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  • Skrill suspending payouts to certain Forex brokers

    From leaprate.com

    Continuing our exclusive coverage of all the fallout from the unparalleled Swiss Franc volatility on Thursday, LeapRate has learned from a number of retail forex brokers that online payments company Skrill (formerly Moneybookers) has temporarily suspended payouts to certain retail forex brokers. Skrill is keeping the accounts suspended over the weekend, and expects to reevaluate the situation early next week. Skrill cited ‘the exposure [which] some of our FX merchants are facing as a result’ of the Swiss Franc move as the reason for its halting of withdrawals by the brokers. The following email was received ... (full story)

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TheTopBloke
Jan 18, 2015 2:17pm
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What is going on here is people are morons. It never ceases to amaze me the stupidity in the financial community. Seriously, who the fuck shorts the CHF???

So you've a got trade, it closed, was it CHF? How could you not have benefited, and if it wasn't CHF, how was it possibly connected?

In less than one second companies went belly up, and traders vanished. Fine, but this is going beyond that now, because the financial community is too fucking stupid and too fucking greedy to do anything right.

Leverage. Absolutely fucking amazing.
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azmoeth
Jan 18, 2015 11:13am
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i use skrill too..wtf is goin' on here
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azmoeth
Jan 27, 2015 12:21am
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not again with Alpari
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DeeKey
Jan 18, 2015 6:33pm
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I guess,.. For all countries and really regulated brokers, new EBS regulations are coming, where brokerage firms/institutions will be forced to decrease leverage, to prevent this kind of scenario,.. so this means,.. a lot of volatility is expected...
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Bear-Trader
Jan 19, 2015 7:17am
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Quoting DeeKey
I guess,.. For all countries and really regulated brokers, new EBS regulations are coming, where brokerage firms/institutions will be forced to decrease leverage, to prevent this kind of scenario,.. so this means,.. a lot of volatility is expected...
It is common knowledge that rookies hold on to losing positions hoping for a rebound.
Is that what all these idiot brokers did?

"I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure!" Rick Santelli
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demon king
Jan 18, 2015 5:34pm
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topbloke on fire, kkkkkkkkk
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KingHussain
Jan 18, 2015 9:42am
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wow this is gonna be very interesting, because many like me use skrill for deposits and withdrawals.
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F4RexTrader
Jan 18, 2015 11:29am
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skrill is worst payment processor my experience never use it.
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tanim
Jan 18, 2015 3:59pm
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is hotforex included in those companies?
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