The Forex Dealers Association (AFD) has applied for registration as a forex self-regulatory organization (SRO) with Russia’s megaregulator the Bank of Russia, report a number of Russian-language media. ...

Online forex brokerage AMarkets said on Monday it has reduced the minimum initial deposit requirement for ECN accounts to $1,000. This is a significant drop from the previous requirement of $5,000. ...

Rakuten Securities, one of Japan’s largest forex brokers, announced it is introducing new, tighter spreads for three forex pairs. The new spreads are active as of Monday, May 9 and are in essence fixed spreads. ...

Offshore forex broker Weltrade said on Monday it has increased the volume of a single order to a maximum 100 lots. The change applies for all account types available with the broker. ...

Alpari, the largest forex brokerage house in Russia, has included a new function to call/put binary options on the trading platform BinaryTrader, the broker said last week. The new feature allows for doubling the cost of an existing ...

Oanda Europe, the UK subsidiary of one of the leading US forex brokers, Oanda, has reported a loss of GBP 1.54 million ($2.23 million) from its operations in 2015, shows a filing with UK’s registry The Companies House. ...

Monex Group, a Japanese forex brokerage group, reported on Monday its consolidated Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs), or the daily number of transactions that generate revenue per business day, slightly increased by 3.9% over the month to 299,629 ...

The trading metrics of the largest US forex broker FXCM (NYSE:FXCM) for April were a mixed bag of ups and downs, both between the retail and the institutional traders and when compared to last month and last year. ...

FXCM’s (NYSE:FXCM) net quarterly revenue for the period ended on March 31, 2016 reached $71.5 million, up 6.7% from the last quarter of 2015 and 9% higher than Q1 2015. ...