UK Regulator Raises Alarm on Clone of LCGOn Wednesday, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) warned investors against a clone of London Capital Group (LCG), an authorized spread betting and CFD trading provider. The British watchdog said the clone has been contacting British citizens, pretending to have requisite permission. According to the FCA, the scam platform operates the websites: www.cintra.group/, www.londoncapitalgroup.pro […]

BGC Partners, a major financial technology and brokerage firm, released its first quarter 2023 metrics on Wednesday, reporting a marginal increase in its consolidated revenue from forex trading. The revenue rose 0.2% to $80.2 million (or 1% in constant currency), compared to the first quarter of 2022. FX Generates Smallest Revenue GrowthThe revenue boost was the least among all asset […]

Admirals, an Estonia-based retail FX and CFDs broker, has expanded its presence in Africa with the opening of new offices in Lagos, Nigeria. The firm announced the development on Monday, noting that it decided to establish its physical presence in the West African country after it received “significant traction from traders in Nigeria.”Admirals Expands Presence in AfricaThe launch comes months […]

Retail FX and CFDs brokers, Tastytrade and LiteFinance on Monday separately disclosed new updates about their brokerage business. While the former launched an application programming interface (API), the latter released a ‘new and improved’ version of its mobile trading application for iOS devices.Tastytrade Introduces ‘tastytrade-API’Tastytrade explained that the new interface tagged ‘tastytrade-API’ offers its users the ability to “build software […]

Nigeria’s securities regulator has flagged down six online trading platforms for operating in the country without authorization. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) listed the platforms in a recent statement published on its website.According to the watchdog, the platforms are Prime Invest (https://webtrader.pinvest.cc/), FXBoxed (https://account.fxboxed.com/) and New Finance LLC and New FX Limited (https://www.newfx.us). The other three platforms are Axi24 […]