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The US will celebrate annual Thanksgiving Holiday on Thursday, November 26^th. For special market closures on Thursday and Friday please check Trading Breaks Calendar.

We remain true to our September announcement to release JForex4 in small, but important steps.

After the recent launch of Hong Kong stock-CFDs, Dukascopy is expanding the choice of Asian-Pacific titles even further. A set of Japanese CFD equities have just been added. Clients of Dukascopy are invited to experience 56 new trading instruments including companies such as Sony, Toyota and Canon. This brings the total number of instruments available for trading to 727.

Another important update of the JForex trading platform is the reduction of minimum trade sizes.
The following Index CFDs have new minimum trade and trade size increment of 0.1 contracts: USA30.IDX/USD, DEU.IDX/USD, CHI.IDX/USD and HKG.IDX/HKD.
Minimum trade size for USTBOND.TR/USD, BUND.TR/EUR and UKGILT.TR/GBP was reduced from 100 to 10 contracts, the new trade size increment is 1 and BTC/USD can now be traded in amounts and in increments as little as 0.01.

These improvements and many others are all part of our next generation - JForex4 platform. It is designed as wide-range multi-product-platform with improved functionality, capable to meet the needs of both professional and retail traders.

Stay tuned for the next JForex4 news!

We are delighted to announce that Dukascopy Bank has signed a partnership with Taiwan-based blockchain security firm CoolBitX Ltd. to participate in the development and implementation of Sygna Bridge. A simple and secure portal for compliant data sharing, Sygna Bridge allows “Virtual Asset Service Providers” (VASPs) to comply with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) “travel rule”.

The leverage decreased earlier facing US elections and is now reconsidered to the following levels:

• Index CFDs and Gold (XAU/USD) - leverage is increased to 1:50
• Silver (XAG/USD) - leverage remains at 1:30

These levels will remain in force until further notice.

On Sunday 1^st 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):

• USA30.IDX/USD
• USA500.IDX/USD
• USATECH.IDX/USD
• USSC2000.IDX/USD
• DOLLAR.IDX/USD
• JPN.IDX/JPY
   
• BRENT.CMD/USD
• LIGHT.CMD/USD
• GAS.CMD/USD
• DIESEL.CMD/USD
• COPPER.CMD/USD
• SOYBEAN.CMD/USX
• COTTON.CMD/USX
• OJUICE.CMD/USX
   
• XAU/USD
• XAG/USD
   
• USTBOND.TR/USD
   
• Stocks US CFD
• U.S. ETFs CFD

Please be aware that market opening of our systems and daily settlement will be changed to 22:00 GMT on that date.

Dukascopy Bank has signed a new partner for its Open Banking ecosystem. This is already the third crypto exchange partnership after SCX  and ZBX within the same framework of the relationship. The partnership principle is based on the simple concept – every private person may open a standard MCA account at Dukascopy Bank and separately an account at the Exchange. Further, the client links both accounts together so that the MCA account becomes the safe custody of fiat funds for the operations with crypto at the partner Exchange. The Bank processes the fiat part of transactions between the client and the Exchange, while the Exchange is in charge of crypto part of transactions. Thanks to API integration between the parties, crypto-fiat parts of transactions are instant and aligned. The Bank and the Exchange independently apply the strictest AML/KYC control for the shared client and client’s transactions.

The partnership with the Bank will permit Bitsonic Exchange (South Korea) to add a broad range of high-quality banking services for its clients in South Korea and elsewhere. Simultaneously, the clients of Dukascopy Bank will get the opportunity to buy and sell tens of cryptocurrencies using the advanced platform of Bitsonic while keeping their fiat funds under the secure custody of the Multi-Currency Account (MCA) at the Bank.    
 

On Sunday 25 October daylight saving time ends and clocks in Europe are turned back one hour. 

Trading hours will follow winter schedule for the following European CFD markets (Indices, Commodities, Bonds and Stocks):

• DEU.IDX/EUR
• GBR.IDX/GBP
• FRA.IDX/EUR
• EUS.IDX/EUR
• ESP.IDX/EUR
• CHE.IDX/CHF
• NLD.IDX/EUR
• PLN.IDX/PLN
   
• COFFEE.CMD/USX
• COCOA.CMD/USD
• SUGAR.CMD/USD
   
• BUND.IDX/EUR
• UKGILT.TR/GBP
   
• Stocks Austria CFD
• Stocks  Belgium CFD
• Stocks  Denmark CFD
• Stocks Germany CFD
• Stocks  Finland CFD
• Stocks  France CFD
• Stocks  Netherlands CFD
• Stocks  Norway CFD
• Stocks  Portugal CFD
• Stocks  Spain CFD
• Stocks  Sweden CFD
• Stocks  Switzerland CFD
• Stocks  UK CFD

Dukascopy Bank is announcing that the staking coin reward rate reduction previously broadcasted is in force starting from October 1^st, 2020. Current rates will be kept until the end of 2020, click on the link to review them. Depending on the size of the staking deposit, the current reward rate gradually grows from a minimum value of 20% to a maximum value of 70%.

