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CFD's used for Insider Trading
- Australias financial regulator has been investigating misues of highly leveraged financial trading instruemnts in a potenial takeover bid. THE head of a Chinese firm, his wife and three others are being investigated over claims they used inside knowledge of the group's plans to take over Australian mining companies to make almost $2 million in profits betting on the sharemarket.
Wednesday, 14/09/2011 | 05:19 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
A new US retail forex broker is born - OptionsXpress registers as an RFED
- As expected OptionXpress has registered as an RFED with the CFTC and will soon become open for retail forex business. XPRESSTRADE, LLC (www.xtfx.com) is capitalized at $22,841,980 and already has $17,720 in retail forex customers obligations. OptionsXpress is the second 'traditional' broker to start offering retail foreign exchange after TradeStation.
Monday, 12/09/2011 | 12:43 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
CFTC Charges Jeffrey Liskov and EagleEye Asset Management with Committing a $3 Million Forex Fraud
Friday, 09/09/2011 | 04:07 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
CFTC sues 11 more firms for accepting US retail forex clients
Thursday, 08/09/2011 | 17:56 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
CFTC fines fraudulent FX Broker
- US regulator; Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed and simultaneously settled charges that Roy Scarboro, Jr of Archdale, NC, fraudulently solicited approximately $713,000 from customers to trade off-exchange foreign currency (forex).
Monday, 05/09/2011 | 10:39 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
CFTC Charges Douglas Elsworth Wilson in Multi-Million Dollar Commodity Futures and Forex Scheme
- Washington, DC - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that on August 18, 2011 a federal court in California entered an order freezing the assets of defendants Douglas Elsworth Wilson of Poway, Calif., and three California companies that he controls and manages, Elsworth Berg Capital Management LLC (EBCM), Elsworth Berg Inc., and Elsworth Berg FX LLC (collectively, Elsworth Berg). The order also prohibits the destruction of their books and records.
Tuesday, 23/08/2011 | 06:37 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
Turkish Regulator CMB provides update on New FX Regulation
Monday, 22/08/2011 | 13:33 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
RBI plans to ease remittance and outside investments
Thursday, 18/08/2011 | 10:35 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
Amendments to NFA's Forex Requirements Including NFA's Jurisdiction Over Members Engaging in Forex Activities
- Basically NFA here extends its grip on more retail forex market participants than now. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently approved a number of amendments to NFA Requirements that govern the retail forex activities of NFA Members. These amendments to NFA Bylaws 301 and 306, NFA Compliance Rules 2-10, 2-36 and 2-39, Code of Arbitration Section 1 and Interpretive Notices 9053, 9058 and 9060 will become effective October 1, 2011.
Wednesday, 17/08/2011 | 10:59 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
NFA fines FXCM $2 million for slippage malpractices, FXCM will credit clients back
- Apparently Non Dealing Desk doesn't mean you get the best execution - NFA has just announced that it heavily fined FXCM for slippage malpractices. FXCM will pay $2 million directly to NFA and will compensate all customers who suffered from this practice since June 2008. The details of this case are not much different from the similar fine of $459k which NFA imposed on Gain Capital for using the Virtual Dealing plugin and similar slippage settings.
Saturday, 13/08/2011 | 17:14 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
US court sues Bank of New York FX - Misleading Pricing
Friday, 12/08/2011 | 06:50 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
CFTC Charges Blue Sky Capital Management and Gregory Schneider with Making False Statements to the NFA
Friday, 12/08/2011 | 05:54 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
Federal Court Finds that Gary and Brenda Martin and Queen Shoals Consultants Defrauded Customers in Forex Scheme
Tuesday, 09/08/2011 | 13:05 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
Suspended FX Broker - iForex gets Green Light to Trade
Monday, 08/08/2011 | 05:56 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
Turkish Lira takes a dive on the back of central bank cuts
Friday, 05/08/2011 | 14:36 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
$30 Million Forex Ponzi Scheme unveiled
- Another one gets caught. The rise in Forex Ponzi schemes has been remarkable over the last two years. Culprits are misuing FX trading as a front, promising returns of over 10%. David R. Lewalski, formerly of Gainesville, Fla., pleaded guilty today to mail fraud in connection with his operation of a $30 million investment fraud scheme,
Tuesday, 02/08/2011 | 14:37 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
Swissquote publishes H1 2011 results, forex volume slightly up
- Swissquote, the Swiss Bank which recently acquired ACM, has just published its financial results for the first half year of 2011. The Bank improved in almost all metrics and its forex (what they call eForex) volume is up 5% from the first quarter. Swissquote's average monthly volume is now 35 billion CHF - equal to $42.4 Billion.
Friday, 29/07/2011 | 11:10 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
PFGBEST Enters China
- It is no surprise to us that PFGBEST is focusing on China. Just to give you an idea on the potential for currency trading in China: Industry leader FXCM announced that Chinese residents accounted for $418 Billion in volume for the fiscal year 2010.
Friday, 29/07/2011 | 10:56 GMT by
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