GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP), a global provider of online trading services, has completed its previously announced purchase of Open E Cry, LLC (OEC), an online futures broker, from optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. a subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corporation.
The acquisition of OEC adds futures and exchange traded options to GAIN's core forex trading offering, in keeping with the Company's strategy to diversify its product offerings and grow its commission-based revenue sources.
It's another day of the customer support challenge and today we talk to ICM Capital, a broker that we have a good opinion of.
Kim, ICM Capital's rep that I talked to, did quite well but at this point I don't have any expectations any more so I might be wrong. Read more
It seems it was only yesterday that we talked about summer plans and how broker easy-forex was giving traders a chance to have a bit of a holiday in Australia, and win $1 million in the meantime. Read more
FxPro is one of those serious, steadfast brokers who rarely make the news with flashy competitions and super-huge bonuses. Instead they just get down to business, do the work, reap a ton of awards and go home to celebrate. Read more
A while back, we sat down and discussed the merits of Enfinium's FX Copy social trading network in comparison with its two most popular peers, ZuluTrade and eToro. We established that, although FX Copy has some good points, it is generally lacking in certain areas. Read more
Yesterday, social trading giant ZuluTrade broke news of its latest partnership with Michigan-based brokerage Institutional Liquidity (ILQ). Read more
Today's star in the customer support challenge is one of the largest brokers online – FXCM. What I need you to know is that I use the term “star” very loosely here.
So far I have noticed that the bigger the broker, the worse and less personal the customer support. Read more
A new service has just been launched on the financial scene, available only to a few selected people for beta testing: BTC.sx. The service advertises “long and short leveraged bitcoin position trading”, which I read as simple bitcoin spread betting. Read more
Once again, we bring you news from global brokerage and investment expert, Copenhagen-based Saxo Bank. The past week has been quite busy for the firm and naturally for us also as we were trying to keep up with reporting on its latest undertakings. Read more
I believe we have spoken at great length already about how important it is for brokers to expand to new markets. Some do this by opening up offices to service clients all over the world. Others choose other methods, which are generally faster and cheaper. Read more
It's that time of the month when the cat usually drags in some US FCM data – let's see what happened on the American retail forex market in March 2013.
FXCM, OANDA and Forex.com remain the three most trusted brokers, with highest amounts of client assets kept with the brokers. Read more
