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Heather McLean

Before potential customers evaluate an FX platform, they should first evaluate the providing broker themselves, claims Farooq Muzammal, head of foreign exchange and bullion at MAREX Financial

He states: “Success in this area relies on ensuring you have done comprehensive due diligence on your broker, ensured that you have evaluated your own trading style, and found a broker where you have safety of funds and a good stable platform to execute

Go for broker

In terms of today’s regulatory environment, Hayel Abu-Hamdan, head of business development for North America and Asia-Pacific at MIG Investments, comments that the length of time the broker has been around is important

“As some trading platforms are now relatively cheap, there are forex brokers popping up everywhere
The market is transparent these days so the bad ones are soon found out