Japan’s forex and binary options markets increased in September 2016, after hitting in August the lowest trading volumes since the beginning of the year, according to the data published on Monday by the Financial Futures Association of Japan ...

New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority (FMA) issued on Monday two separate statements, warning against unauthorized forex broker CMS Trader and binary options broker TallOptions. Furthermore, the regulator warned that TallOptions may be associated to peer Option Giants, of ...

Italy’s financial regulator CONSOB has added the forex broker VortexAssets to its list of companies who are not authorized to provide investment services in Italy. According to its website, “Vortex assets is an innovative financial services company offering ...

The Manitoba Securities Commission (MSC), the financial regulatory body of the Canadian province of Manitoba, issued over the weekend warning notices against binary option brokers 53 Option and Hedgestone Group for providing financial services to local citizens without ...

Oanda, the Canadian-based forex brokerage that is among the major players on the global forex market, announced it is launching v20 – a proprietary “state-of-the-art” trading engine. According to the company announcement, v20’s execution speed is “1.3 milliseconds, ...

Trading platforms MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5) have been upgraded to optimize operations and to offer new functionalities, Russia’s MetaQuotes, the developer behind the two platforms, said in separate notices over the weekend. ...

FreshForex, an offshore-regulated broker mostly active in Russia and Asia, announced it is now accepting client deposits via Visa and MasterCard credit cards. The accounts can be funded in USD without extra conversion. According to the broker’s site, ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) will suspend the Fast Track license examination scheme for a certain period of time, the regulator said in a notice on Friday. It will be re-launched on 2 January, 2017 with ...

LocalBitcoins, a Finnish-based over-the-counter Bitcoin exchange that was blacklisted by Russia’s megaregulator Roskomnadzor under the provision “illegal information on the internet”, announced it has launched a mirror trading site for its Russian clients. The site LocalBitcoins.net has been ...