2011: Alpari Steps Up to the Big Leagues

• January — Alpari announces an increase in the number of cash prizes and the annual prize pool in its trading contests. Alpari (US) becomes an official sponsor of the the New York Knicks (basketball) and the New York Rangers (hockey). The Alpari brand is advertised in Madison Square Garden.
• February — Alpari zTrader is released on the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad, giving Alpari's clients access to the popular automatic trading platform, ZuluTrade, from virtually anywhere on the planet. A stand-alone version of the MT4 Autochartist Indicator is also introduced. Alpari (UK) sponsors one of the largest events in the world of Forex: the London Investor Show.
• March — Alpari begins to take advantage of a new partnership with one of the world's leading news agencies, introducing an economic calendar with information straight from Thomson Reuters. A new trading terminal is released for the iPhone and iPad touch: Alpari iTrader. Alpari Projects™ is launched, allowing our clients to take an active role in the development of our trading technology. Our first ever project is Alpari aTrader, a trading terminal for Android OS. The Alpari brand takes part in one of the largest jewelry and precious metal exhibitions in the world: the Istanbul Jewelry Show.
• April — Alpari UK announces its acquisition of CMS Japan KK (renamed Alpari Japan) and takes home two awards at the Banker Middle East Product Awards: “Best Forex Broker” and “Best New Institutional Product”. Alpari releases a new Autochartist plug-in for MetaTrader 4. Two new trading terminals are released: Alpari iTrader for the iPhone and WebTrader, a browser-based terminal.
• May — The monthly trading volume of the Alpari brand reaches 210 billion USD. GLD-denominated PAMM Accounts are released. Alpari Financial Services opens.
• June — Alpari US is named the “Best Latin America Forex Broker” at the prestigious 2011 IBTimes Trading Awards. Alpari UK wins two awards at the same show: “Best Forex Broker UK” and “Forex Broker Europe – Excellence Award”. For the fourth time, Alpari is named the “Forex Company of the Year” at the Financial Elite of Russia Awards.
• July — Three Alpari UK managers are named in The Exchange's list of the “The 50 Most Influential People in Spread Betting Forex and CFDs 2011”: CEO Andrey Vedikhin, Head of Market Research George Tchetvertakov and Senior Market Analyst James Hughes. Financial blog Forex Magnates lists Alpari as one of the world’s top 5 Forex brokers in terms of trading volume. Alpari UK signs on to sponsor the Football League Championship’s West Ham United. The Alpari aTrader mobile application is released for Android devices.
• August — Alpari releases Alpari bTrader for BlackBerry smartphones and an updated version of iTrader.
• October — Alpari US opens an office in Chicago. Alpari is named the “Forex Broker of the Year” at the 2011 Financial Supermarket Awards.
• November — Alpari FS and Alpari UK take part in the 9th ME Forex & Investment Summit 2011 in Abu Dhabi, taking home awards in the categories “Best Forex Broker” and “Best PAMM Provider”. Alpari UK is named the “Best FX Broker” at the 2011 Shares Awards. Alpari is recognized for its “Superiority in the Industry and Sterling Reputation” at the 2011 Moscow Forex Expo. Alpari launches the PAMM Account™ 5 Service.
• December — Alpari sponsors Kazan’s Dinamo-Energy rugby club at the Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby Sevens tournament. With more than 104 thousand clients in Russia, Alpari is listed as the country’s largest Forex broker in a report from Interfax.

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  The Beginning

  September 1998 - The government has just defaulted on its loans. The ruble is rapidly depreciating. The stock market is on the verge of total collapse. Russia's financial sector has come to a standstill.

