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The retail trading industry beyond any single broker: platforms, liquidity, payments, prop firms, listings and the people moving between them. Updated 8 Nov 2026.
MEXC will refer eligible French customers to Kraken, extending a transition arrangement the two crypto exchanges previously used in the Netherlands. London's trading industry is coming home! The Kraken announcement follows MEXC's October 28 notice that it would gradually stop serving users linked to France. MEXC...
Warsaw-listed shares are now open to XTB S.A.'s clients across the European Union without a separate request, the broker and the Warsaw Stock Exchange (GPW) said today (Friday). The two called it a pilot. Until October, only XTB clients in Poland had automatic access to Warsaw-listed instruments on its platform....
Coinhub Funded has launched a simulated proprietary trading programme that combines evaluations and instant funding with up to nine short weekday trading tournaments. Coinhub Is Not the Prop-Firm Operator The launch announcement connects the new business with Coinhub's network of more than 2,000 Bitcoin ATM s across...
The SEC today announced settled charges against Christopher Williams for acting as an unregistered broker.
TradingView has made crypto fundamentals available on coin symbol pages.
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange GOPAX suspended digital-asset deposits, standard withdrawals and trading on Friday, after receiving a hacking-threat email, while retaining a manual withdrawal-request process through customer support. London's trading industry is coming home! GOPAX said it was transferring most...
Elev8 is the 'Most Innovative Broker 2026' according to BrokersView BrokersView, a broker review and rating platform, recognised Elev8 for implementing innovations in how traders access market data and manage their orders. The Elev8 broker sees its mission as providing traders with filtered, relevant market context so...
European capital market infrastructure Euronext today published its results for the third quarter of 2026.
Retail FX and CFD broker Axi has introduced pre-IPO perpetual futures contracts linked to OpenAI and Anthropic.
BGC Group posted record third-quarter revenue of $832.6m, with FX and a 43% jump in FMX volumes at the centre. A gain on divestiture and sale of investments lifts reported profit, so Adjusted Earnings is the better guide. The post BGC Posts Record Q3 as FMX Volumes Surge first appeared on LeapRate .
BGC registered FX revenues of $121.5 million, up 13.9 percent, primarily due to strong volume growth in emerging markets, G10 forwards, and Macro Hive.
Alastair Hine effectively oversaw the FOREX.com and City Index (now StoneX Trading) retail brokerage brands for StoneX.
Italy's Companies and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) today announced it has issued orders for the blocking of access to 17 unauthorized investment websites.
DBS Group is weighing a move into prime brokerage for hedge funds and other institutional investors, its chief executive, Tan Su Shan, said today (Thursday). She spoke at a briefing on third-quarter results in which the Singapore bank's markets trading income fell 65% from a year earlier. A prime broker finances...
There are a number of areas of retail trading where AI could deliver a real competitive advantage. One obvious example is customer acquisition and retention, where AI assistants can help brokers attract technically sophisticated traders, increase engagement and reduce churn. London's trading industry is coming home!...
Futures traders now have a new end-to-end route to the markets through TradingView, with Plus500US joining as a broker partner.
Born2trade , an international forex and CFD broker, today launched Nano (Cent), a new cent account built on the same foundation as the broker's flagship Dynamic account. Nano is now live for forex and gold trading. Nano pairs Dynamic's trading conditions with cent-based volumes, making it suited to smaller position...
Italy's market regulator filed 179 of the 188 entries on the EU's register of unlicensed crypto firms, an FM Intelligence analysis published today (Wednesday) shows. Authorities in four other countries supplied the remaining nine. The European Securities and Markets Authority ( ESMA ) keeps the list under the Markets...
BtcDana has secured a Category 5 licence from the UAE Capital Market Authority, allowing its local entity to conduct introduction and promotion activities. London's trading industry is coming home! BtcDana joins several international brokers that have obtained similar licences in the UAE. Vantage and Blueberry Markets...
Website traffic and trading volumes can produce very different rankings among retail brokers, according to research discussed at the first Finance Magnates Intelligence Forum on September 30 at the Amara Hotel in Limassol, Cyprus. The presentation showed that the broker ranked first by trading volume stood 57th by...
MultiBank Exchange is an interbank trading platform serving banks, financial institutions, hedge funds, family offices and CFD brokers.
Spotware Systems, the Cyprus-based developer of cTrader, today (Wednesday) launched a fraud detection service that pools anonymized data from brokers and prop trading firms. The product, cAntifraud, warns every member firm when one of them flags a trader as a threat, the company said. Abuse spread across several...
PrimeXBT today (Wednesday) opened client accounts to ChatGPT and Claude through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). B2Broker added the same kind of access to its B2TRADER platform last week. The two firms set different rules on who signs off on an order the AI prepares. At PrimeXBT, a broker offering CFDs and crypto...
BtcDana (btcdana.com) is managed mainly from Dubai but operates as an offshore (Mauritius domiciled) broker via Dana Global Limited.
The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) published a new research paper on 30 October 2026, examining how advanced artificial intelligence could change cybersecurity and operational risks across the financial sector. The report, titled Frontier and Agentic AI: Cyber Resilience in the Financial Sector, was...
Polymarket says the National Futures Association has approved its affiliate PM Derivatives as a fully collateralised futures commission merchant, completing an exchange, clearinghouse and broker stack inside the US regulated derivatives system. The post Polymarket says NFA approved its PM Derivatives FCM first...
Daily spot FX trading fell on all four institutional venues tracked by FinanceMagnates.com in October. The Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) both left interest rates unchanged during the month. FXSpotStream reported average daily volume (ADV) of $163.22 billion, down 8.9% from the all-time high it set in...
Freedom24, the retail brokerage arm of Nasdaq-listed Freedom Holding Corp. (FRHC), will open a Geneva office in the first quarter of 2027. Moving beyond its core retail investment platform, the broker is positioning the new branch to secure partnerships across Switzerland's financial and academic sectors, specifically...
XS.com has rehired Hanna Le, its former country manager in Vietnam, as regional business development director for the country, the broker said today (Wednesday). She will lead its business development and partner relationships there. The job includes work with the regional and marketing teams on offers for local...
Polymarket has received approval from the National Futures Association for its affiliated entity, PM Derivatives, LLC, to operate as a Futures Commission Merchant. The broker will operate on a fully collateralised basis, requiring customers to fund their positions in full at the time of each trade. London's trading...
Mohamed Elsergany joins Exclusive Markets after serving in a similar role at online broker PU Prime.
Europol-supported operation targets supplier of fraudulent trading platforms and call centers used to pressure victims into investing.
TradeStation Securities, Inc today announced an integration with QuantWheel, an options trading platform for directional and income-focused traders.
On November 24, Alex Piliavsky joins the panel "Your Broker's Growth Is Elsewhere: Ahead of 2027" on the Craft Stage at Old Billingsgate. He plans to argue that it isn't elsewhere at all. Piliavsky began his career at Seperia and went on to hold senior marketing roles, including several C-level positions, at...
