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CFTC Posts May FCM Financials – Advanced Markets Out, Whotrades FX is In
- The CFTC has posted financials for FCMs as of the end of May. Total Retail Forex Funds were $644,593,164, a drop of $3,166,759 (-0.49%) from the end of April. The decline was mainly the result of a near $9 million drop at Oanda,
Thursday, 11/07/2013 | 10:00 GMT by
Ron Finberg
As New Rules Go Into Effect, Advanced Markets Swaps NFA For ASIC Regulation
- Deciding it’s not worth the $20,000,000 minimums; Advanced Markets has also officially withdrawn all of its licenses with the NFA. As of June 28th, the broker withdrew both its FCM license and NFA membership.
Thursday, 11/07/2013 | 09:16 GMT by
Ron Finberg
Traiana Announces Twelve FCMs are Live on their Harmony Network for Exchange Traded Derivatives
- Post trading flow solutions provider, Traiana, has announced that twelve FCMs are now connected on its Harmony Network for Exchange Traded Derivatives . Traiana added that “ there has been a rapid uptake of buy-side hedge funds and asset managers".
Tuesday, 25/06/2013 | 09:04 GMT by
Ron Finberg
CFTC Reports April FCM Data – FXCM Rises and OANDA Declines
- The CFTC reported April financial data for reporting FCMs. For forex firms, there was very little change, as total Retail Forex Funds dropped $177,260 to $647,759,923. Among gainers, FXCM saw account growth of $4.9 million
Thursday, 13/06/2013 | 08:00 GMT by
Ron Finberg
Looking for a Job? The NFA is Hiring
- The NFA has announced that they approved their Fiscal Year 2014 budget. The budget, for the fiscal year which starts on July, 1 2013 is for $74 million, an 18% increase above last year, with the majority going towards new hiring
Thursday, 06/06/2013 | 20:16 GMT by
Ron Finberg
‘Pay Up - $1.5 Million’ CFTC Orders FCStone
- A leading US futures brokerage has received a penalty by the CFTC after failing to maintain systems and controls that could have prevented the firm in making a loss of $127 million during the global recession.
Thursday, 30/05/2013 | 07:12 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
CFTC Figures for FCMs: Increase Over February, Decrease Over January
- The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has released FCM financial data for March 2013. Among individual names, GAIN Capital was the biggest mover upside, aided by the broker's acquiring of FX Solutions' client base.
Tuesday, 21/05/2013 | 06:17 GMT by
Andrew Saks McLeod
MB Trading Fined $200,000 For Failing to Maintain Minimal Capital Requirements
- United States financial regulator fines MB Trading a FX broker for failing to meet minimal capital requirements. The broker had miss-appropriated funds for 17 months after the new rules were mandated.
Tuesday, 14/05/2013 | 22:05 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
CFTC Posts February FCM Financials - Easy Forex Exits the US
Friday, 12/04/2013 | 07:06 GMT by
Ron Finberg
NFA Announces June 30 Date for New Capital Requirements of FCMs Acting as a Counterparty to Forex Transactions
Thursday, 11/04/2013 | 09:09 GMT by
Ron Finberg
November FCM Data Shows FXDD & GFT Fall Below Net Capital Requirements
Tuesday, 15/01/2013 | 08:53 GMT by
Ron Finberg
CFTC Proposes New Regulations to Enhance Customer Protection
Tuesday, 23/10/2012 | 14:39 GMT by
Ron Finberg
New NFA Rulings to Segregated Accounts - Go Live Date 1st September 2012
Wednesday, 29/08/2012 | 06:40 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
June 2012 CFTC FCM report reveals interesting facts
Monday, 06/08/2012 | 20:24 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
Bring Back the Self in Self Regulation - New Rules for FCM's
Thursday, 26/07/2012 | 00:24 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
CFTC extends final date for Conflict of Interest Rules for FCMs and IBs
Tuesday, 05/06/2012 | 13:47 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
CFTC releases August 2011 financial data - total US forex deposits up $19 million
- Every month or so CFTC releases financial data for its members. In the past year or so CFTC also releases the total amount of retail forex obligations for retail forex brokers (under FCMRFD and RFED statuses) which shows us how much 'retail money' is held by US forex brokers.
Tuesday, 11/10/2011 | 22:25 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
CFTC Charges Accounting Firm McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, and Partner David Shane with Failure to Properly Audit One World Capital Group
- It's extremely interesting to see CFTC taking the oversight of its members one step further by going after not only its member firms but even after their auditors - if those failed to do their job. CFTC just charged an accounting firm and one of its partners for failing to properly audit One World Capital Group - a former forex broker which ceased its operations in 2007. This adds to CFTC's aggressive pursuit of even completely foreign firms which it perceives as breaking its rules.
Friday, 23/09/2011 | 03:56 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
CFTC releases Q2 2011 financial data - overall retail forex deposits are $9 million lower
- CFTC requires all its members to submit their own capital reports and for members (RFEDs and FCMs) the amount of retail forex obligations. For some reason this report wasn't made public since April and now CFTC made available the monthly reports for May, June and July. This allows us to track the amount of retail forex obligations for all US retail forex brokers.
Thursday, 11/08/2011 | 07:29 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
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