It's Official: NFA Hikes Minimum Cap Requirement to $5 Million
Only days after the President of the NFA
told the Congress he wanted them to raise the minimum capital
requirement to $20 million the CFTC signed off on the NFA's current
capital requirement increase to $5 million. And they are not waiting
around till 2008. Firms need to have the money in the bank by DECEMBER.
That's right around the corner.
With the forex industry rapidly changing before our very eyes I wanted
to put together a much more comprehensive list of the industry's
financial status. Therefore, I have included every single registered
Forex Dealer member and listed their Adjusted Net Capital. Since I
first started posting about the NFA
proposal over a dozen firms have gone out of business. Two others have
merged and several others are staring death in the face. It is
astonishing that firms like Hamilton Williams (Velocity FX) can operate
only $4,000 above the minimum needed to stay in business. How on earth
can such a firm survive a few months from now when they're practically
pushing up the daisies already? Here is the direct link for the CFTC
capital reports:
http://www.cftc.gov/marketreports/financialdataforfcms/ Firms Under $5 MillionAll these firms are reporting adjusted net capital below the $5 million
mark as of the latest CFTC report. Some should be able to raise the
necessary capital. Others clearly will not. Which ones can and can't
will be anybody's guess. Already one of these firms, One World Capital,
is not allowing customers to withdraw money.
Hamilton Williams ($1,004,000)
IG Financial Markets ($1,010,000)
Advanced Markets ($1,042,000)
One World Capital ($1,078,000)
Direct Forex ($1,117,000)
SNC Investments ($1,130,000)
Wall Street Derivatives ($1,220,000)
I Trade FX LLC ($1,801,000)
Solid Gold Financial ($1,955,000)
CMC Markets ($2,330,000)
MB Trading ($2,393,000)
GFS Futures & Forex ($3,259,000)
E FX Options ($3,342,000)
Forex Club ($3,715,000)
Easy Forex ($4,731,000)
Firms Under $20 MillionThese firms all meet the coming minimum adjusted net capital
requirement. However, there are other capital requirements that as
market makers these firms (HotSpot excepted in some cases) will need to
meet in addition to the minimum $5 million. Most firms will likely need
$10 million to be in compliance with the NFA's rules. Clearly firms
like Money Garden are not in the clear just yet.
Money Garden ($5,162,000)
HotSpot FX ($5,990,000)
IKon ($7,130,000)
ODL Securities ($10,822,000)
CMS Forex ($11,849,000)
IFX Markets ($12,293,000)
PFG Forex ($12,781,000)
FX Solutions ($15,077,000)
Firms Over $20 MillionThese are the most well capitalized firms in the industry and two years
from now may very well be the only firms left in the industry if Dan
Roth and the NFA have their way and increase cap requirements to $20 million.
Interbank FX ($25,178,000)
Gain Capital (29,061,000)
Forex Liquidity ($39,909,000)
FXCM ($50,465,000)
Oanda ($50,837,000)
GFT Forex ($54,662,000)
Firms No Longer in BusinessThese are the firms that have gone out of business. That's a quarter of the industry in just a few
months. And one of those firms, Nations LLC, has gone into bankruptcy
and customers can't get their money back, and may never get their money
back.
Bacera Corporation
Cal Financial Corporation
FiniFX
Forward Forex
FX Option1 Inc.
Nations Investments
Performance Capital International
Spencer Financial
Tradex Swiss AG
Trend Commodities
United Global Markets
Worldwide Clearing
Firms that MergedThese are the firms that could not make the new capital requirement on
their own and decided to merge with larger players as a result.
American National Trading Corp (Merged with PFG)
Royal Forex Trading (Merging with IKON)
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Apakah pandangan anda tentang article ini??...
Mari kita semua perbincangkan..
Ada pihak yg menyatakan bahawa kita kena tunggu sehingga 17.12.2007 sebelum deposit live trading account ngn mane2 broker forex..Ini adalah utk memastikan mana2 firm akan mematuhi syarat minimum capital requirement yg di tetapkan oleh NFA..
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