"Most of your visibility isn't on your site at all," says Zay Yang, Founder & CEO of Wordflow, a company helping brands track and improve how they are recommended across Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platforms. For two decades, the economic bargain at the heart of the internet was reliably straightforward:...
Rostro Group plans to offer spot digital-asset brokerage alongside fiat-crypto on- and off-ramping services to its clients.
Prop Firm Match did not address another issue that arose from the event - that of the independence and transparency of its listings.
TP ICAP Group's revenue rose 11% at constant currency to £620 million in the third quarter, the London-listed broker said today (Tuesday). Its broking arm grew fastest. Global Broking revenue climbed 16% in the quarter. Its agency execution business, Liquidnet, slipped 1%, and data unit Parameta Solutions was flat....
WhiteBIT, a global cryptocurrency exchange, has partnered with BCB Group, a regulated provider of crypto-native banking infrastructure, to launch USD deposits and withdrawals via the SWIFT network for KYB-verified corporate clients. The new rail gives businesses a two-way institutional USD on/off-ramp with no preset...
Metals contracts, led by gold, made up about 69% of retail CFD trading volume in the third quarter of 2026, preliminary FM Intelligence data show. That was down from 78% in the second quarter, while currency pairs rose to 16% from 10%. The figures, published on Thursday, come from the brokers that have reported so...
Mohammed Al Hakim will lead the MB.io crypto unit into new markets and develop MultiBank Exchange's institutional reach.
Elev8, a global CFD broker serving more than 18 million trading accounts across more than 100 countries, announces a decision to lower trading spreads for new clients who register between 22 October and 30 November 2026. Spreads on gold (XAUUSD) at Elev8 now start from 2.4 pips, down 23% from ~3.1 pips. The roll-out...
About 21 brands, including Apex Trader Funding, Tradeify, Lucid Trading, Goat Funded Trader, FundingPips and Blue Guardian, have ended their partnerships with Prop Firm Match since the first exits were announced on Friday, 30 October. The comparison platform, which has 38 prop firm partners as of press time after...
LHFX has become Headline Partner to British racing driver Reza Seewooruthun for his debut season in the 2027 FIA Formula 3 Championship with Rodin Motorsport. The agreement marks the online forex and CFD broker's first sports sponsorship, with its branding already appearing on Seewooruthun's car during testing. The...
HKCC and SEOCH now accept Bond Connect Securities and MOF Bonds as eligible non-cash collateral, broadening collateral choice and supporting efficient liquidity management.
Spotware Systems will be present at The Trading Festival Mexico 2026 on 12 - 13 November at the World Trade Center in Mexico City, Booth B1, introducing the latest updates to its flagship platform, cTrader. Returning to Mexico after cTrader's Best Trading Platform LATAM 2025 award, the cTrader team will demonstrate a...
GMO Internet Group's own security unit flagged flaws in 2024 in the trading server service that hackers later breached, founder Masatoshi Kumagai said today (Monday). The group also cut the pay of four executives, with Kumagai giving up 30% of monthly compensation for three months. The service, Onamae.com Desktop...
ICM MENA, the UAE arm of online broker ICM.com, promoted Firas Bechwaty to head of business development today (Monday). He previously held the manager role in the same team. The unit, part of ICM.com , holds a Category 5 license from the UAE Capital Market Authority (CMA), which covers marketing products and...
Animoca Brands won final approval to manage investment funds in Abu Dhabi, the crypto investor said today (Monday). The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) granted a Financial Services Permission to its subsidiary Animoca Asset Management (AD) Limited. The permission lets...
IG Group's Japanese broker says some orders were filled at unintended prices or delayed for about two hours on Thursday, and it is still working out which customers were affected. No cause, scale or remedy is given. The post IG Securities reports unintended order fills in Japan first appeared on LeapRate .
JFD Brokers has appointed 20-year industry veteran Yossi Gafni as its new Vice President of Sales. Arriving just four months after the firm sold a massive chunk of its European client and partner network to GBE Brokers, the high-profile hire strongly signals a strategic reboot for the multi-asset brokerage. In April,...
Financial markets have long run on fixed trading sessions. Those hours have shaped how brokers manage instrument availability, client support, liquidity, and risk. That pattern is loosening. More products can now be traded outside standard sessions, while selected instruments offer 24/7 market access. For brokers, the...
Deepak was named CSO at GTCFX about a year ago, after initially joining in early 2024 as Head of People Operations.
XTB's chief executive said on Thursday that the Polish broker had probably arrived in the UK late. Omar Arnaout told a third-quarter results conference that competing there with established local firms would take very large sums, and that he would approach the market very cautiously. In the same answer, he said...
Prop Firm Match, a prop trading firm comparison platform, has been accused on social media of allegedly triggering affiliate links when visitors click internal features, including firm profiles and promotional code buttons. Several firms announced cutting ties with the platform following the publication. In a recent...
Prop Firm Match, a prop trading firm comparison platform, has been accused on social media of allegedly triggering affiliate links when visitors click internal features, including firm profiles and promotional code buttons. Almost a dozen firms announced they were cutting ties with the platform following the...
The US Secret Service is working with stablecoin issuer Circle to recover funds stolen in the $6.3 billion security breach at Binance . The effort also involves the FBI and cryptocurrency industry firms. London's trading industry is coming home! Crypto Briefing reported that the Secret Service confirmed its...
Financial markets have experienced a period of relatively smaller activity in recent weeks, with several major instruments trading within narrow ranges. Gold, which has emerged as one of the main drivers of retail CFD trading volumes in recent years, has also experienced a period of consolidation. For brokers, such...
Cboe Global Markets, Inc today reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2026.
Tradeweb Markets Inc. grew revenue and average daily volume by double digits in its first results since agreeing to buy credit-trading platform Trumid, a deal that raises connectivity questions for dealers and liquidity providers. The post Tradeweb revenue rises 14.9% in first results since Trumid acquisition...
Formula 1 has transformed into one of the world's fastest-growing sports properties, reaching a global fanbase of more than 830 million people, a 12% year-on-year increase. For brokers, the opportunity goes beyond brand visibility, with partnerships increasingly becoming platforms for fan engagement and brand...
Binance says a compromised engineer's laptop may have let an attacker submit unauthorised withdrawals, with the estimated impact put at $6.3bn and about $3bn frozen. The exchange has not yet explained how the transactions were authorised. The post Binance reports $6.3bn security incident, with $3bn frozen first...
Adrián Nardelli spent almost six months giving his broker partnership little attention, even sharing his referral link somewhat timidly. Less than a year after changing his approach, The Exness Team Pro member says he multiplied his Exness referred client base ninefold in less than a year after he began taking a more...
Fourteen years ago, in a trading club at the Prague University of Economics and Business, Otakar Šuffner and Marek Vašíček discovered a shared affinity for futures trading. When they founded FTMO in 2015, though, they had to be pragmatic. The retail prop trading industry was in its infancy, and the founders lacked...
