- 17 Dec 2021
Geopolitical Risks involving Russia
After increased geopolitical tension between Ukraine and Russia, the associated market risks cause Dukascopy Bank to change its margin requirements and exposure limits on selected instruments as of Friday 24 December 15:00 GMT: USD/RUB and EUR/RUB: Leverage 1:5 from 1:10, unchanged maximum exposure limit of 1 million. BRENT.CMD/USD, LIGHT.CMD/USD, DIESEL.CMD/USD: Leverage 1:20 from 1:30. The maximum exposure limit for JForex
- 16 Dec 2021
Dukascopy Bank's fiat settlement for P2P crypto-fiat exchange operations
The Dukascopy Bank has developed a new framework for secure settlement of money for the P2P crypto-fiat exchange operations between clients. Dukascopy Bank regularly receives requests from its clients to send or receive money related to P2P crypto-fiat exchange transactions in blockchain. The P2P crypto-fiat exchange is usually based on an individual agreement between two blockchain wallet holders. Crypto currency
- 23 Nov 2021
THANKSGIVING DAY IN THE US
The US will celebrate annual Thanksgiving Holiday on Thursday, November 25th. For special market closures on Thursday and Friday please check Trading Breaks Calendar.
- 04 Nov 2021
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS IN US
On Sunday 7th of November daylight saving time ends and clocks in the United States are turned back one hour. Trading hours will follow winter schedule for the following CFDs (Indices, Commodities, Bullions, Bonds, Stocks and ETFs). Please be aware that market opening of our systems and daily settlement will be changed to 22:00 GMT on that date.
- 02 Nov 2021
10 new crypto currencies and improved overnight rates
Dukascopy continues its crypto expansion by significantly improving its overnights rates for crypto instruments together with launching trading for 10 new crypto currency pairs: • ADA/USD Cardano vs US Dollar • AVE/USD Aave vs US Dollar • BAT/USD Basic Attention Token vs US Dollar • CMP/USD Compound vs US Dollar • LNK/USD Chainlink vs US Dollar • MAT/USD Polygon vs US Dollar • MKR/USD Maker vs US
- 29 Oct 2021
Daylight Saving Time ends in Europe.
Clocks will be set back 1 hour this Sunday 31st of October in many European countries. Please be aware that Winter time will be applied for EU CFDs. The US will change clocks next week.
- 08 Oct 2021
NEW CRYPTO INSTRUMENTS AVAILABLE ON MT4 PLATFORM
Dukascopy expands its list of cryptocurrencies for MT4 trading accounts. In addition to BTC/USD, ETH/USD, LTC/USD, BCH/USD and XLM/USD, four new instruments have been added: DSH/USD (Dashcoin), EOS/USD (EOS), TRX/USD (TRON) and XMR/USD (Monero). The new instruments are already available for trading on Demo and Live accounts.
- 06 Oct 2021
Trading commissions reduction
Dukascopy has significantly reduced the volume commission rates for traders. This trading conditions improvement is aimed at creating an extremely competitive environment for traders with deposits bigger than one million USD and on trading volume makers. The updated rates together with improved criteria can be found on the website.
- 03 Sep 2021
Market closures on Labor Day in the United States
Please beware of reduced liquidity and special trading breaks for CFD's and Bullion on Monday 6th of September 2021 due to Labor day celebrations in the US. The detailed market closures can be found here.
- 02 Sep 2021
Account funding in Tether (USDT) and higher crypto deposit limits
Dukascopy Bank is extending the range of funding methods available to clients by adding the ERC20 Tether token (USDT). This becomes the 3rd crypto-currency after Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), which can be used to deposit and withdraw funds from a trading account opened as “crypto-fundable”. The crypto-currency (USDT, ETH or BTC) is the payment vehicle, at arrival it is