CySEC changed its stance on the status of binary options and announced plans to regulate binary brokers on Friday, May 3rd following months of speculation and denials as the organization had previously claimed that these instruments did not fall under their bailiwick.

On April 2, 2012, the US Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a directive to prevent the North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex) from offering so-called “political event outcome binary options” to retail investors.

Binary broker AnyOption.com recently unveiled a new feature on their trading platform that gives traders the opportunity to profit from Facebook’s upcoming initial public offering by offering Above/Below binary option contracts on the value of the social networking company the day it goes public.

The US’s first regulated online binary options exchange, the North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex), announced yesterday that they would be launching a redesigned version of their website.

Renowned forex and binary broker GFT Global Markets UK Ltd., announced on Friday, January 27th that starting on February, 13, 2012 the closing time for the broker’s binary FX markets will be moved up from 2:58 PM EST to 1:58 PM EST.

SpotOption-powered binary broker TradeRush.com recently updated the list of underlying assets for which the broker offers binary option contracts with 60-second expiries.

Binary betting website BetOnMarkets.com has recently announced that they have added two new payment methods, ClickandBuy and iPoint, to their arsenal of deposit and withdrawal methods in order to offer bettors the widest variety of ways to trade the financial markets using their binary betting platform.

One of the biggest brokers in the industry, GFTUK.com is now offering new traders refunds on their first two losing trades after opening an account. This promotion is yet another great reason to start binary trading with GFT.

WinOptions.com, a binary options trading website, recently moved trading platforms from the LightsStreamer-powered trading interface that also powers EZTrader.com to the Reuters-powered trading application that SpotOption provides.

TradeSmarter, StartOptions, and OptionFire – three binary option brokers that operated as Authorized Representatives of the Commodity Broking Services Pty. Ltd. – lost their status as regulated Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) brokers as of last week.

For the next week only, 24Option will offer new traders a 100% risk-free binary option trade when they open their first binary position on the 24Option platform. By risk-free trade, the broker is offering traders the ability to be refunded 100% of their investment amount should their option finish out-of-the-money at its expiry.

If you’re in the market for some profit-generating binary options signals, you ought to check out BinaryOptionsSignal.com’s offer this week, October 24-28th. They are offer two free signals each day this week between the hours of 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM EST.

What happens when a forex broker decides to offer binary option trading to its clients on its existing trading platform? If you want to know the answer, go to InstaForex.com and see for yourself. Instaforex, one of the leading global forex brokers, just announced a new innovation: InstaForex traders will now also be able to invest in binary options using their preexisting trading accounts.

The Greek government acknowledged yesterday that it will miss its deficit targets this year. Under pressure from the troika, Greece has also agreed to take some extra €6.6 billion in new austerity measures in 2011 and 2012 to bring its budget back on track.

A structured Greek default is now in the works and has a tentative timing, the first week of November. The G-20 and IMF discussions in Washington have reportedly resulted in enough pressure on Europe to go forward with what the markets have already viewed as inevitable.