Australia's corporate regulator has set out its position on prediction markets, saying it is "not currently convinced" that offering them to retail clients is in the public interest. The announcement, as issued, states ASIC's current stance rather than a formal ban. London's trading industry is coming home! The...
SBI Holdings, Inc has just provided an update on the impact on the SBI Group of the unauthorized outflow of crypto assets that occurred at Binance, an overseas crypto-asset exchange.
Binance has confirmed a security breach on its crypto exchange and estimated the total impact of a security incident at around $6.3 billion. It said an initial investigation points to a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop. According to the exchange, the laptop gave an attacker access to a service container, which was...
B2BROKER Group has added Model Context Protocol support and an in-terminal AI chat to its B2TRADER platform. The update allows traders to connect external AI tools, including Claude and ChatGPT, to their accounts for analysis and, with the required permissions, trade execution. London's trading industry is coming...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group will expand its futures lineup.
The Financial Conduct Authority has settled its High Court case against HTX's operator, securing undertakings not to knowingly promote crypto services unlawfully to UK consumers, after the exchange took steps to leave the UK. The post HTX Gives FCA High Court Undertakings on Crypto Promotions first appeared on...
India's Enforcement Directorate (ED) is investigating alleged cryptocurrency-linked cross-border transactions worth around $585 million (₹5,000 crore). The case involves Mudrex, Saber.money and decentralised finance protocol Instadapp. On 27 October, the agency searched four premises, including three in Bengaluru and...
US broker-dealer Alpaca is one of 20 firms that signed up for the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's (DTCC) tokenization service, which went live yesterday (Wednesday). It lets them turn US stocks, ETFs and Treasuries held at the depository into tokens and back. Tokenized stocks that pass through Alpaca's...
TradeStation Europe B.V., the recently licensed European brokerage subsidiary of TradeStation Group today announced a round of product updates, including extended-hours options trading.
HTX, the crypto exchange formerly known as Huobi, has settled a lawsuit brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and left the UK market. The regulator said today (Thursday) that HTX gave court undertakings not to knowingly promote its services to UK consumers. The case was the first the FCA brought against a...
Italy's Companies and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) today announced it has ordered the blocking of access to eight unauthorized investment websites.
XTB's clients held PLN 56.2 billion (about $14.2 billion) with the broker at the end of September, according to its preliminary third-quarter report. The total has grown by two-thirds this year. Stocks and exchange -traded funds (ETFs) made up 86% of that money, while open contracts for difference (CFDs) accounted for...
Launching a brokerage has traditionally followed a familiar formula: sourcing a CRM provider, selecting a trading platform, negotiating with liquidity providers, integrating payment service providers, engaging compliance consultants and managing multiple implementation timelines before a single client can be
Each service has its own terms; the prop service uses demo accounts and is not a brokerage service. Velaris Markets operates two services under one brand. Its brokerage offers CFDs on forex, indices, commodities and crypto on MetaTrader 5. Its prop service runs trading challenges on simulated accounts of up to...
OnsaFX, a global forex and CFD broker, today announced the extension of its strategic partnership with LALIGA club Getafe CF for the 2026 - 2027 season, marking a third consecutive year of collaboration between the two organizations. First established in 2024, the partnership has evolved from an initial sponsorship...
London, UK - FM Summit London 2026 will bring senior professionals from across institutional trading, technology, retail brokerage, fintech and payments to Old Billingsgate on 24 November, offering sponsors and exhibitors an opportunity to connect with decision-makers and build valuable business relationships. Marking...
Financial market technology has become an increasing priority for institutional traders as they recognise the role of infrastructure in delivering the best pricing and access. Institutional trader analysis suggests that they are less concerned about index CFD costs than the quality of the execution infrastructure....
Tokenized stocks are becoming more than just a crypto concept; they are a genuine market test. Shares and ETFs are now available on blockchain as settlement-efficient instruments that can be traded outside traditional market hours and directly linked to crypto wallets, in addition to traditional brokerage platforms....
A retail broker that acts as its clients' counterparty in South Africa needs about R68.5 million ($3.8 million) in its first year, FM Intelligence estimates. An agent with the same marketing budget needs R24.6 million ($1.4 million), according to an analysis published today (Wednesday). The gap starts with the
Google Cloud is developing a cryptocurrency custody service for financial institutions that distributes transaction-signing authority across multiple systems. The product is in private preview, with commercial availability planned for early 2027. London's trading industry is coming home! Other financial firms are also...
Robinhood's third-quarter revenue hit a record as event contracts, options and equities more than covered a steep fall in crypto, while profit fell on lower net interest income and unrealised investment losses. The post Robinhood posts record revenue first appeared on LeapRate .
GMO Internet Group offered up to $1 million for information that leads to the identification and arrest of the hackers who breached its trading server service. The site where the attackers had posted customer data went offline early today (Wednesday). The attackers began publishing what they said was customer data on...
Adyen cut its 2026 profit margin forecast to 50% today (Wednesday) and dropped its target of a margin above 55% by 2028. It will spend more on Talon.One and Orb, two loyalty and billing firms it acquired. Merchant demand for the combined offer came in stronger than planned, the Dutch payments company said. The...
Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) reported third quarter 2026 results on October 27, with event contracts revenue rising more than sixfold while cryptocurrency revenue fell by more than half. Total net revenues rose 12% year over year to $1.42 billion. Transaction-based revenues increased 19% to $867 million. Net...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced that its Brazilian real (BRL) futures reached a new daily volume record of 498,498 contracts.
US clients can trade crypto derivative contracts with up to 5x leverage across OG.com's distribution partners including Crypto.com.
Eligible users can access Anthropic pre-IPO trading on BingX, alongside BingX's broader TradFi offering across equities, FX and commodities.
Connext, a multi-asset CFD broker established in 2022, has won the "Fastest Growing Broker" category at UF AWARDS APAC 2026 in Hong Kong, as it continues to develop its trading offerings and services. Since its establishment, Connext has broadened its product and platform offering, developed client engagement...
NinjaTrader has launched its retail futures trading platform in the United Kingdom. This launch marks the latest phase of the company's 2026 European expansion, following earlier rollouts in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. London's trading industry is coming home! The provider offers UK retail...
With the summer lull well behind us and the fourth-quarter sprint underway, we decided to track where the industry's top talent has moved in the meantime. Over a critical four-month window spanning June through September, Finance Magnates logged 275 moves across brokers, crypto exchanges and prop firms. Our data...
Kraken has reportedly opened BTC and ETH options to eligible EEA clients via its Cypriot MiFID firm, RFQ only, with no public order book yet. The post Kraken opens crypto options to EEA clients first appeared on LeapRate .
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced today that it will delist several margin trading pairs effective October 30, 2026 06:00 (UTC).
