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...
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U.S. Election 2024: Markets Brace for High-Stakes Vote as Polls Tighten
04 Nov 2024
With over 75M early votes, the tight 2024 U.S. election stirs market volatility. Swing states and potential rate hikes drive uncertainty in global markets.
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.
IS Risk Analytics' View From the Desk - April 2020
April saw broker volumes fall off significantly from the near-record numbers recorded in February and March. Profits, though down as well, were respectable as...
Risk Update: NFP – Are you ready?
Nonfarm Friday is a day that used to be quite exciting for trading desks and traders alike, although the last couple years have been somewhat sleepy. After...
IS Prime Releases Revolutionary UK & US Oil Index Rebased at 100
New products could potentially save brokers from losing millions of dollars
