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About Alpari

 

Alpari is one of the fastest growing providers of foreign exchange (Forex, FX) online trading services,  serving retail and institutional investors, with operations in London, New York, Shanghai, Dubai, Mumbai, Kiev and Moscow, 500 employees, 27 offices in 8 countries, more than 130,000 live accounts and monthly trading volumes in excess of USD 75 Billions.

 

Creation

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Alpari Group was founded in 1998 in Russia by three visionary leaders in Forex and Online Trading technologies: Andrey Vedikhin, Andrey Dashin and Gleb Petrov.

With the aim of expanding the group’s global footprint, Alpari’s shareholders established operations in other world financial centres.

Alpari (UK) Limited was established in 2004 and is registered in the United Kingdom with its head office based in the City of London (Registration Number: 5284142). Alpari (UK) is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority since 2006 (FSA Register Number 448002).

Alpari (US) was established In 2006. Alpari (US) is located on Wall Street in New York, and is registered by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) and is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA).

Alpari China, in Shanghai, and Alpari Emirates, in Dubai, were established in 2008. Alpari Emirates is duly licensed by the Department of Economic Development, Dubai.

In 2009, Alpari plans to further extend operations in India, Japan, Singapore, Canada, British Columbia, and Brazil.

Mission and Vision

Alpari’s mission is to deliver Institutional-Level Trading services to all its customers, whether they are institutional clients or individual retail investors, by providing innovative proprietary technology, low cost trading, regulation, safety of customers funds, comprehensive market research tools, advanced educational programs and world-class customer services.

Alpari proudly aims to become not only the leading worldwide FX broker in terms of volume and number of accounts within two years, but also a global player by offering a large variety of financial instruments, as well as comprehensive money management services.

The company has already begun to establish this business model in Russia, and is now expanding with operations in London, New York, Shanghai, Dubai, and soon Mumbai, Singapore, and Tokyo.

They expect to have the framework in place in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia within the next 12 months.

 

Results

Alpari (UK)’s continued investments in proprietary institutional-level technology, comprehensive trading tools, advanced educational services as well as in dedicated world-class client services have been the catalysts behind the impressive growth.

In spite of the deteriorating financial climate, Alpari (UK) serves a growing number of customers worldwide, which has dramatically grown by 897% in 2008; the company aims to sustain the Live Accounts’ growth rate at a minimum of 500% throughout 2009.

 

Institutional Level Service Offering

Alpari (UK) offers Olnline Trading in Forex via MetaTrader 4 (MT4), one of the world’s most recognised Forex trading platforms for stability and reliability. MT4 is highly regarded and very popular among traders as they enjoy a variety of useful features including Expert Advisors and custom indicators, a complete technical analysis package, professional charting tools and quotes history for back testing.

MT4 was developed by MetaQuotes Software Corporation in 2000 and, from the earliest days, enhanced by Alpari with a number of proprietary plug-ins and add-ons. Growing from the domestic to the global Retail Forex market dominance thanks to its superior Technical Analysis Package, Alpari’s MT4 currently enables automatic hedging, floating leverage, faster execution and superior reliability.

In the context of today’s FX market, Alpari (UK) has implemented a prime brokerage model in order to deliver a high quality, efficient and low cost trading service for all its clients. With a combination of Straight Through Processing (STP), Non Dealing Desk (NDD), and stable high quality price feeds from the largest financial institutions, Alpari (UK) is able to pass on the efficiencies and low cost execution, usually reserved for banks and corporations, to all clients.

Alpari also provides the Online Trading community with free access to all the educational (alpari.academy) and trading tools (alpari.research) they need to deal in today’s fast moving financial market place.

Alpari Academy, Alpari (UK)’s new offering is two-pronged: Comprehensive video tutorials and webinars, provided by Learning Markets, an impartial provider of high quality online educational information, will be freely available for the whole online trading community. This online material will be supplemented by traditional, institutional-level seminars hosted by Schneider Trading Associates (STA), an industry leading global trading facilitation company authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

By offering these institutional-level educational and market research services, Alpari (UK) is more than ever able to ensure its clients have an informed and responsible online FX trading experience.

 

Alpari in the Forex Market

The Foreign Exchange Market (Forex, FX) is the arena in which a nation's currency is exchanged for that of another at a mutually agreed rate. It was created in the 1970's and is now considered to be the largest financial market in the world because of its huge turnover. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the average daily turnover in global foreign exchange markets is estimated to be $3.98 trillion.

The internet has brought FX trading to a wider range of investors. Whereas participation used to be limited to banks and other major institutions, the Internet has extended the range of FX traders all the way down to retail investors. Retail Forex, or the “off-exchange market” segment, is estimated to be 2% of the total Forex market with daily trading volumes of $60-$80 billion.

In spite of today's deteriorating financial climate, volatility creates trading opportunities for Forex Online Traders which in turn generate trading revenue for Alpari. In 2008, Alpari Group celebrated its 10th birthday and posted record daily trading volumes in excess of $2.6 billion, spurred by a substantial worldwide increase in both individual traders and money managers’ accounts.

 

Regulation

The Alpari Group has placed a strong emphasis on regulations compliance to ensure a high level of client protection.

Alpari was established in Russia, where it was a founding member of the Financial Regulations Agency (KROUFR).

Alpari (UK) is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority since 2006 (FSA Register Number 448002). Alpari (UK)’s status as an FSA regulated firm means that the company’s clients can make a claim from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) in the event that Alpari (UK) is unable to meet financial obligations (visit www.fscs.org.uk for more information). Alpari (UK) customers are further protected, with the first USD 5,000 of each customer’s funds held in a segregated account.

Alpari (US) is registered by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) and is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA).

Alpari Emirates is duly licensed by the Department of Economic Development, Dubai.

 

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