The preliminary date for the next 10% coin reward rate reduction for large size one-year staking deposits is 01.01.2021. Three-month deposits reward rates will be adjusted proportionally.

The Bank does not plan to change the current reward rates for one year and three-month EUR reward staking deposits (0.50 EUR and 0.10 EUR respectively for every Dukascoin allocated).

The Staking reward program provides extremely attractive remuneration and the Bank invites clients to benefit from it.

Dukascopy Bank would like to inform current and potential participants of the Dukascoin reward programs that starting from 1^st of October, 2020 reward rates schedule for the new coin reward staking deposits will be changed. The new income schedule remains deposit size dependent and be represented as follow:

• 1 000 deposited Dukascoins - 20% coin reward for 1 year deposit and 3.5% for a 3 month deposit;
• 2 000 - 30% and 5% respectively;
• 3 000 - 40% and 6.5% respectively;
• 4 000 - 50% and 8% respectively;
• 6 000 - 60% and 9.5% respectively;
• 10 000 - 70% and 11% respectively.

Bank guarantees that following change will not affect deposits allocated before 1^st of October, 2020. For those who are considering joining the coin reward program with current more lucrative rates there are 2 weeks left to decide!

Starting from the 11^th of September 2020 Dukascopy Bank and Dukascopy Europe expand trading hours for margin trading on BTC/USD, ETH/USD and LTC/USD. These are the first-ever instruments to be tradable over-the-weekend through Dukascopy platforms. It also replaces the existing rule to close all crypto-pair positions before the weekend. To further increase the appeal of crypto trading, Dukascopy has secured a significant reduction of the spread on BTC/USD.
 
This improvement and many others represent a decision of the bank to upgrade its JForex3 trading platform in favor of next generation - JForex4.

Please beware of reduced liquidity and special trading breaks for CFD's and Bullion on Monday 7^th of September 2020 due to Labor day celebrations in the US.

The detailed market closures can be found here.

The Bank has published its interim financial statement H1 2020. The figures demonstrate extraordinary and continuous growth in trading revenues and net profit. In Q2, the Bank recorded the strongest results ever. In composition with the outstanding results from Q1, the Bank recorded the best financial results for H1 in the history of its existence.

The Bank's net profit for the first six months of 2020 was CHF 12.5 million, which is 17 times higher compared to the net profit for the same period of last year. Revenues from trading activities in first six months increased by 82 percent compared to the same period of last year. This growth is a result of increased client trading activity in response to strong volatility on financial markets.

The interim balance sheet and income statement of Dukascopy Bank and Dukascopy Group are available via this link.

Dukascopy is expanding its list of instruments with a set of Hong Kong equities. The updated list of trading instruments includes FX, precious metals, CFD on commodities, indices, bonds, crypto currency and stocks from 15 countries including Hong Kong.
With this update clients will be able to trade 26 new instruments and the total amount of instruments has reached 667.

The maximum leverage for Hong Kong equities at Dukascopy Bank is 1:10, it is 1:5 for clients of Dukascopy Europe.

More detailed information about SWAP rates, trading breaks and trading conditions is found on the website.
Total list of newly added CFDs can be found here.

Dukascopy will continue to extend its list of trading instruments to meet customer's requests.

Starting August 10, 2020, Dukascopy Bank together with UPS introduce lower fees for express worldwide plastic cards delivery. The new delivery fee will be 10 CHF, meaning a 50% reduction compared to the previous fee of 20 CHF. Dukascopy Bank is grateful to UPS for this collaboration and expects that Dukascopy Bank clients will benefit from enjoying an even more comfortable, cost effective and reliable way to order plastic cards worldwide.

Cards will be shipped from Switzerland and delivered personally by a courier to the cardholder, usually in a few working days, depending on the destination country. For each order clients will have a separate tracking code which allows them to track the real-time order location.

A new White-Label partner of Dukascopy Bank has started its operation in Ukraine. The bank PJSC “Bank SICH” has extended its product range with a Forex/CFD trading solution powered by Dukascopy Bank. It will operate under the brand name “PowerBank®Trade”, being regulated by the National Bank of Ukraine.

Please beware of reduced liquidity and special trading breaks for CFD's and Bullion on Friday 3^rd of July 2020 due to Independence Day celebrations in the US. The detailed market closures can be found here.

Due to the increased geopolitical tensions around Hong-Kong, Dukascopy Bank decided to reduce leverage on CFD of the Hong Kong index HKG.IDX/HKD to the level of 1:10.

This measure will become effective at 12:00 GMT, on Monday, 29 June 2020.

We invite all traders with open positions in HKG.IDX/HKD to consider the necessary adjustment of their exposure before this time.

The reduced leverage will stay in force until further notice.