Press Commentary

Trading through banks:
considering the value proposition for retail FX investors.

An increasing number of banks are now offering private investors the ability to trade FX on a speculative basis, on margin, previously only offered by retail brokers and portals that aggregated prices for private investors from the various brokers.
Frances Maguire investigates what products are currently available.

e-FX Options:
Providing new profit and hedging opportunities for Retail Investors

The growth of electronically traded FX options by retail traders, both over the counter and on-exchange, is already taking off as more sophisticated retail investors look for new trading and hedging opportunities.

Marketindex: Danger! Danger?

Sometimes, you just want to play a hunch, or pick a bottom, or otherwise break your rules. Or, if you’re just getting started and don’t have much to lose, you want to trade small — smaller even than what the mini contracts offer.

The e-FOREX Site Inspection

Larry Levy talks with the Private Investor Products group at ABN AMRO, about the banks' Retail FX trading platform - marketindex.

Brave New World

As the world gets smaller and technology opens up markets like never before, how are brokerages making the most of these opportunities? Will on-line trading change the way we invest?

Banking on numbers:
Making strategic moves into Retail FX

Electronic trading is opening up FX trading to retail investors. More efficient trading systems allow retail investors to trade amounts up to 50 to 100 times their margins. Up until last year, when Deutsche Bank and ABN Amro entered the market, retail platforms and nonbank currency trading platforms dominated the retail FX market. But this now looks set to change, ...

ABN AMRO launches foray into retail FX and other assets

Euromoney, 07.2006

AA-rated Dutch banking group ABN AMRO is poised to officially roll out a new trading platform aimed specifically at attracting business from an increasingly important retail sector"