  26a Ershova St. serves as the financial stronghold of Kazan; home to investment companies, the local pension fund, and the Volzhsko-Kamskaya Stock Exchange. As the economic crisis began to spread throughout Russia, the city's once thriving business center suddenly ground to a halt. The floors of the exchanges, not long ago filled by throngs of enterprising traders, now stood empty. However it is often said that every cloud has a silver lining. Before the crisis, the men who would one day found Alpari were bogged down with work: trading stocks, composing daily reports, and working on market forecasts. Even at their old jobs, Alpari's founding fathers were already beginning to think about how they might be able to take advantage of more predictable markets, insusceptible to default (Forex seemed to be the most attractive option to them). After the crash, all of their market research became virtually worthless. With the Russian financial markets crumbling to the ground around them, they suddenly found the time they needed to delve deeper into the foreign exchange market. And they were soon off and running!

  They tediously worked on making sense of the currency market. Over time they learned new strategies to make profitable trades and they soon began taking notes, which they would later use in their first lectures. They visited existing dealing centers in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, and Volgograd. After all of this work, they were still relatively inexperienced, but they had managed to learn the fundamentals of technical analysis and acquire a talented staff, both of which would later help pave the way to Alpari's future success.

  On December 24th, 1998, Andrey Vedikhin, Gleb Petrov and Alexander Sadovnik decided that it was time for their upstart dealing center to open its doors to the public. To this day, we celebrate Alpari's birthday on December 24th.

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  1999: Our First Students, Our First Transaction on Forex

  In 1999, Alpari decided to let Russia know that there was a new player in the currency market, holding its first Forex seminars in January. Employees of banks and investment companies were invited to attend. Also in attendance were private investors, many of whom were old colleagues of ours from the Russian stock exchanges. Some of these attendees would later become our first clients.

  • January 1999 — The Back Office system and a new call center are created, headed by Olga Rybalkina.
  • February 8, 1999 — Gleb Petrov and Andrey Vedikhin lead our first course ever, which consists of two weeks of lectures and two weeks of practice. The course is called, "Theory and Practice of International Financial Markets."
  • March 5, 1999 — We make our first trade on the Forex market. After painstaking technical analysis, Andrey Vedikhin makes the decision to go short, betting on the Euro’s rise against the US dollar. The prediction holds up and 53 pips were ours!
  • March 12, 1999 — One week later, our first client makes his first transaction. He also bet on the Euro, and he too came out on top!

  Of course, Alpari ran into its fair share of hurdles in its first year. Every profitable trade we made seemed to be followed by a loss. Looking back, it's sometimes hard to imagine how we even managed to make any trades at all. The process you once had to go through to complete a transaction was unbelievable! Our traders used to sit on the trading floor at a terminal. When they wanted to make a trade, they first had to call the operator. The operator would then reconnect them to our broker in London (IG Index at the time) and relay the client’s request. To complicate things even further, the minimum contract at the time was 100,000 units of the base currency and the spread was 10 pips. With conditions like these, you can probably imagine that it wasn't always smooth sailing for our first clients.

  Another important event occurred in July 1999, when Aytugan Khafizov joined our team after a thorough screening process.

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  2000: The Move to Online Trading

  We soon began to realize that if we didn’t find an online trading platform, we would remain a provincial dealing center, known only to those in the financial circles of Kazan. By keeping a close eye on the needs of our customers as well as the activities our competitors, we knew it was time for us to move our business into the Digital Age.

  2000 was marked by an important meeting with MetaQuotes Software, represented by its founder and spokesperson, Renat Fatkhulin. After the meeting, with little doubt or hesitation, we made the historic decision to go online using the innovative MetaQuotes platform Renat's team had developed.

  • Summer 2000 — We choose a reliable internet provider and begin to install and test our new servers, train our staff and develop our website. One of our clients, Andrey Dashin, joins the ranks of Alpari as a top manager and partner.
  • August 2000 — Alpari's new web site is launched: www.alpari-idc.ru (Before 2000, we only had a page on our internet provider's web site).
  • November 2000 — Our first online trade is completed on the MetaQuotes trading platform. At this point in time, Alpari offered only 11 currency pairs, most of them with a spread of 5 pips.
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  2001-2002: The Move to Moscow, the Launch of the Forum and Our First Traders’ Contest

  In 2001, Alpari's growing reputation for high-quality services, as well as our new internet advertising campaign, began to bring in our first clients from outside of the region of Tatarstan (where Kazan is located). Accounts began to be opened up in every corner of Russia; in Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Kaliningrad, Magadan, St. Petersburg and Moscow. Some of our clients became certified partners of Alpari, opening up new offices in their towns. Many of these locations failed to stand the test of time, but others are still in business to this date.