Germany's financial regulator has scrapped a capital surcharge it imposed on flatexDEGIRO's bank over failings in its business organization. The online broker announced the decision today (Tuesday). The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) will also cut the Pillar 2 Requirement (P2R) for the flatexDEGIRO...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission ( ASIC ) today (Tuesday) proposed the first substantive update to its guidance on overseeing the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA). The draft prepares the guide for scam disputes against banks, telecoms firms and digital platforms. From March 31,...
Kraken has opened Bitcoin and Ether options trading to eligible clients in the European Economic Area through Kraken Pro, using the MiFID licence held by the Cypriot investment firm it acquired in 2025. London's trading industry is coming home! Clients can now access options alongside spot and futures from the same...
FINRA has amended its broker-dealer rules to explicitly cover binary options based on company performance metrics, preparing for products including Cboe's forthcoming KPI contracts. The amendments clarify how brokers should apply the existing listed-options framework to these contracts, from approving customers to...
NAGA has introduced two new ways for clients to fund their trading accounts, adding direct cryptocurrency deposits through Match2Pay and payments through Binance Pay. London's trading industry is coming home! The move comes as brokers expand their cryptocurrency funding options. In January, Finance Magnates reported...
Prediction markets position their prices as real-time forecasts. However, Brazil's presidential runoff put that claim under scrutiny just as event contracts are reaching brokerage apps. London's trading industry is coming home! Both Polymarket and Kalshi strongly favoured Flávio Bolsonaro on the eve of the vote, but...
XTB received permission from the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) on Friday to manage investment portfolios on behalf of its clients. The commission granted the permit unanimously, according to its communiqué. The Warsaw-listed broker is also preparing to launch spot cryptocurrency trading in Spain, where...
Innovation in trading continues to open up new possibilities, changing how people access financial markets and improving trading conditions. PrimeXBT, a global multi-asset broker and crypto asset service provider, puts this into practice with an expanding range of features that give new and experienced traders greater...
Brokers that run iSAM Securities' Apex bridge can now offer LMAX Group's perpetual futures to their clients, iSAM said today (Monday). The 22 contracts cover Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold and 19 other crypto tokens, and they trade around the clock. The LMAX offer carries leverage of up to 100:1, with funding rates set by...
SGX Group (Singapore Exchange) today announced the addition of Navira Financial Market as a trading member of its derivatives market.
Most B-book brokers judge their book by one number: what it made last month. If the number is positive, the desk relaxes. If it is negative, someone writes "difficult market conditions" into a management report. Either way, the number tells you whether the book made money. It says almost nothing about why, or whether...
Will allow CFD brokers to access perpetual futures liquidity 24/7 via the trading platforms they already use.
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has approved the world's first secondary trading of tokenised public funds on an SFC-licensed virtual asset trading platform (VATP).
Crypto prices kept sliding today (Monday), with Bitcoin ( BTC ) at $79,979 on Binance at 08:22 UTC, about 6% below last Wednesday's high of $84,898. Ether, XRP and Dogecoin fell to their lowest prices since August. The selloff started on Thursday, when worries about how artificial intelligence spending will be funded...
Freedom24 has opened its proprietary Tradernet brokerage infrastructure to AI applications through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing clients to connect their investment accounts to AI tools including Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. The connection gives an AI assistant access to selected portfolio, market-data,...
OANDA Securities and FXTF said today (Monday) that hackers had placed trades on some client accounts. The intruders used MetaTrader logins taken from servers that traders rented from GMO Internet Group, and both brokers restricted trading on the accounts involved. That brings to five the Japan-licensed brokers...
The move comes after ICM MENA Senior Executive Officer Wassim Anastasiou left last year for rival broker Traze.
Pavel Kashuba, Strategic Leader at Coinspaid Solutions , used his main-stage address at Stablecon USA 2026 in Washington, D.C., to examine the operational work required to make crypto a routinely used payment method. His session, "Four in Ten American Businesses Take Crypto. Most of Their Customers Never Notice,"...
ICM MENA, the Dubai-based regional arm of broker ICM.com, has promoted Ahmed Kamal to chief executive officer. He joined in March 2019 as a Business Development Manager and had served as Regional Manager since June 2024. London's trading industry is coming home! Kamal's Path at ICM According to his LinkedIn profile,...
On price, the CIS is one of the better growth stories left in the industry. The audience behind that price is pretty large: about 84 million people, median age 26 to 27, and already familiar with how forex and CFDs work. That familiarity is why a lead here becomes a first deposit about 4% of the time, against under 2%...
Only two Lithuanian investment companies report to ESMA on their cross-border operations, but they have more cross-border retail clients than 78 firms from Cyprus. London's trading industry is coming home! According to ESMA's recent report , investment firms based in Lithuania served 4.9 million cross-border retail...
Exchange-traded inflation futures have been a notorious graveyard for derivative venues for four decades. Now, Kalshi is targeting a rollout for CPI futures designed to crack open a $7.6 trillion market dominated by Wall Street's bilateral OTC swaps. The company confirmed that it is developing the product but did not...
Brokers and trading platforms handling cryptoassets should be able to explain why their monitoring systems flag a transaction and how far they trace its history, according to proposed guidance from the UK Financial Conduct Authority. London's trading industry is coming home! On 23 October, the FCA opened a...
Italy's Companies and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) today announced it has issued orders for the blocking of access of five unauthorized investment websites.
Standard Chartered has moved from an accepted offer to binding agreements to buy Zodia Custody, folding the crypto custody business into its Securities Services arm while the software side is spun out. The post Standard Chartered signs deal to buy Zodia Custody first appeared on LeapRate .
iSAM Securities Apex has integrated with Match-Prime, allowing brokers using its platform to access the liquidity provider's multi-asset offering. London's trading industry is coming home! The integration follows a similar development involving Evenox, formerly known as LP Prime , which connected to the Apex bridge to...
Trading technology has evolved considerably over the past decade. But has it evolved enough? The January 2021 GameStop short squeeze was a watershed moment for the entire brokerage industry, making brokers brutally aware of how vulnerable their trading systems can be when activity peaks. Five years down the line, same...
Axon Markets has appointed Panagiotis Karamanis as its new Head of Asia, tasking the business development veteran to scale the offshore CFD broker's footprint across the critical APAC region. London's trading industry is coming home! Karamanis transitions to Axon Markets following a recent stint as Country Manager for...
Kalshi's bid to bring crypto-style perpetual futures to the physical oil market has triggered an instant revolt from commodity incumbents. The prediction-market platform filed for a NYMEX-linked WTI perpetual contract on 20 October, a coalition of legacy exchanges and energy hedgers, including CME and ICE, urged US...
Bybit has secured full regulatory clearance in Dubai for spot trading, but the exchange's core business - crypto derivatives - remains on the waiting list. While rivals Binance and OKX already hold local derivative permissions under the emirate's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), Bybit's newly activated...
Forex, CFD, and spread betting companies in the UK received twice as many complaints in the first half of 2026 as in the same period in 2025, according to data published by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The total number of complaints across the financial sector received a total of 1.88 million opened...
