CMC Markets, one of UK’s major forex, CFD and spread betting broker that is a market leader in Germany, said it welcomes the decision of BaFin to introduce the mandatory negative balance protection requirement for CFDs for retail ...

Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) announced it is restricting the marketing, distribution and sale of financial contracts for difference (CFDs). Namely, it forbids the offering of CFDs without negative balance protection to retail clients. The regulator gives ...

Much like many major and smaller forex brokers, who took precautions against high market volatility around the first round of the presidential elections in France on April, days before the second round on May 7, a significant number ...

New Zealand’s financial services and markets regulator, the Financial Markets Authority (FMA), has published a warning against the unregulated forex broker MRTMarkets. In its message FMA says that the broker is not authorized to provide services to residents ...

Lars Seier Christensen, co-founder and stakeholder in Denmark’s financial services company and forex broker Saxo Bank has sold his 25.71% stake to the Chinese automotive company Geely Group, which also owns Volvo and the London Taxi Company. According ...

Gain Capital, the largest US retail forex broker in terms of client assets, has reported rather disappointing results for the first quarter of this year. According to the data for the period that ended on March 31, the ...

Nearly a year after the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) decided to withdraw the license of the forex broker CommexFX and less than a month after the regulator finally made it public, the regulator said it is ...

A new Las Vegas striptease club, The Legends Room, has launched its own cryptocurrency – Legends (LGD) – that can be used to pay for drinks and dances in the club, with a 20% discount, guaranteeing anonymity. LGD ...

The deposits of US retail forex clients have showed signs of recovery after FXCM’s dramatic exit in February, according to the latest data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). As per the filings of the four ...