Tickmill on the Prowl and eToro Wins Big with Bitcoin - Best of the Week

This week some of the biggest stories in the retail currency trading industry involved the evolving ecosystem of digital instruments and online trading platforms. We also saw yet another regulator looking for ways to limit the binary options industry.

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It wasn't in the cards

On Monday we reported that YJFX!, the retail forex broker owned by Yahoo Japan Corporation (TYO:4689), is terminating its social trading offering ‘Trade Collector’.

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Tickmill is looking for acquisition targets

On Tuesday FX and CFDs brokerage Tickmill shared exclusively with Finance Magnates its results for the full year 2016. The company is reporting a sharp rise in revenues, about three times higher than those of 2015.

The company is looking to continue growing both organically and via acquisitions and partnerships. Tickmill is also aiming to expand its Introducing Broker (IB) network and is projecting to post between $600 and $650 billion of full year trading volumes in 2017.

Canada vs binary options

On Wednesday the news broke that national Canadian financial regulators are on their way to propose a ban on the advertising, offering, selling and trading of binary options in Canada.

Commenting on the matter, the Chair of the CSA and CEO of the Canadian AMF said: “We are deeply concerned by the increasing number of investor losses and complaints resulting from binary options. The proposed ban is critical to our efforts to help stop binary options fraud in Canada.”

Cryptocurrency is the future of forex

On Thursday, as bitcoin and its derivatives were setting new records, eToro reported an incredible increase in both the relative number of users trading Cryptocurrencies Cryptocurrencies By using cryptography, virtual currencies, known as cryptocurrencies, are nearly counterfeit-proof digital currencies that are built on blockchain technology. Comprised of decentralized networks, blockchain technology is not overseen by a central authority.Therefore, cryptocurrencies function in a decentralized nature which theoretically makes them immune to government interference. The term, cryptocurrency derives from the origin of the encryption techniques that are employed to secure the netw By using cryptography, virtual currencies, known as cryptocurrencies, are nearly counterfeit-proof digital currencies that are built on blockchain technology. Comprised of decentralized networks, blockchain technology is not overseen by a central authority.Therefore, cryptocurrencies function in a decentralized nature which theoretically makes them immune to government interference. The term, cryptocurrency derives from the origin of the encryption techniques that are employed to secure the netw Read this Term, and the total volume of cryptocurrencies traded on the platform.

Mati Greenspan, Senior Markets Analyst at eToro, said: “Cryptocurrency is the future of forex. And over the last 12 months we’ve seen a 4x growth in traders accessing this market. But the volume of trading has exploded even more than this, with a huge 4,500% jump.

Protrader expands

On Friday we reported that PFSOFT, a developer of brokerage solutions, has deployed a native version of the Protrader platform for Apple's Mac OS.

Earlier in the week, the company also made news after it expanded its pool of analytical tools for its PTMC solutions suite. Brokers who use Protrader will now be able to connect it to Reuters’ MetaStock - which covers news, analytics, and fundamentals.