics

FXCM just reported its December 2011 metrics and also metrics for the full 2011 year. As expected volume in December was substantially lower than in November. The reason for this is both the holidays slowdown and relatively low volatility in the currency markets. December 2011 was more than 20% higher than December 2010 which shows FXCM's year on year growth.

Tuesday, 17/01/2012 | 21:38 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Technology

Leverate obtains CySec license

Just like Boston Technologies announced FSA license for its Boston Prime prime brokerage two weeks ago so just did Leverate with a CySec license. We announced that Leverate is about to obtain such a license on our Linkedin group few days ago.

Tuesday, 17/01/2012 | 10:05 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

Plimus to stop processing forex related products

Plimus is one of the largest processing and affiliate networks on the internet. Plimus rivals Clickbank, the biggest affiliates processing network, in processing various e-commerce digital products like ebooks, games, mobile apps and more. Those networks rival the large number of affiliate that use their services to further promote products offered through their sites.

Monday, 16/01/2012 | 13:04 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Technology

Metatrader5 receives Singapore Mercantile Exchange certification

Metaquotes launches Metatrader5 as its big hope in breaking into the exchanges market. Metatrader5 in general wasn't supposed to replace Metatrader4 but help Metaquotes tap the exchanges market while in parallel continuing to control the retail forex one. Metatrader5 is still a buggy product and is more than a year in beta without any significant forex broker launching it live. It is available for live trading at couple of small brokers.

Friday, 13/01/2012 | 12:14 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

US retail forex capital grew by $3 million in November 2011

US retail forex capital held by FCMs, RFEDs and FCMRFDs - per CFTC's definitions - grew by most $3 million in November. These deposits describe the amount of retail forex funds held by American brokers - this may include funds not only from American clients.

Friday, 13/01/2012 | 11:59 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

CFTC issues an injunction against InstaTrade Corporation and ZTRADEFX LLC

Instatrade Corporation, aka Insta Forex, and Ztradefx LLC were two of the 14 firms sued by the CFTC early last year. Ever since most firms didn't bother to settle with the CFTC but some did. Last week we saw that FXOpen settled the case with the CFTC paying $140,000 fine.

Thursday, 12/01/2012 | 13:59 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

BNY Mellon may settle as part of the Federal Forex suit

After months of controversy surrounding issues over foreign exchange transactions, BNY Mellon, the world's largest custody bank, is continuing to work toward a settlement as part of a lawsuit filed by federal prosecutors.

Thursday, 12/01/2012 | 13:37 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Brokers

FXCM launches Canadian offering through Friedberg Direct

Wednesday, 11/01/2012 | 21:50 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Analysis

myfxbook launches a spreads comparison engine

We reported about this trend almost two years ago here as we've noticed an influx of sites with various spread comparison engines. One of the first to enter the market was FX Intelligence which managed to place itself on several broker websites like MB Trading's and others. The conclusion two years ago was this:

Tuesday, 10/01/2012 | 14:11 GMT by Michael Greenberg

Technology

BT Prime Receives FSA Authorization and Announces Name Change to Boston Prime

This is the official announcement by BT regarding what was announced here last week: Boston Technologies prime brokerage arm BT Prime received an FSA license. BT is also renaming BT Prime to Boston Prime - definitely a more attractive name. The new license will allow BT to start accepting more established clients who'll want to tap into its liquidity and thus increase its volume.

Tuesday, 10/01/2012 | 10:37 GMT by Michael Greenberg

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