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CFD health check prompts more oversight

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... improve the market's transparency, following a study that found consumers are still confused about the risks when trading CFDs. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) researched the CFD market last year as part of its 'healthcheck ...

Orion tightens compliance after rogue trader caught

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... significantly heightened as a result," he said. ASIC alleges that between approximately July 2008 and January 2009, Hartman traded CFDs while in possession of inside information about Orion's trading intentions. It is alleged that Hartman established ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... price index contract declined 50 points to 4677, on volume of 14,589 contracts. MS Global head of contracts for difference (CFDs), Anthony Anderson, said the market was looking bearish. "We're seeing quite a lot of selling," he said. Eyes were on ANZ's ...

CFD demand rises with equities recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
Contracts for Difference (CFDs) are staging a comeback and, in the last 12 months, there was a power shift among the largest players too, new research found. Research firm Investment Trends released its latest annual report on the sector, canvassing ...

CMC continues broking push

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... imposed on smaller brokers open up more opportunities in the sector. Traditionally catering for Contracts for Difference (CFDs) traders, CMC Markets moved into direct share trading in January last year when it acquired broking firm Andrew West Stockbrokers ...

IG Markets offers more transparency

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... Markets was established in the UK but has operations in Australia, Italy and Germany. Among the benefits of DMA trading of CFDs are: allowing CFD clients to compare buying and selling interest by seeing queues of buy and sell orders; enabling traders ...

IG Markets launches brand campaign

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... get back into the markets now 30 to 60 per cent lower than 12 months ago. Szabo said that their contracts for difference (CFDs) business globally has conducted more than 5.1 million trades in October, a record month, compared to less than 2 million trades ...

IG Markets enables chart trading

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... www.igmarkets.com.au. Other recent initiatives from IG Markets Australia have been the launch of Australian dollar denominated CFDs on a range of foreign indices and commodities. Last month the firm also launched a new Chinese language CFD trading service ...

CFD traders hibernate during crisis

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... CFD traders fell from 31,000 to 26,000 in the same period. While there was growth in the number of people looking to trade CFDs within a year, ongoing negative performance in the share market has seen the number of former or dormant CFD traders increase ...

ASIC tightens short-selling rules

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... fund-of-funds portfolios have done well even in bad markets." What will take a hit over the next month are Contracts for Difference (CFDs) providers as the new rules mean they cannot add to existing CFD shorts and no shorts are permitted on all Australian ...