As technological alignments with the Dodd-Frank Act continue to proliferate North America’s institutional FX sector, British post trade risk mitigation company ICAP has today announced…
Posts published in November 2013
Euro Advances as German Inflation Accelerates
The euro advanced today against the US dollar and the Japanese yen after data showed that German consumer inflation accelerated this month. The currency was unable to beat the strong performance of the Great…
Shopify Partners With BitPay to Launch Bitcoin Payment Integration
Shopify, a front to end provider of ecommerce solutions has announced that it is launching bitcoin payment integration for its 75,000+ merchants. With the new…
Bitcoin prices are back to all-time records today. After clearing $1000 on both MtGox and BTC China last week before briefly falling back down, the…
Changes on the Horizon at Safecap (Markets.com)
Earlier in the month we reported that CySec regulated Safecap Investments LTD, the financial firm behind the trading brand Markets.com among others, to lead its…
Litecoin Approaches Dr Evil Territory as it Hits $1 Billion Market Cap
Ok, it may not be (get your pinky ready) $100,000,000,000, but with prices of litecoin now near $50 the currency’s market cap has breached $1…
Bitcoin Is Much Easier to Track and Regulate Than Cash
On November 11th it was announced that an institutional Bitcoin exchange, called itBit, was in funds. Following that story, Forex Magnates interviewed Dan Ciporin, General…
Sentry Derivatives – CEO – Steven Reiter
FX Options company Sentry Derivatives has recently branched further into the retail FX space, a notable event having been the provision of the company’s strategic…
Swissie Gains with Growing Economy
The Swiss franc advanced today on signs of stable growth and hopes that economy will grow even faster next year. The currency was still constrained by the cap imposed by the Swiss National Bank.…
Fed Tampering Talks Hurt Malaysian Ringgit
The Malaysian ringgit fell today as positive data from the United States added to speculations that the Federal Reserve will tamper quantitative easing. Such talks deterred traders from buying riskier…