Bloomberg today announced that its Crypto Exposure Analytics now supports customers in assessing their compliance with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's prudential standards.
Intercontinental Exchange today announced the expansion of its VaR-based portfolio margining methodology, IRM 2, to ICE's interest rate and fixed income derivatives complex.
Southeast Asia is becoming a more attractive location for retail brokers, with new market entrants launching locally, obtaining licences or establishing regional offices, established brokers expanding their products, marketing, partnerships and local-language services, and more retail investors entering financial...
FM Intelligence has launched an AI assistant that answers questions about FX and CFD brokers in plain English. FMIQ, introduced this week, returns each answer with the figure, the period and the dataset behind it. That data, from broker website traffic to trading volumes and license records, sits inside the portal....
Crypto prime broker GCEX began offering Bitcoin and Ether options to professional and institutional clients today (Thursday). The contracts trade over the counter with its UK arm, GC Exchange Limited, which is authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Hedge funds, asset managers and family offices that...
IG Group has applied for a UK gambling license to offer prediction markets on politics, entertainment and sports, the company said today (Thursday). It expects to open them in early 2027, after launching contracts on financial events for UK professional clients in the fourth quarter. The application sits with IG View...
AJ Bell added 152,000 platform customers in the year to September 30, taking its total to 796,000, the company said today (Thursday). Most of the growth came from people managing their own money, as direct-to-consumer (D2C) customers rose 30% to 602,000. Platform net inflows rose 37% to £9.7 billion (about $12.9...
Robinhood Markets has received approval from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to offer its investing app in the Middle East, the company said today (Thursday). It plans to launch in 2027. The US broker will be based in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), its new regional headquarters. The...
NAGA Group's EBITDA fell 40% to EUR 1.35 million in the third quarter from the second, the Hamburg-based broker said today (Thursday). It raised marketing spending by 32% over the same period ahead of a planned app launch. Group revenue slipped to EUR 12.7 million from EUR 13.3 million in the second quarter, while net...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group has published a notice of disciplinary action against Manish Kumar.
Over the past few weeks, I have spoken with people across several CFD brokers. Different companies, different markets, but the complaint was remarkably consistent: campaigns that worked in May and June were delivering fewer first-time depositors by the end of Q3. Cost per acquisition and overall customer acquisition...
Global trading technology provider expands into Perpetual Futures, with firms running on its infrastructure serving 2M+ users and 1M+ active accounts every month and processing more than $200 million in client revenues annually. Trade Tech Solutions has announced the launch of its Perpetual Futures prop firm...
A Ponzi-style forex scheme has left its organiser facing nearly $16 million in court-ordered payments. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ordered Michael B. DePetrillo and his companies, Meteor LLC and NOLA FX Capital Management LLC, to pay a $9,211,492 civil monetary penalty for their...
FX Back Office, a provider of CRM and back-office technology for forex brokers, has integrated Fintake's Helio trading platform into its technology ecosystem, the companies announced. London's trading industry is coming home! Helio has also established connections with other trading technology providers. Its...
Brokers with PHP-based websites may temporarily take their public pages offline while applying fixes for two critical security vulnerabilities. Clients won't lose access to their accounts or trading platforms, if they run on separate systems. The US National Security Agency warned organisations using PHP to prepare...
Corpay Cross-Border will deliver comprehensive FX risk management solutions to support Newcastle United's day-to-day business operations.
The CPA model has long been one of the most direct ways for brokers to acquire clients and introducer books. It is simple, trackable, and commercially clear: pay a fixed amount for a qualified client, then aim to recover that cost through spreads, commissions, and lifetime value. In theory, this aligns interests. In...
Brex Capital has lost its Financial Commission membership after repeatedly failing to comply with the organisation's rules and guidelines. According to the Financial Commission's announcement, the expulsion took effect on 19 October and applies to the broker under both its current name and its former name, QRS Global....
Tradeweb Markets Inc. has agreed to buy Trumid Holdings, LLC, a US credit trading platform, adding new-issue and grey-market bond trading and a client base of hedge funds and systematic traders. The post Tradeweb to Buy Trumid for $1.97bn in Credit Push first appeared on LeapRate .
In Dubai, Chief Compliance Officers can earn as much as $425,00 annually, exceeding the salary ceilings for Chief Technology Officers and revenue chiefs. In London, Heads of Compliance can earn up to $251,000, while Cyprus has recorded a 14% annual increase in salaries across its FX and fintech sectors. These figures...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) today reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2026.
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has approved a retail Bitcoin exchange-traded fund and waived diversification limits, while setting custody and conduct obligations for the supervised firms that distribute crypto-based products. The post FINMA Approves Switzerland's First Retail Bitcoin ETF...
Evenox, the liquidity provider formerly known as LP Prime, has connected to iSAM Securities' Apex bridge, iSAM said today (Wednesday). CFD brokers on Apex can now add its prices on more than 2,500 instruments. Brokers keep their existing liquidity providers and add Evenox through the bridge. The range covers FX,...
The Feed add-on provides a native community where signals providers can share updates directly inside Social Trading.
Bazil De Bruyn, a former executive at oneZero Financial Systems, has launched an advisory business that helps brokers and proprietary trading firms choose technology vendors. Elevate Edge, based in Limassol, Cyprus, announced the launch today (Wednesday) and said it also works with banks. Brokers and prop firms buy...
Brokeree Solutions launched a feed today (Wednesday) that lets copy trading signal providers post updates for the traders who follow them. The tool, called Feed, runs inside Brokeree's Social Trading platform, which retail brokers license to offer copy trading to their clients. Providers who want to talk to followers...
Elevate Edge pairs business diagnostics with a vetted vendor portfolio and stays involved until the client sees ROI.
Futures brokers are getting clients ready for contracts on the cost of renting AI computing power, though no US exchange has been cleared to list them. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) closed its public consultation on the products yesterday (Tuesday). BGC Group, ADM Investor Services and Nanhua USA are...
Intivion has announced a new brand experience, a redesigned global website and an updated overall product ecosystem. At the core of its technology offering is the in-house Brokerage Intelligence System (BIS), built into every Intivion product to connect operations across the brokerage lifecycle. The new brand...
MyForexFunds has outlined Evolution, a new prop trading program that offers one-phase and two-phase challenges and separates its simulated trading environment from a proprietary trading company. London's trading industry is coming home Funded accounts start in Partner status, which has no daily drawdown rule, and move...
MyForexFunds has outlined Evolution, a new prop trading program that offers one-phase and two-phase challenges and separates its simulated trading environment from a proprietary trading company. London's trading industry is coming home Funded accounts start in Partner status, which has no daily drawdown rule, and move...
River Markets is positioning itself as a central distribution gateway for institutional prediction markets, signing a preliminary agreement to route orders for both OG.com's event contracts and Crypto.com's crypto spot liquidity through a single trading interface. Under a memorandum of understanding signed on 20...
