The Alpari Group, one of the world’s fastest growing providers of online foreign exchange (FOREX) services, today announced the launch of Alpari Direct Pro, an institutional trading platform powered by Currenex®, a recognized and award-winning leader in the provision of innovative trading solutions to the active-trading segment of the Forex market.

Alpari (UK), one of the world’s fastest growing providers of online foreign exchange (FOREX) continues its rapid global expansion, supported by a combined client growth of nearly 100 percent (98.56 %) at the company’s offices in London, Mumbai and Shanghai since the start of 2009. This exceeds ambitious internal plans, which assumed the doubling of client accounts only by the end of the year.

Alpari (US), LLC, a regulated Foreign Exchange company and global provider of online Forex trading, announced today that the company has introduced flexible spreads for all currency pairs. Flexible spread minimums will be reduced on average 30% and up to 60% for some currency pairs, compared with previous fixed spreads. The spreads will naturally widen during certain times of the day, periods of lower liquidity and when there is increased market volatility.

dbFX, Deutsche Bank’s online retail foreign exchange (FX) trading platform is using social media sites such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn to connect with FX traders and attract new visitors to dbfx.com site. 

ACM (www.ac-markets.com), world leader in online currency trading, has further enhanced its trading conditions for FX traders. 

GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (GAIN Capital), a global provider of online trading services, today announced the launch of FOREX.com, its award-winning margin foreign exchange (FOREX or FX) trading service, in Japan (http://jp.forex.com).

Gain Capital filed their S1-form with the SEC on Monday. The S1 is one of the initial filings required before an Initial Public Offering (IPO) can take place. This means that if everything goes as planned, Gain Capital will be a public stock. This process it going to be interesting to investors for at least three reasons.