  By the fall of 2001, Alpari's management began to realize that it was growing too large for its regional corporate structure. More and more clients were starting to pour in from Moscow. In October, the Alpari team began preparing to make the move to Russia's political and financial capital, by making several technical and organizational changes.

  • March 2001 — The first Alpari Trader's Contest begins.
  • April 2001 — Alpari's first certified partner opens up an office in Ulyanovsk.
  • June 2001 — Trading servers are moved to Moscow to improve connection quality.
  • September 2001 — An office opens up in Samara.
  • November 19, 2001 — An Alpari office opens in Moscow, offering training, account services, and consultation in an office near Chistye Prudy.

  Alpari's rapid growth in 2001 gave us the chance to develop and expand our team of professionals. In 2002 we began to focus on hiring and training new employees and streamlining our business processes. By the end of 2002, we had outgrown our office in Kazan and made the decision to finally move our headquarters to Moscow.

  • April 2, 2002 — The English language version of our web site first appears.
  • April 9, 2002 — We open the online Forum, allowing clients and visitors to discuss the foreign exchange market, analytical software, and trading strategies.
  • July 2002 — Spreads on AUD/USD, USD/CAD and their cross rates are reduced.
  • September 2002 — Deposit with credit cards is made possible.
  • September - October 2002 — Alpari's headquarters and its technical departments (Technical Support and Dealing) are moved to Moscow.
  • November 2002 — Alpari begins using the MetaTrader trading platform, the latest offering from the team at MetaQuotes Software. At this point in time, it is only available in a demo version.
  • December 2002 — Boris Shilov, an old friend of Alpari and an acquaintance of George Soros (founder of the renowned Quantum Funds Group), joins the company.
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  2003: Expansion into St. Petersburg, Introduction of MetaTrader, Instant Execution, CFDs, Our First International Exposition

  In 2003, we began to move our clients over to the new MetaTrader platform; more user-friendly and offering our clients more features than its predecessor.

  • January 20, 2003 — The new MetaTrader platform is introduced, along with cross rates on mini-Forex and fractional lots on Forex.
  • February 2003 — A new Alpari office is opened in St. Petersburg.
  • March 2003 — Contracts for Difference (CFDs) on individual stocks (from the Dow Jones Industrial Average) are introduced.
  • March 11-12, 2003 — Alpari participates in the 2003 Internet Trading Expo. We still participate in this event annually.
  • April 2003 — Commissions on mini-Forex trading are removed, and the minimum contract on Forex is reduced to 0.1 lots.
  • May 2003 — Index Equity CFDs are introduced. We create our Disputes Department.
  • June 2003 — Stock Index, Futures, and Spot Gold CFDs are introduced. The spread on EUR/USD and USD/JPY is reduced to 4 pips.
  • August 2003 — Deposit and withdrawal using the Yandex.Money payment system is made possible.
  • September 2003 — CFDs are introduced on the following futures contracts: gold, oil, natural gas, wheat, corn, and soy beans.
  • October 1, 2003 — The Viac.ru research and information portal is created.
  • October 2003 — "Instant Execution" technology is implemented for the four main currency pairs. This convenient technology allows a client to make transactions at the broker's streaming prices without having to request the price beforehand. We have since worked on gradually applying this technology to all of our products. Today, all Alpari instruments are traded using Instant Execution.

  We also made some internal changes, moving the Technical Support Department to a 24-hour working schedule and creating the Regional Development Department.

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  2004: Our 10,000th Client, MetaTrader Moves to the PDA, Foundation of the FRA and the Alpari Trading School.

