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Dukascopy: Interest in acquisition of a Japanese licensed broker – Alpari
January 26th, 2015
As it was stated on 19.01.2015, Dukascopy is evaluating the possibility of purchasing the business of its damaged competitors to boost a growth. In particular, Dukascopy has initiated negotiations with the administrator of bankrupted Alpari (UK) in order to ...
FxPro to Launch MT5
January 26th, 2015
26 January 2015, London. FxPro is proud to announce the launch of the latest addition to their growing list of trading platforms, FxPro MetaTrader5, (MT5). Responding to the wishes of their traders, the industry-leading FX broker is in the final ...
FSC Mauritius: Notice of Cancellation of ONLY AGENT LTD Licence
January 26th, 2015
ONLY AGENT LTD has, pursuant to Section 111 of the Insurance Act 2005, surrendered its licence to act as Insurance Agent for Swan Insurance Company Ltd. Notice is hereby given that Financial Services Commission has today, 22nd January 2015, cancelled this ...
Minimum interest rates at credit auctions to provide Bank of Russia loans in US dollars to credit institutions
January 26th, 2015
The Bank of Russia set the minimum interest rates for 28-day and 365-day credit auctions held on 26 January 2015 to provide US dollar Bank of Russia loans secured by the pledge of claim on US dollar loans at 0.9178% and 1.3719% per annum respectively. Other parameters of the auctions are published in the Bank ...
Russian Ruble Falls After Tensions Flare Over Ukraine
January 26th, 2015
The Russian ruble fell sharply on opening on Monday, following a weekend of violence in eastern Ukraine and threats of further Western sanctions against Russia. At 10:55 the ruble was down 2.4 percent against the dollar at 65.82 and 2.4 percent weaker against the euro at 73.85. President Vladimir Putin blamed “criminal orders” by Ukrainian ...
IMF Launches New Data Platform
January 26th, 2015
The International Monetary Fund has launched a new platform to support its move to free data and to improve online global statistical dissemination. The new portal enables bulk data downloads and introduces dynamic visualization to showcase datasets that became ...
ECB cannot agree to debt relief for Greece: Coeure
January 26th, 2015
ECB board member Benoit Coeure said in a newspaper interview published on Monday that the European Central Bank would not take part in any debt cut for Greece. “It is not up to the ECB to decide whether Greece needs debt relief,” ...
Swiss Franc’s Leap Lifts Some FX Brokers
January 26th, 2015
Even as some foreign-exchange brokers that focus on serving retail customers were getting hammered by the surprise surge in the Swiss franc earlier this month, other firms that deal mostly with big banks, hedge funds and other large clients ...
Syriza win in Greece set to put markets on edge
January 26th, 2015
In a week where the focus would ordinarily have been on the latest FOMC meeting as well as US and UK GDP numbers, its events in Europe that are at the epicentre of the markets focus once again, and ...
Greece election: Anti-austerity Syriza leader Tsipras vows to end ‘pain’
January 26th, 2015
Anti-austerity Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras has vowed to end Greece’s “five years of humiliation and pain” after his general election win. Before cheering supporters, Mr Tsipras again pledged to renegotiate Greece’s massive international bailout. With nearly all of ...
