The current planned start date of the USA branch is now February 21st.
I still plan to open an account with the USA branch to test them out, but would definitely advise others to be cautious and not jump in immediately.
Evidently, Allecoh himself is no longer officially in charge of the Swiss office as of January 1st due to some new Swiss banking regulations. Also, he's got the whole team focused on getting the US office up and running, so services have been ... less than satisfactory lately according to the postings in his thread on Forex-TSD.
I can understand that new regulations can cause difficulties and that opening a new branch in another country can be very time consuming. I think he really should have considered keeping at least some of his trading and support team exclusively focused on existing customers even if it meant taking a little longer to get the new branch open.
I still have very high hopes for the USA branch, but would definitely advise others to wait at least a few weeks after it opens to see how the performance there works out before opening an account with them.