  The most important event of 2004 at Alpari was the founding of the Financial Regulation Agency of Russia (KROUFR), an organization that aims to protect the interests of traders. The focus within our company shifted towards making our internal business processes more effective and improving our level of customer service. Although this year wasn’t very eventful, it helped to lay the foundation for many of our future accomplishments.

  • March 2004 — Alpari becomes the first company in Russia to offer MetaTrader on PDAs, free of charge.
  • March 3, 2004 — A press conference is held at the 2004 Internet Trading Expo (with representatives from Alpari, TeleTrade and Forex-Club) to announce the foundation of the Commission on the Regulation of Relationships between Participants on Financial Markets (KROUFR), created to protect the interests of private investors.
  • March 16, 2004 — An Alpari office opens in Novosibirsk.
  • April 2004 — The 2004 Trader's Contest starts, consisting of 10 rounds, each with a different theme, including Forex, stocks and futures. The overall winner wins the keys to a new Ford Focus.
  • April 19, 2004 — Commission on Share CFDs is cut in half.
  • May 12, 2004 — Alpari and the PRIME-TASS Agency of Economic Information sign an agreement which will allow Alpari to offer economic data from Dow Jones Newswires to its clients.
  • May 26, 2004 — Alpari acts as a Gold Sponsor of the 2004 Forex Forum, held in Moscow at the Radisson SAS Slavyanskaya hotel, on the bank of the Moscow River.
  • May 28, 2004 — A new client office opens in Moscow near the Mayakovskaya Metro station.
  • June 2004 — Alpari moves toward a modular education program and decides to relocate classes. The "Alpari Trading School" is founded.
  • August 2004 — An Alpari office opens in Rostov-on-Don.
  • October 26-27, 2004 — Alpari is a General Sponsor for the Sixth International 2004 Investor Expo.
  • November 26, 2004 — An Alpari office opens in Kiev.
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  2005: “Financial Elite" Award, Our First Book Is Published, Alpari Charitable Fund Established

  Word was beginning to spread about Alpari. First, we were recognized with a "Financial Elite of Russia" award. But perhaps the most important milestone for us in 2005 was our 10,000th customer.

  Alpari's management also decided to begin giving back to the wider community. The Alpari Charitable Fund was created.

  • January 3, 2005 — Spreads for most currency pairs, including EUR/USD and USD/JPY, are reduced to 3 pips. On the same day, a new instrument, a CFD on silver futures, is introduced.
  • January 4, 2005 — We present the winner of the 2004 Trader's Contest with a new Ford Focus.
  • January 31, 2005 — Alpari announces a new season of contests for traders. In addition to the contest with demo accounts, a contest for live accounts is started.
  • March 26, 2005 — In honor of our 10,000th client, a prize is raffled off during the 2005 Internet Trading Expo, held at the Radisson SAS Slavyanovskaya Hotel. Akhmadjan Bahramov of Moscow wins a trip for two to the Canary Islands.
  • April 2005 — Alpari wins the "Financial Elite of Russia" award for "The 2004 Internet Broker of the Year". The award presentation ceremony is held at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • May 12, 2005 — We return to Kazan, with the opening of a new office. Our management team takes part in the opening ceremony, along with some our original clients. At a press-conference, Alpari Vice President, Andrey Vedikhin, shares our short-term objectives: entering the international arena and receiving FSA (UK) authorization.
  • May 2005 — An Alpari office opens in Ekaterinburg.
  • August 2005 — Alpari introduces the new MetaTrader 4 trading platform.
  • September 2005 — We simplify the process for opening a live account (an account is opened as soon as you complete the online application form) and for depositing/withdrawing funds (in the "Workshop", which is now myAlpari).
  • September 26, 2005 — The cross rates, EUR/CAD and EUR/AUD, are introduced, along with indicative quoting on the US Dollar Index (USDX). The spread for the NASDAQ-100 Index Tracking Stock (QQQ) is reduced to 3 pips.
  • October 2005 — "Forex: An Inside View" is published, authored by Andrey Vedikhin, Gleb Petrov and Boris Shilov of the Alpari management team.
  • November 21, 2005 — Seven new currency pairs are introduced: NZD/USD, USD/SEK, USD/DKK, USD/NOK, USD/SGD, USD/ZAR and CHF/JPY.
  • December 2005 — The Alpari Board of Management establishes the Alpari Charitable Fund. Andrey Dashin is appointed as Fund Director. The Real 2005 contest ends. The overall winner is awarded with the grand prize, a Mazda 6.
  • December 20, 2005 — We obtain a broker's license for futures and options trading in the Russian Federation (from the Commodity Exchange Commission under the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) of the Russian Federation).
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  2006: Alpari's Global Expansion: Great Britain, the USA, China, Our 25,000th Live Account