Apple would have to open the iPhone's contactless payment technology to rival UK apps at lower fees, under proposals the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published today (Tuesday). The regulator said Apple's fees and access rules are blocking UK fintechs from building competing services. No firm has yet...
Germany's financial regulator has licensed a Boerse Stuttgart Group subsidiary to run a distributed ledger trading and settlement system, giving the Seturion platform its legal footing. No production launch date has been announced. The post Boerse Stuttgart Wins German Approval for Seturion Trading Platform first...
Build or rent? FX and CFD brokers looking to add event contracts face a familiar infrastructure choice: build their own venue or connect to an existing one. For Kalshi's Head of Institutional Andy Ross, the answer starts with liquidity: "You want to go to the place that's got all the liquidity." The liquidity argument...
GMO-Z.com Cryptonomics (Thailand) operates a licensed digital asset exchange and brokerage in Thailand.
XTB launched investing accounts for 14- to 17-year-olds in Romania today (Tuesday), with parents keeping control of the money. Romania is the first country to get the service, called XTB Young, the Polish broker said. Clients aged 18 to 24 made up 17.4% of XTB's active clients across all its markets in the first half...
Funded Futures Network, a futures prop trading firm, launched a second brand in October that sells evaluations on perpetual contracts. FFN Perps lists 134 markets in crypto, stocks, indices, commodities and forex, open around the clock including weekends, its website shows. Crypto exchanges already trade such...
Looking for fintech webinars that cover real business needs? Finance Magnates brings you online sessions with experts from across financial services. Our webinars cover topics such as payment solutions, brokerage technology, and fintech services. They also give you the chance to learn from industry experts and hear...
Tokenized U.S. stocks take their prices from the exchanges where the shares trade, a World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) study published today (Tuesday) found. In none of the 61 pairs it analyzed did the token lead price discovery. Brokers and crypto platforms sell the tokens on access to U.S. shares at any hour. Yet...
Google has updated its Complex speculative financial products policy to allow ads for contracts for difference (CFDs), rolling spot forex and similar products in Denmark and Chile. The policy decision takes effect in October 2026, but Google did not give an exact date. London's trading industry is coming home! What...
From 21 October, Google will apply updated licensing requirements to ads for crypto exchanges, software wallets, CFDs and rolling spot forex targeting users in the United Arab Emirates. Firms in all four categories need a licence for the service they promote and separate Google certification before their ads can run....
India is surprisingly back at the top of our Heat Map rankings, according to FM Intelligence's Q3 data, even as its share of interest declined slightly. Its return is one of several notable changes in the geographic distribution of attention across the FX and CFD industry this quarter. These developments could offer...
Proprietary trading firm establishes standalone brand ahead of product and market expansion, with an expanded leadership team.
Hantec Trader, the prop firm arm of the Hantec Group, has rebranded as RZR Funded. The move, however, goes well beyond a surface-level marketing reskin. The firm has also officially changed the name of the corporate entity behind the prop operations from Hantec Trader Limited to RZR Funded Limited. Despite the name...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced plans to launch new European dairy futures and options contracts before the end of 2026.
International derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced that it will launch Tungsten futures to meet rising demand for its metals complex.
Gibraltar's financial regulator has authorized a new Revolut subsidiary to provide crypto services, the government said today (Monday). The unit can now execute virtual asset orders, hold the assets in custody and offer staking. The government statement named the subsidiary as Revolut Global Digital Assets Limited...
Gibraltar's early and comprehensive regulatory framework provides a secure baseline for Revolut's international digital asset services.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) missed its own targets for deciding financial services license applications, its annual report showed today (Monday). It decided 82% of applications within 240 days, against a goal of 90%. That license is what CFD brokers, market makers and crypto platforms...
About 35% of American investors own crypto, and it averages 10% of their portfolios, according to Charles Schwab's 2025 Modern Wealth Survey. Until recently, holding both meant running two platforms, and the cost of that split never appeared as a fee. It showed up as cash parked between transfers, trades that waited...
Let me ask you something straight. Does real-world asset trading on crypto exchanges feel like a genuine revolution, or does it feel like a warehouse full of boxes nobody opens? I think you know the answer. London's trading industry is coming home! The RWA sector has a serious liquidity problem, and saying it out loud...
Retail investors once had to Google the answers to qualify for high-risk CFDs and complex derivatives; generative AI has turned passing those questionnaires into a one-click exercise. Now, the UK Financial Conduct Authority is preparing to call time on the shortcut, launching a review into how online brokers screen...
Canadian brokers offering event contracts must now keep markets they cannot offer out of clients' sight, not just block trades in them. The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) has extended its restrictions to how prediction markets appear in broker apps and promotions. London's trading industry is...
CySEC disclosed the penalty two weeks after Titanedge ceased providing investment services and while the regulator was considering the company's voluntary licence surrender. The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) published the announcement on 16 October, however, the enforcement action relates to...
TD Markets is one of South Africa's leading locally headquartered brokers, serving more than 50,000 active clients across Africa.
Multi-asset broker CXM Group has agreed to buy Johannesburg-based TD Markets, Finance Magnates reports, which would give CXM a regulated South African entity for the first time. Terms were not disclosed. The post CXM Group to Acquire South Africa's TD Markets first appeared on LeapRate .
UPTECH, a fintech firm providing institutional technology infrastructure for FX, CFD, and multi-asset brokerages, is marking its UF AWARDS APAC 2026 nomination by highlighting the integrated architecture behind its technology offering. The company views the nomination as industry recognition of its technical approach...
For many FX and CFD brokers, the close of the trading week does not close the risk. Exposure built up during the week stays on the book over the weekend, and some OTC and alternative instruments continue to trade after conventional markets have shut. Developments outside normal hours can move prices before liquidity...
Your Bourse, a liquidity technology provider, and CRM vendor 4XPORTAL said today (Friday) they jointly serve forex brokers. About two to three brokers use the combined setup, Your Bourse told FinanceMagnates.com. So far the focus has been FX and CFD brokers in 4XPORTAL's Dubai network, including Indian brokers that...
Trading software vendor Leverate named Mexico a key growth market today (Friday), saying it is putting more time and resources into Latin America. The company sells white-label brokerage setups, prop trading platforms and liquidity to brokers, and said it already runs an office in Colombia. Brokers are already there....
Crypto exchanges and traditional brokerages have historically occupied very different corners of financial markets. One grew around digital assets, 24/7 trading and globally accessible infrastructure; the other around equities, clearing, custody and established capital-market systems. Increasingly, those worlds are...
For decades, the best trading technology was built for the biggest players, with big budgets and big teams. Syphonix, backed by a USD 100 million Series A, is building it for everyone else. Its AI-native trading platform combines ultra-low-latency execution with AI agents that help run the desk, from pricing and...
