Less than a year after it launched its very own social trading network, the global forex broker Oanda has announced that in a week it will be shutting the platform down. fxUnity is scheduled for termination next Friday, March 8, 2013. Hopefully it ...

Coming in to work today I expected the usual uneventful Friday when I get to catch up on my facebooking and other social interactions. Instead, I was welcomed by some breaking news reported by ForexMagnates: FXSolutions is getting out of the U.S. ...

Earlier today the biggest forex broker in the world up to date, FXCM, reported its operational metrics for January 2013 and we were glad to notice that the stagnant, low-volatility markets of 2012 are in the history, where they belong. 42% is the ...

Over 4 decades ago the US economist and Nobel prize winner James Tobin suggested that a tax should be imposed on spot currency conversions in order to manage exchange rate volatility. While the concept, now known as a Tobin tax, didn't catch up in ...

A couple of days ago FXCM released its December 2012 metrics and even though it remains one of the biggest brokers worldwide, we spotted slight declines in numbers. However, FXCM seems to have a plan to boost up its operation, and that plan is ...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has published the October 2012 reports on futures commission merchants (FCMs) and retail foreign exchange dealers (RFEDs). FCMs and RFEDs are obliged to submit this information to the CFTC monthly ...

At the end of Q3, Forex.com published some interesting metrics: while the retail forex business had not increased dramatically, the company reported a growth of 93% in its institutional business. Apparently, Gain Capital – the company behind the ...

Leading Australian Forex provider Vantage FX has launched an exclusive closed beta-test of their new Vantage FX WebTrader Platform to a select group of traders. The new Vantage FX WebTrader platform is an improved version of their original WebTrader ...

ThinkForex, a leading international Forex broker, today announced it has secured its regulation with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). TF Global Markets (Aust) Pty Ltd is licensed and regulated by ASIC with AFSL number ...

The Swiss forex broker and bank Swissquote has just released a report on its Q3 metrics. In line with the overall industry trend, revenues and profit rates are stagnant. Year –on-year, the company’s revenues decreased by 14.9% and net profit – by ...

After teaming up with Barclays to launch the Barclays Margin FX white label partnership, FXCM has managed to attract yet another broker to offer its FXCM Trading Station platform: the Spanish GVC Gaesco. One can only wonder about the profitability ...

Earlier today, CFTC released a report on the US forex traders profitability during the third quarter of the year. To no surprise, FXCM is one of the very few brokers with significant growth during Q3. In the US, FXCM has attracted 833 new customers ...

GFT Markets, an international forex broker, has widened its trading instruments offering to include Chinese currency pairs. Existing and prospective customers will be able to exchange Chinese Yuans for US dollars and Japanese Yens on a spot basis ...

Back in August 2012 FXCM introduced Dealing Desk trading to its customers from Australia. Supposedly, they were testing the waters to see whether offering a choice between Dealing Desk and No Dealing Desk execution globally would make sense – and ...