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ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority is considering proposals to reduce the amount of leverage available to private clients trading CFDs, FOREX and spread betting to a maximum of 30:1. Leverage has historically been as high as 500:1 so this may significantly reduce the amount of exposure clients can trade on. Clearly there are […]
Fresh from winning ‘Best Prime Broker – Credit Strategies’ at the 2017 Alt Credit Intelligence European Services Awards we talk to Jerry Lees, Chairman of Linear Investments on becoming the one stop shop and incubator for start-up and small to medium size hedge funds. • Why did you found Linear as a prime broker? That’s
Simon Bird, the former COO of financial spread betting broker City Index, has been named as non-executive chairman of Ikon Finance Limited, part of the multinational Ikon Group. The announcement confirms rumours that began in the autumn that Bird was set to return to the industry with Ikon, which is due to re-launch in 2018.
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CMC Markets one of the leading CFD and spread betting brokers has launched a new product to compliment it’s recent Prime Brokerage FX institutional offering. API will allow institutions to provide their clients with CMC’s multi-asset coverage. The CMC Markets API includes: Over 80 index, commodity and treasury CFDs, plus more than 300 FX pairs
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ETX Capital, has released a new version of their TraderPro Platform, with a few new features to make spread betting and CFD trading more user friendly. Founded in 1965 as Monecor they started offering derivatives to institutional clients in 2002, then focused on providing CFD and spread betting as ETX Capital since 2007. Here are
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Spreadex, one of the best spread betting brokers in the UK is one of 78 based in (and around) London to make it onto the FT’s list of fastest 1,000 European companies. Spreadex founded in 1998 was ranked 943 out of 1,000 on the FT’s list published on May 17th 2017 with key stats of: Revenue
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CMC Markets, one of the leading forex brokers in the UK, has launched Prime FX to service hedge funds, institutions and professional traders that are too small for the traditional prime brokers. This puts CMC Markets in direct competition with brokers like Saxo Capital markets who have always looked after more high net work private
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Core Spreads, the discount spread betting and MT4 broker has updated their website. The old Core Spreads website was a sort of single page scroll down that was quite trendy at the time and reflected their discount approach to trading. When Core Spreads launched their entire USP was based on offering the tightest spreads with
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Sucden Financial has recent launched OTC FX options to compliment it’s deliverable FX offering. But what are they and how can they be used? Sucden’s OTC FX options are basically a more flexible version of traditional foreign exchange options traded on exchange. The disadvantage of trading FX options on exchange is that you are restricted to
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In a note to clients Saxo Capital Markets one of the more professional CFD brokers has increased the charges for converting one currency to another. One erk about having an account with Saxo is that the account generally automatically does currency conversions to your base currency. So if you make a profit in USD it
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