The retail FX brokerage sector in Australia is without doubt one of the success stories of online retail financial services. For almost two decades, Australia has been steadily and pragmatically building its reputation and global standing as a benchmark for retail FX and CFD trading. A first class business culture, thriving national economy, increasingly prudent and well structured regulations for electronic trading firms, and perhaps most importantly, close trade ties with the FX industry’s golden egg: China and the Asia Pacific region. Recently, the Australian regulator of non bank financial services, ASIC, took ... (full story)