Kawase is an online brokerage registered in Cyprus that provides financial trading contracts for difference (CFD) on the

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, ETFs, major indices and

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such as

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;

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and

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. Kawase accommodates its financial services to both retail and institutional clients. The company is regulated by CySEC and is authorised by a number of regulatory authorities thus falls under the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (

MiFID Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 20142014/65/EU commonly known as MiFID 2 (Markets in financial instruments directive 2), is a legal act of the European Union. Together with Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 it provides a legal framework fo ...

Products and Services

Kawase offer its traders with its own

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to trade from being the winner of the 'Best Retail Platform 2013’ at the FX Week e-FX awards in New York. The company's platform, provides ECN traders with greater price depth and

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(VWAP). Kawase have also focused on mobile trading with mobile apps for both

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and Android. The Kawase Apps offer news, support and account management functions. Kawase is connected to its own aggregator, which is linked to 12+ of the world's leading banks to provide deep liquidity and offer 15+ stock exchanges.

Trading Facilities

Kawase develops and maintains its own trading platform and

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aggregation technology in-house by the group IT arm, which has been innovating and leading the finance market for the past 5 years., the group has invested more than US$50 Million and have a technical staff of 120 spread across 3 continents. Taking into consideration, Kawase by its numbers the total value of all client's open positions combined Net Open Positions limit reaches $825 million.

Regulatory information

Kawase is regulated by CySEC under licence number 138/11 also authorised by a number of regulatory authorities and falls under the

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’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive

. Kawase is also registered with the regulators of 25 EU member states. As a consequence, the company is fully registered with

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and also a registered member with the

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(FCA) under reference number 579491 along with Banque De France.

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External links

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Financial services companies established in 2010 Financial derivative trading companies Foreign exchange companies