contracts for difference

Funds management

CFDs/FX trading contracts with ASIC product intervention

While inflows of new traders and reactivators have tapered in the contracts for difference and foreign exchange space, 33% are trading cryptocurrency, according to Invest...

Financial planning

CFD leverage reduced

The corporate regulator’s contracts for difference product intervention order now allows maximum leverage available to retail clients to range from 30:1 to a 2:1 dependin...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC warns retail investors against playing volatile markets

There has been an upsurge in retail investors seeking to time the market in pursuit of quick profits and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned t...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC proposes ban on retail binary options and CFDs

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has proposed a ban on the sale of binary options and contracts for difference to retail clients....