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Compagnie Financière Tradition (CFT), a Swiss interdealer broker and operator of a Japanese retail broking giant, released its financials for the first quarter of 2023, reporting a consolidated revenue of CHF 271.6 million. It jumped 9.6 percent from the previous year’s CHF 247.7 million. At a constant exchange rate, the year-over-year increase touched 14.3 percent. CFT Had a Strong Start […]
StoneX Group (Nasdaq: SNEX), which owns Forex.com and City Index brands, ended the three months between January and March with a decline of 38 percent in revenue from its forex and contracts for difference (CFDs) units. Strong Pullback in FX/CFDs Demand According to the recently filed Form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), StoneX generated $61.8 million in […]
Bitcoin price may have recovered from the collapse of the FTX crisis, but its fallout continues to reverberate across the crypto industry. As participants seek ways to regain the institutional trust that the current crisis has created, and avoid the next one, one of the theories being advanced is the potential for prime brokers to develop and maintain credit relationships. […]
HFM Hires Markets.com’s Yaqub Tale as Country Head in KenyaHFM, a retail forex and CFDs brokerage that recently rebranded from HotForex, has appointed Yaqub Tale as its Head of Country in Kenya. Tale until the appointment was a Regional Business Consultant for East Africa at online trading provider, Markets.com, for nearly two years.Tale, who brings about five years of trading […]
Vantage, previously known as Vantage Markets, has established its presence in Africa by obtaining a derivatives license from South Africa’s Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA). New License for Vantage According to the press release shared with Finance Magnates, the new license will allow the forex and contracts for differences (CFDs) broker to offer its services in South Africa, onboarding local […]
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 […]
The net revenue from foreign exchange trading activities on Cboe Global Markets’ platforms increased by 8% year-over-year during first quarter 2023, the American exchange operator disclosed on Friday in its latest financial performance report. The increase came primarily as a result of higher net transaction fees, Cboe said.Cboe FX Hits Multiple Volume Records in Q1In the report, Cboe noted that […]
Total volumes of spot foreign exchange traded on Electronic Broking Services (EBS) reached $52.9 billion in April 2023, CME Group disclosed on Friday. EBS is the American derivatives exchange operator’s wholesale electronic trading platform for forex trading with market-making banks.FX Link Grows, Spot FX Slumps across RegionsFinance Magnates reports that trading activities in spot FX among institutional investors weakened last […]
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 […]