Ripple Prime has begun offering institutional clients swaps linked to more than 100 traditional-asset perpetual markets. The underlying contracts trade on Hyperliquid, but clients enter the swaps with Ripple Prime as their counterparty and can manage them alongside other positions held through the prime broker....
The Malta Financial Services Authority has barred Trive shareholder Kasim Garipoglu from taking new positions requiring its approval for 10 years and ordered him to divest his shareholding in the broker within six months. The regulator also ordered Trive Financial Services Europe Limited to stop all incoming and...
Predict Pro gives professional traders the infrastructure needed to analyze probabilities, manage risk, and execute complex strategies.
Charles Schwab's daily trade count rose 44% year over year in the third quarter of 2026, while trading revenue increased 16%. The gap left the brokerage earning less revenue per reported trade even as its wider business posted record quarterly revenue. London's trading industry is coming home! Clients completed an...
Dutch broker Lynx is opening an office in Warsaw, it said today (Thursday). Poland becomes the fifth country where the Amsterdam-based company runs a local team, and it says it serves more than 72,000 active investors across Europe. That is fewer than the Polish brokerage accounts XTB opens in six weeks at its August...
The free webinar on 12 November 2026 will explore how brokers can rethink their technology setup, reduce the burden of managing multiple systems, and build a more flexible brokerage business. Finance Magnates and FYNXT will host a live webinar titled "Buy vs. Build Is Dead: The NXT-Generation Brokerage Is Composed" on...
XRP slipped to $1.318 on Bitstamp by 09:36 UTC today (Thursday), down 3.6% over 24 hours, as hotter US inflation data pushed crypto lower. The token is now testing support between $1.28 and $1.32, about 16% below the $1.56 level that stopped its September rally. US consumer prices rose 3.7% in the 12 months to...
Italy's Companies and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) today announced it has issued orders for the blocking of access to 10 unauthorized investment websites.
Seven UK retail brokers had material weaknesses in the systems meant to catch insider dealing by clients, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said yesterday (Wednesday). It named none of the firms. All seven were required to strengthen their surveillance after the visits. In some cases the FCA used skilled person...
Movantis has integrated Integral FX which includes a pricing engine, liquidity aggregation, risk management, and distribution capabilities.
Brokerpilot , the risk management and dealing automation technology provider for FX and CFD brokers, has been nominated for the UF AWARDS APAC 2026. The nomination brings attention to a central question for institutional risk management: how can a brokerage keep a clear view of its business as its operations become...
Digital asset platforms in Australia will need an Australian financial services (AFS) licence, customer disclosure documents and platform rules, and must meet asset-holding, transactional and settlement standards plus net tangible asset requirements where relevant. These are the obligations in guidance the Australian...
At least four exchanges are expected to start trading perpetual futures on securities this quarter, the SEC's top market-structure official said, signalling that a contract born in crypto markets is close to entering regulated US equity derivatives trading. Speaking at the Security Traders Association's annual market...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved Cboe's proposal for listing binary options tied to corporate performance indicators. The platform submitted the proposed rule change to permit listing of binary options overlaying key performance indicators reported by selected stock issues in July 2026. Once...
BingX EU, operated by MEGE zweite GmbH, has secured a licence under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation from Austria's Financial Market Authority. The authorisation is expected to allow the company to offer regulated crypto services across the European Economic Area, subject to applicable passporting requirements....
Axi said today (Wednesday) that eligible clients can connect their MetaTrader 5 (MT5) accounts to Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, and use it to place trades. The link runs through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI tools to outside data and services. Through Claude, clients can...
The European Banking Authority (EBA) classified Circle's USDC as a significant e-money token under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) today (Wednesday). It is the first of the 45 e-money tokens notified in the European Union to receive the label. From November 12, the EBA will directly supervise USDC's own...
Alpaca plans to launch a prime brokerage business in the first quarter of financial year 2027 as it expands into services connecting cryptocurrency and traditional financial markets, Bloomberg reported. London's trading industry is coming home! The California-based company raised $150 million in an equity round in...
Online broker Axi has announced the launch of its Axi MCP integration, connecting eligible MT5 accounts to Claude, the AI assistant developed by Anthropic.
Europe's cross-border retail investment market picked up about five million reported clients in 2025, and CFDs missed out on almost all of it. ESMA's latest annual report shows the overall total rising from 10.5 million to 15.5 million, while CFD client numbers dipped to 1.3 million, falling behind even the tokenised...
New York, October 2026: Robinhood Crypto has integrated support for XDC Network, allowing eligible U.S. retail customers to trade the XDC token on its platform from now. The listing opens XDC, the native token of a Layer-1 blockchain built for trade finance, payments and tokenized real-world assets, to 2.3 million...
Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has signed an agreement to acquire Finnish holding company Saldo Finance Oy, owner of Lithuania-licensed Saldo Bank. London's trading industry is coming home! While financial terms were undisclosed, the deal, expected to close in 2027, positions Payward as one of...
Marex has launched the first Institutional Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) indices on digital assets, with the introduction of its Marex Crypto Volatility Carry Indices.
Electronic trading major Interactive Brokers has rolled out version 1.2.0 of IBKR Connector.
Robinhood has opened its in-app trading feed, Robinhood Social, to all eligible US customers, ending an invitation-only beta. Chief Executive Vlad Tenev confirmed the wider rollout yesterday (Tuesday) in a post on X. Customers can now share stock and crypto charts, realized profit and loss, and portfolio allocations...
Financial data vendor Benzinga and AI developer WNSTN have rolled out a white-label conversational assistant designed to turn market research into instant client order flow inside third-party brokerage apps, promising to more than double retail trading frequency. The service brings together Benzinga's market...
South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit has ordered access restrictions on 27 websites operated by unregistered overseas cryptocurrency exchanges, including KuCoin, MEXC, Phemex, BingX and BitMart. London's trading industry is coming home! The move follows previous action against offshore exchanges. In August 2022,...
Wincent, a crypto market maker based in Gibraltar, is preparing to expand into the United States and is studying a move into traditional financial markets. Chief Executive Tom Mazur outlined the plans to FinanceMagnates.com after a rebrand on September 30. "We have become a much larger and more institutional...
IG Prime, the institutional arm of IG Group, has signed Investec Prime Services as a partner for its white-label trading platform in South Africa. Investec keeps its own brand. IG supplies the trading technology, execution, analytics and risk tools behind it, covering derivatives on equities, indices, FX, commodities...
Marios Morfakis had left his position as Chief Sales Officer for another Cyprus-run offshore broker, TenTrade, to head Noemon.
For the past two years, regulators across the world have waged a high-profile war against finfluencers. However, a new ESMA study finds that cracking down on non-compliant influencers addresses only half the problem. Even when posts are legal, accurate, and organic, social media sentiment quietly drives retail traders...
YouHodler Italy S.r.l. today announced that CONSOB, after hearing the Bank of Italy, has authorised it as a crypto-asset service provider (CASP).
