Global exchanges and their brokers are making the right moves as World Finance announces its 2012 Exchanges & Brokers awards winners
With 2010, the year when the faithful returned to the world’s stock exchanges, hopes were high for a similar trajectory in 2011. Markets don’t exist in isolation, sadly, and what could have been a positive year became one in which brokers were left ne...
Selecting the best CFD and FX broker can be a daunting task with so many options available. That’s why Ava FX has made it its business to always deliver a tailor-made client service. Interview with Emanuel Kronitz, CEO of Ava FX
Becoming a leading force for CFD and FX trading is no easy feat considering the competition in the currency market. But Ava FX has defied the odds by keeping one central focus as the core of its business: The client’s requirements. In less than eight...
What if somebody told you Apple’s stock price will plunge 50 percent, Australia will hit a sudden recession and Sweden will replace Switzerland as the new safe haven this year? Not likely to happen? Think again, says Saxo Bank’s Steen Jakobsen
As unlikely as those scenarios may seem, they have made the highly anticipated list of Saxo Bank’s ten most “outrageous predictions” for 2012. Copenhagen-based Saxo Bank enjoys an international reputation for offering an outstanding trading platf...
Few companies are as specialised in providing online trading services and placing financial instruments at the commodity, stock, future and currency markets as LiteForex
LiteForex’s consistent and impeccable reputation is ensured by its management team and highly qualified team of specialists. Dedication, professional expertise and knowledge, commitment to improving services and facilities, regular implementation of new...
EuroTLX has launched its EU bond selection, an appealing solution for both market makers and brokers in Europe
With MiFID II imposing a whole new set of requirements to the non-equity world, the financial industry has started to collaborate in order to find ad-hoc solutions, ranging from authority-solicited endeavoors, such as the French Cassiopeia, to common init...
In just a decade and a half since its inception, Edelweiss has emerged as a major player in the Indian financial services space
In 1996, lured by the opportunities offered by the newly liberalising India, two finance professionals in their early thirties, Rashesh Shah and Venkat Ramaswamy, resigned from their comfortable jobs and borrowed $100,000 to co-found Edelweiss Capital Ltd...
Scalability and leading-edge technology are driving social investing sites’ growth, allowing them to attract clients away from banks. Goodbye broker, hello wise moderator
There was a time when online brokerage was one of the largest internet industries. The “housewives on the stock market” phenomenon gave a boost to the brokerage industry, and to the broader process of monetisation of internet projects. It has been mor...
From modest beginnings in the early 1990s the Malta Stock Exchange has developed into a first-rate exchange, comparable to any of the world’s leading platforms
The past two years have been a milestone period for the Malta Stock Exchange, marking the 20th anniversary since the enactment of the Malta Stock Exchange Act at the end of 1990, establishing a capital market in Malta, marking the appointment of the first...
The crisis in developed nations, above-target inflation and difficulties in adjusting to monetary policy are the main challenges facing the Brazilian economy in 2012
The financial crisis that started at the end of 2008 had a near-immediate contractionary effect on the real economy. The government and the Central Bank of Brazil have acted quickly, and after a moderate contraction of -0.33 percent in 2009, Brazil’s gr...
Through a strategic outlook that focuses on development in software, hardware and its clients, HotForex has set itself apart from other brokers
HotForex has witnessed some phenomenal growth since its inception in 2010. The brokerage, from the very first stages, has positioned itself as one of the innovative front runners in the highly competitive online brokerage market and continues to add to it...
234.1% of GDP, pariah of debt markets, but with hopes for a healthy twelve months ahead
197.5%, hard-hit by the tsunami, and reeling from the internal corruption allegations
142.8%, possibly heading for default, and considered one of many eurozone bad boys
133.8%, deceptively, has a strong banking sector, but little more in an ailing economy
126%, hopelessly indebted banks and very little light at the end of a long and gloomy tunnel
119% of GDP, in need of reform, paying over 7% for its debt thanks to technocratic leadership
106%, to many an idyllic investment destination, a great borrower, repayer, and long term option
101%, no government for most of 2011 didn’t help a weak economy in dire need of stimulus
90%, high but it’s recovering from a long and protracted revolution and aiming high
82%, stronger countries like Germany are contaminated by the weakest. It could go on…