Posts published in July 2015

The Federal Reserve ended its two-day meeting today, making no changes to its monetary policy — a move that surprised no one. The US dollar rallied after the event even though…

I write this blog in the hours prior to the FOMC making its latest decision on monetary policy. I can almost guarantee that the Fed…

With the widespread abuse practices which some firms in the industry have engaged in during the past several years while using financial benchmarks in the…

Bitcoin payment services provider Bitnet has partnered with Zooz, a payment services platform, allowing its clients to now accept bitcoin. Bitnet processes bitcoin payments for…

In today’s daily digest of news from the online trading industry, we have a couple of updates from across the world. Certified Forex Professional Training…

Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has reported its financial earnings for Q2, ending June 30, 2015, according to a Thomson Reuters statement. In particular, revenues at Thomson…

The game of media censorship of Bitcoin in Russia has apparently resumed. Russia’s media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, is reportedly demanding that a local website edit or…

Ever since FXCM made it public that they were selling their , an order and quote based FX ECN, it has led to talk that…

Football sponsorships in the forex industry have been on the rise in recent months, as it seems that a number of brokers are capitalizing on…

UK pound is heading higher today, thanks in part to expectations that a rate increase from the Bank of England could be coming by the end of 2015 or around the beginning of 2016. With growth…