  2006 was the beginning of our international expansion: we took part in an exhibition in China, obtained a license from the FSA, and registered Alpari in the USA.

  • April 2006 — Alpari receives a trophy for "The Best Exhibition Display” at the 2006 Internet Trading Expo.
  • June 2006 — Alpari takes part in the 2006 World Forex Expo in Shanghai, China.
  • July 31, 2006 — From this date on, all of Alpari’s trading instruments are quoted using Instant Execution (streaming prices).
  • August 22, 2006 — Our office in Perm is opened.
  • September 5, 2006 — Alpari's 25,000th real client is registered.
  • September 8, 2006 — The Financial Services Authority (FSA, UK) issues a license to Alpari (UK) Limited to provide online trading services on the Forex market and to trade CFDs.
  • October 2006 — The monthly Russian business magazine, "RBC," ranks Alpari in first place in reliability among Russian dealing centers.
  • November 2006 — Alpari (US) is registered in the state of New York (USA) in order to obtain a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) license from the National Futures Association (NFA) to promote online Forex trading services within the USA.
  • November 1, 2006 — Alpari (UK), Limited opens and begins to work with real clients.
  • November 25, 2006 — We present the book, "Elliott’s Code: Wave Analysis of the Forex Market," at the Third International 2006 Forex Expo. The author is Dmitry Voznuy, a Lead Analyst at Alpari.
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  2007: "Financial Russia 2007" Award, "Philanthropist of the Year," Alpari (US), LLC Is Licensed, alpari.micro Accounts Are Introduced

  • January 2, 2007 — 8 new currency pairs are made available by Alpari.
  • March 5, 2007 — Spreads for most currency pairs are significantly reduced. The spreads for EUR/USD and EUR/GBP are moved to two pips.
  • April 2007 — Alpari appears at the International 2007 Internet Trading Expo shortly after a recent rebranding by the famous Artemy Lebedev Design Studio.
  • August 2007 — - A new, modern Alpari office is opened in the center of Moscow, near the "Novokuznetskaya" Metro station. The entire Customer Service Department is relocated to the new location. We begin offering the micro.mt4 account, giving beginning investors the chance to gain experience trading with real money, with less at risk.
  • September 2007 — 53 currency pairs are now available to trade on alpari.classic accounts.
  • October 2007 — Clients are offered the choice of USD or EUR as their deposit currency when opening alpari.classic and alpari.micro trading accounts. This gives clients the chance to avoid the additional risk associated with the weakening of a particular currency.
  • November 2007 — The Alpari Charitable Fund is awarded as "Philanthropist of the Year" for its contribution to, support of, and participation in charitable activities. The US National Futures Association (National Futures Association — NFA) recognizes Alpari (US), LLC as a Futures Commission Merchant (NFA ID: 0379678). Alpari is also licensed as a broker by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). With this, we take another step towards the formation of the Alpari Global Alliance.
  • December 2007 — Alpari is honored at the National Finance and Insurance Awards, winning an award for the "Best Russian Company of Russia - 2007 - Best Reputation in the Financial Sphere".
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  2008: Our 10th Anniversary, the PAMM Account is Introduced, Alpari Emirates Is Launched, 2 New Books

