Retail brokers generally state that around 75% of retail investors lose money - the majority of these losses are in the spread value of their trades (because...
Getting it right from the start: Taking a constructive approach to client integration
Whenever a firm decides to work with a new Prime of Prime (PoP), there are a number of steps involved and various factors to consider. Firms – particularly...
IS Risk Analytics' View From the Desk - July 2020
After a relatively quiet start to the month, the second half of July brought strong profits for brokers, allowing most to far exceed the results seen in June....
Liquidation Risk: Have you assessed the impact on your firm?
As market volatility persists, brokers have become increasing vigilant monitoring the risk of their clients’ potential (and realised) negative balance exposure...
IS Risk Analytics' View From the Desk - June 2020
June profits and volumes were front-loaded with the bulk of PL in the first 10 days of the month, primarily due to broad-based USD selling. Profitability in...
Why Client Flow Needs to Be Matched Against Appropriate Liquidity Pools
In a follow-up to my recent post on Aggregation & Spreads: The Race to Zero, I’d like to drill down on the best practices that we use to help brokers...
IS Risk Analytics' View From the Desk - May 2020
May volumes were very similar to April totals, but still far below the highs reached in February and March. Although volumes were in line with April, profits...
VIDEO - FX Liquidity: Virtual Vision Finance
Jonathan Brewer, Managing Partner at IS Prime, joins the 'Virtual Vision Finance' liqiudity pannel discussion.
IS Prime - Best Trade Execution (Prime of Prime) in Global Forex Awards 2020
5 June 2020 – IS Prime has been voted winner of the Best Trade Execution (Prime of Prime) category in the Global Forex Awards 2020.
Re-evaluating Prime of Prime
In the last year we have seen a dramatic fall in interest from our clients and prospects, particularly retail brokers, in “True Prime of Prime” offerings ,...
Why copy trading needs to be carefully managed
Following IS Prime’s recent announcement about our partnership with Pelican Trading to integrate their social copy-trading technology into our trading...
Aggregation & Spreads: The Race to Zero
Barry Flanigan, head of Electronic Trading Solutions (ETS) at IS Prime, talks to eForex magazine about the pitfalls of purely focusing on spreads.
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