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I love the way that even the FT trivialises what brokers do by calling them websites instead of massive financial institutions. It’s a bit like calling Facebook a blog, or Amazon an online shop. Anyway, CMC Markets is clearly benefitting from the regulators clampdown on spivvy little brokers nicking the big boys customers by tempting […]
CMC winning back the big punters, despite being just a “website” Read More »
ETX Capital, one of the longest running spread betting and CFD brokers based in the UK and regulated by the FCA has won a few more awards this year. Best Spread Betting Platform – ADVFN Financial Awards Best Trading Platform – Online Personal Wealth Awards Best Education – Online Personal Wealth Awards ETX also bagged
Every now and again, someone does something sensible. This time it’s Google banning crypto advertising before too many people get ripped off, lose all their money and the global financial regulators come in and force them to do it any way. I say force, I actually mean ask nicely, if they don’t mind, we rather
Google’s ban on crypto advertising is an absolute blessing for decent brokers… Read More »
If you’re a trade copier, trader leader or just a plain old trader you can now trade in Ethereum with ayondo. For those not familiar with social trading it’s a mean by which you can follow (copy) other traders trades. ayondo (and other social trading brokers) rank their traders based on profits by percentage and
ayondo launches Ethereum (Ether) for Social Trading and TradeHub® Read More »
If you haven’t read our Spreadex review yet, here are a few new features you may not know you were able to do with the alternative spread betting broker: Get tighter spreads – Spreadex have new variable spreads on FX offer greater value for trading foreign exchange. E.g. trade EUR/USD from a 0.6 spread and
8 new things you may not know you were able to do when trading with Spreadex Read More »
The news of a potential regulatory tightening around financial spread betting has hit the shares of leading spread betting companies. Friday’s late announcement by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) that it was looking at a potential ban on the promotion of binary options to retail customers sent the shares of leading operators into
Threat of regulatory crackdown hits spread-betting shares Read More »
CMC Markets is one of the biggest online spread betting brokers in the UK, and it posted a healthy rise in profits for its first half as work to target wealthier customers paid dividends. But its short-term outlook is more conservative as a regulatory crackdown is expected to hit the industry. In the 6 months
60% profit jump for CMC Markets precludes likely spread betting clampdown Read More »
Spreadex, one of the oldest spread betting brokers in the business has won spread betting operator of the year at the EGR Awards 2017. Spreadex fit nicely into EGR’s (who mainly cover gambling companies) coverage because they are the only financial spread betting broker to offer sports spread betting. Which is basically the same as
Spreadex wins best spread betting broker at EGR Awards Read More »
JRJ Group Sells ETX to Guru Capital read all about it here. The Times reports that JRJ Group, who bought ETX Capital for £15m in 2009 have hired Royal Bank Of Canada on Strategic options for a sale between £20m and £50m. The CFD broker and spread betting industry is certainly bi-polar. On the one
IG, one of the largest spread betting and CFD brokers in the UK released their 2017 results showing a 38% increase in new clients. With 15% coming from OTC leveraged business. If you’re not over au fait with what “OTC Leveraged” means it’s basically clients trading on margin through products like spread betting and CFD
IG Group embraces new FCA rules as results show 2017 net trading revenue up 8% Read More »
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