  • January 2008 — Alpari moves under the command of our new President, Andrey Dashin.
  • February 2008 — A book on the development of philanthropy in Tatarstan, "From the Heart and to the Heart", is published by Alpari Charitable Fund founder, Andrey Dashin.
  • June 2008 — The Deposit Liability Limit is raised to 15,000,000 USD.
  • July 2008 — Alpari participates in the Seliger 2008 Youth Forum, and holds the first trade show in Russia with live online trading.
  • August 2008 — Another company is born under the “Alpari“ brand. Alpari Emirates is licensed by the Dubai Department of Economic Development (License #615466) and is authorized to begin conducting business in Dubai.
  • September 2008 — We widen the selection of our accounts again with the introduction of the alpari.pamm account for Managers and Investors as well as the alpari.partner account for Alpari Partners.
  • November 2008 — Alpari acts as a Platinum Sponsor for the Moscow Forex Expo and begins offering technical analysis reports from Trading Central, one of the world's leading investment research providers. "Stock History" is published, written by Boris Shilov and Sergey Semenov.
  • December 24, 2008 — Alpari celebrates its 10th Anniversary!!!
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  2009: Our 100,000th Live Account, Premium Accounts for VIP clients, the FX+ Project, Automated Web Platform, the Start of Our Partnership with Currenex

  • February 2009 — Alpari arrives in Kazakhstan. The new “Premium“ account is launched, an exclusive offer available to both new and current clients.
  • March 2009 — Alpari introduces floating leverage for all account types. A new partnership program for PAMM Accounts is developed. Spot Silver, a new trading instrument, is made available for every type of account. The 80,000th live account is registered.
  • April 2009 — Alpari breaks the record for most open accounts. We are recognized at the RBC Financial Olympics as having the “Most Innovative Technology on the Forex Market.“ Boris Shilov and Dmitry Rannev publish yet another offering from Alpari, titled “Forex Trading.“
  • May 2009 — Alpari launches the FX+ Project. The Moscow office hosts a meeting with representatives from Trading Central. The website is redesigned.
  • June 2009 — Alpari is honored during the national "Financial Elite of Russia" Awards for the second time, nominated as the “Grand Prix: Forex Company of the Year.“ We also receive the public award “Financial Pearl of Russia” for having the “Best Capital Management Programs.“ Two new offices are opened in Penza and Omsk.
  • July 2009 — The international Alpari brand announces a new partnership with Currenex. We launch the "Alpari Life" project. Alpari opens in Nigeria. We introduce the automated web-platform Systematic and the new alpari.systematic trading accounts. The electronic payment system, Moneybookers, is added as another withdrawal method. On July 29th, our 100,000th live account is opened. In honor of this historic event, we unveil the “100,000” contest, where clients can enter creative works based on the theme, "Alpari and Me". The winner is to be awarded with 100,000 rubles.
  • August 2009— Three deposit currencies (USD,EUR,RUR) are now available for alpari.systematic account. The "100,000" contest finishes up and Timour Ulmasov is declared the winner.
  • September 2009 — Variable spread is introduced for all currency pairs on Classic, Micro, PAMM and Systematic accounts. Alpari is a Gold Sponsor of Derivatives World Russia, 2009.
  • October 2009 — A new Alpari office opens up in Saint Petersburg and a representative office opens in Dnepropetrovsk. Alpari joins the MasterCard SecureCode program, allowing clients to make more secure transactions over the internet using a credit card.
  • October 21 2009 — Alpari is the first in Russia to offer direct access to the currency market through the electronic communication network (ECN), Currenex. Currenex is made available on Alpari and Alpari Direct Pro trading platforms.
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  2010: Alpari Solidifies Its Place among the Financial Elite

