Singapore-based broker Straits Financial Services Pte. Ltd. just announced that is now providing prime-of-prime (PoP) brokerage services to Spotex, a developer of modular, technology systems for foreign exchange brokers and institutional ECN operator. The partnership enables clients to access institutional FX liquidity via Straits Financial and provides a gateway for brokers to deploy Spotex’s modular technology solutions. Straits Financial will now provide credit intermediation and liquidity...

LeapRate Interview… Forex and CFD online trading platform Skilling announced last week that it has joined forces with Spotware’s cTrader to launch the industry’s first seamless integration. Skilling’s clients can now trade across two different trading platforms inside a single Skilling account without the need to fund two different wallets or manage two trading accounts separately. Put simply, we wanted to give our clients a choice which trading platform to use – our proprietary Skilling...

Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream just released its volumes report for the first month of 2020. The ADV figures for January are based on 22 trading days. ADV in January increased 19.11% to USD37.033 billion compared to December 2019. January’s ADV of USD37.033 billion was 9.74% greater than CBOE HotSpot’s ADV of USD33.592 billion – exceeding CBOE/HotSpot’s ADV every month since November 2018, with the exception of 1 month. FXSpotStream’s ADV YoY (Jan ’20 vs Jan ’19) was slightly...

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts prepared their daily commentary on traditional markets for February 4, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The pound is continuing the trend from yesterday, a day in which the British currency lost more than 1.4% to the US dollar and 1.2% to the euro, with further losses accumulating for Sterling early in Tuesday’s session. The markets continue to price in the potential impact on the British economy of there being no trade deal in place...

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech company and part of the S&P 500® Index, just announced that it has appointed Chris Perry as President, effective March 2, 2020. Perry currently leads Broadridge’s Global Sales, Marketing and Client Solutions organization, but will now take a stronger role leading Broadridge’s top clients and partners, overseeing Broadridge International, and coordinating Broadridge’s overall growth strategy. Gokey commented on the news: Chris is...