Stratos Markets Limited is authorized and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”). Registration Number 217689. The FCA has recently released guidance that it considers these products to be ill-suited for certain categories of clients and…
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Bitcoin (BTC/USD), Ether (ETH/USD), Litecoin (LTC/USD), Ripple (XRP/USD), Bitcoin Cash (BCH/USD), Stellar (XLM/USD) and the CryptoMajor basket will all be delisted.
This ban impacts certain categories of clients holding an account, with FXCM, the firm’s FCA regulated entity, irrespective of your country of residence. Clients who hold an account(s) with other Stratos Group entities (Stratos Trading Pty. Limited, Stratos South Africa…
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No, they are not. This ban only impacts certain categories of clients.
FXCM will continue to offer Crypto CFDs to clients classified as professional and Eligible Counterparty.
Cryptocurrencies are not available for certain categories of clients. Stellar is a platform that was designed to facilitate the transfer of funds instantly, anywhere in the world. The lumen, often abbreviated XLM, is the protocol token of the Stellar network.…
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CRYPTOMAJORS is not available for certain categories of clients. The CryptoMajors basket is a unique product that combines Bitcoin (BTC/USD), Ether (ETH/USD), Litecoin (LTC/USD) and Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCH/USD) into one instrument and is a benchmark designed to reflect…
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Cryptocurrencies are not available for certain categories of clients. Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency that forked from Bitcoin in 2017. It’s one major difference in that the blocks in bitcoin cash's blockchain allow far more space and therefore have the…
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Cryptocurrencies are not available for certain categories of clients. Litecoin is an open-source decentralized digital currency created in 2011, a fork from the Bitcoin core client. Because of the close relationship between the two, many have described Litecoin as being…
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Cryptocurrencies are not available for certain categories of clients. Ether is the digital currency used by Ethereum, a decentralised platform that runs smart contracts. Ether is the fuel or “gas” used to pay for transactions made on the Ethereum platform.…
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Cryptocurrencies are not available for certain categories of clients. Volatility, Market Gapping and Slippage Cryptocurrencies have a higher volatility than any other product available to trade at FXCM and market liquidity will fluctuate. As a result, jumps in price are…
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Cryptocurrencies are not available for certain categories of clients. Bitcoin is a global form of digital currency. Unlike traditional currencies, which were frequently backed by gold and silver, bitcoin is based on distributed computing. While traditional currencies are printed by…
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