  • January 2010 — Alpari opens up a representative office in Astana, Kazakhstan and an office in Voronezh. A new generation of Alpari contests is introduced, with bigger prizes and more favorable terms for contestants.
  • February 2010 — Alpari continues to widen its global presence by opening a representative office in Latvia.
  • March 2010 — Offices are now open in Izhevsk, Cheboksary, Yerevan, Khabarovsk and Ryazan. Alpari expands its services by introducing two new trading accounts with direct access to bank liquidity: classic.ndd.mt4 and pro.ecn.mt4. These new accounts provide traders with instant order execution, high liquidity and no requotes.
  • March 12, 2010 — Alpari's management decides to support one of the most successful football clubs in Russia by becoming an official sponsor of FC Spartak.
  • April 2010 — Alpari reduces Limit & Stop levels. The Alpari Client Office working hours are extended. Our corporate magazine “Alpari,” is awarded Bronze at the 2010 ADCR Awards (Art Directrs Club Russia), a great show of respect from professionals in the advertising industry.
  • April 30, 2010 — myAlpari is introduced. This new personal workspace (previously named Personal Area) simplifies online trading with Alpari, by moving a number of Alpari's many features into one easy-to navigate area. Everything from working with PAMM Partners to opening new accounts is made easier for our clients.
  • May 2010 — Offices are opened in Abuja (Nigeria), Kaliningrad, Estonia, Stavropol and Tyumen. Market Watch for Forex instruments is now available in MetaTrader 5. We now offer clients the following new swap-free accounts: classic.mt4.swapfree and classic.systematic.swapfree. We take another step towards towards making our clients’ work as convenient as possible by redesigning the Alpari forum. The new design features a more intuitive interface that allows you to quickly find the information you need.
  • June 2010 — Alpari launches its website in Turkish. We unify the “IB Representative” and the “Web Representative” partnership programs. The new partnership program is called “Introducing Broker” and combines all the advantages of the previous programs. A new service, Alpari Sqawk, and a new contest, “Gold Rush,” are launched. A new office opens in Moldova.
  • June 10, 2010 — Alpari is honored with the national “Russian Financial Elite 2005-2010” award as the “5 Year Grand Prix: Best Broker on the Forex Market.”
    
  • July 2010 — A new office is opened in Belarus. The Alpari-Broker project opens up direct access to the Russian stock exchanges for clients in Russia.
    
  • July 2, 2010 — The ZuluTrade platform is launched, allowing our clients to take advantage of automatic trading, with signals from experienced traders.
    
  • August 2010 — Alpari plays an important role in developing new standards for Forex companies working in the forward markets. The classic.ndd.zulutrade account is introduced, giving account holders access to both automated trading and interbank liquidity. A new office opens up in Saratov.
    
  • September 2010 — The "Stop Out" feature is introduced on PAMM Accounts. Alpari opens up trading on ETFs (exchange-traded funds).
    
  • October 2010 — A new program is launched for the PAMM Account service, allowing PAMM Investors to invite friends to join their PAMM Account and receive compensation for doing so. Alpari makes accessing interbank liquidity even easier, decreasing minimum lot sizes and minimum deposit levels. Better trading conditions are introduced on classic.gold.mt4 accounts. A new version of the Systematic platform is launched.
    
  • October 21, 2010 — We hold our first-ever round of the "Investor's Compass" contest, giving our clients the opportunity to experience the PAMM Account by investing virtual money in real managed accounts and the chance to win real cash prizes while they're at it.
    
  • November 2010 — Alpari unveils the "Gold Account," giving clients the chance to trade on an account denominated in a currency tied to the price of gold. The first ever "Full Throttle" contest begins, where high-volume trading is rewarded with cash prizes. The PAMM Account "Bulletin" service is introduced, helping PAMM Account Investors keep track of their investments. Clients are now able to contact technical support via Skype.
    
  • December 2010 — The Dixipay payment system is added to Alpari's ever-growing list of available deposit methods. Private PAMM Accounts are introduced and the restrictions on minimum Manager's Capital for PAMM Account activation are loosened up. A short video clip from Alpari takes home a prize at the 2010 European Excellence Awards. New trading instruments are made available on alpari.pamm, alpari.classic and alpari.micro accounts.
    
  • December 23, 2010 — Alpari Financial Services, Ltd. receives a license (CIF №129/10) from yet another European financial regulator.