BingX opened trading in more than 7,000 US stocks and exchange-traded funds today (Tuesday), routing orders through US brokerage infrastructure provider Alpaca. Users pay for the shares in USDT or USDC drawn from their existing crypto balances, the exchange said. It is the second crypto exchange in two days to sign up...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has drawn a clearer regulatory line around the use of artificial intelligence in financial services. On 7 October 2026, the regulator published its Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence Risk Management, establishing supervisory expectations for financial institutions using AI,...
Bitcoin needs to stop competing with AI for attention. If the case for owning it still depends on being the most exciting bet on the future, then years of institutionalisation have done less than crypto likes to admit. For years, that asset had a very convenient advantage. It gave investors tech, finance, rebellion...
Multi-asset trading broker Kudo.com has launched instant crypto withdrawals, now live for its clients globally. The company says it is also progressing development of a new native mobile app. According to Kudo, the feature uses automated withdrawal processing to eliminate manual handling delays, allowing clients to...
Customer deposits at US retail forex brokers rose in July for the first time in four months, then edged lower in August. The six registered dealers owed retail clients $469.96 million at the end of August, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data. July added $9.27 million, a 2.01% increase that...
ASIC has proposed extending its CFD product intervention order by 10 years to 2037, subject to Ministerial approval, while widening the definition to digital-asset-settled contracts and confirming that initial margin applies separately to every CFD, with no netting. The post ASIC Proposes 10-Year Extension of CFD...
Kraken's parent Payward received Full Market Approval from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) today (Monday). Kraken plans to start serving clients in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the coming weeks, the company said. The approval is the last stage of VARA's licensing process. It follows the...
Bybit opened trading in more than 1,000 US-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds today (Monday), with purchases paid in the USDC stablecoin. Orders are executed by Alpaca, a US broker-dealer that also holds the shares in custody, the Dubai-based crypto exchange said. The product is a step away from the equity...
The futures brokers of Coinbase and Robinhood held $581.4 million of segregated client money at the end of August. That is more than the $470 million all six US retail forex dealers owed their clients in the same month. Two years earlier the two firms' futures commission merchants (FCMs) held $40.3 million, according...
NAGA has added private insurance for clients of its CySEC-regulated European business. The policy is designed to cover missing cash and securities if the broker becomes insolvent and client assets have been lost through fraud, theft or similar misconduct. The cover is an addition to Cyprus's €20,000 Investor...
EU member states have rejected plans to put every digital-asset firm under direct ESMA supervision, drawing a line that leaves most of them under their familiar national watchdogs. This is a substantial retreat from the European Commission's original proposal , presented in December 2025, which implied that ESMA would...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced settled charges against Jefferies LLC, a registered broker dealer.
Blockchain.com is seeking US registrations that could take it from distributing products supplied by Polymarket and Hyperliquid to operating its own derivatives business, CNBC reported. The company has reportedly applied to operate a designated contract market (DCM) and a futures commission merchant (FCM). Together,...
Italy's Companies and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) today announced that it has ordered the blocking of four unauthorized investment websites.
Markets4you, a global multi-asset trading broker, has introduced Commission Settings for eligible IB Flex Partners alongside Dream Trip 2026, a global promotion rewarding Partners with travel vouchers and other rewards. The new Commission Settings gives Partners greater flexibility in managing how commissions are...
A crypto exchange can remove a non-MiCA stablecoin from its order book and still leave other ways for customers to buy it. ESMA now wants platforms to close those routes as well. Under an opinion published on October 8, EU regulators should examine the entire customer journey rather than focus only on which tokens...
Prop trading firm FTMO reported paying more than $14.4 million in rewards to roughly 7,100 traders in September, bringing its reported cumulative payouts above $650 million. The Prague-based firm distributed more than $200 million in rewards over the past 12 months, averaging roughly $16 million a month. Based on the...
The financial media company recorded more than 20 interviews during Forex Expo Dubai.
Crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) authorised under MiCA must cease providing services related to non-MiCA-compliant stablecoins to clients in the European Union.
Nasdaq and One Trading to explore opportunities to combine their market infrastructure expertise and advanced derivatives technologies.
SoFi Tech Solutions, formerly Galileo, today announced a partnership with Mexican fintech Orbi and Mastercard to launch a crypto-linked card program in Mexico.
Dana Massey joins Next Ventures from Dubai based CFDs broker MultiBank, where he served as CPGO for the past year and a half.
More than 60% of Axi's customers now trade on MetaTrader 5, MetaQuotes said yesterday (Wednesday) in a case study on the broker. Axi has also started deploying Ultency, the order-matching engine MetaQuotes sells to MT5 brokers. MetaTrader 5 overtook MT4 across the industry last year. It handled 62% of combined MT4 and...
Brokers and prop firms can now offer their own tools and services - pre-installed in cTrader for existing clients or listed in cTrader Store.
Brokers and prop firms can now offer their own tools and services - pre-installed in cTrader for existing clients or listed in cTrader Store.
Finance Magnates and Clarity Global are set to host a webinar exploring banking and payment solutions for trading firms, including FX brokers, prop trading firms and prediction market businesses. Titled "Banked, Not Blocked: Simplifying Complex Payments for Trading Firms," the webinar will examine the banking...
Ripple Prime will provide multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing and financing to Brevan Howard funds, turning an existing investor relationship into an operating mandate, although the size of the mandate has not been disclosed. The post Ripple Prime wins Brevan Howard prime brokerage mandate first appeared on LeapRate...
Swiss banks and brokers will have to confirm a live person is behind online account openings that use the state e-ID or a qualified e-signature. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) issued the rules today (Thursday). The revised circular on video and online identification takes effect on November
Brokers and prop firms on cTrader can now pre-install their own tools for every client, Spotware Systems said today (Thursday). The Cyprus-based company opened cTrader's multi-platform plugins to services that firms build or commission themselves. Firms can deliver a plugin automatically to their clients and also list...
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published an opinion expecting MiCA-authorised crypto firms to stop services tied to non-compliant stablecoins, with existing exposures cleared within three months of publication, which puts the limit at 8 January 2027. The post ESMA Expects MiCA-Authorised Crypto...
One Trading secured an undisclosed strategic investment from Nasdaq Ventures, laying the groundwork for the two firms to explore potential joint initiatives. Through this partnership, both companies plan to assess options for upgrading 24/7 operating infrastructure into traditional derivatives while broadening their...
XTB said yesterday (Wednesday) it had started rolling out 24-hour weekday trading in selected US shares, which several rivals have offered for two years or more. The Warsaw-listed broker also opened a tax-advantaged long-term investment account in Hungary. Both products are aimed at the clients XTB now signs up first....
New York-based prop firm Vest Labs has raised a $13 million pre-seed round led by Portal Ventures, Fortune reported. The round, which closed in July, also drew angel investments from senior executives at Citadel Securities, BlackRock, and KKR. VC backing is rare for prop trading firms, let alone a pre-seed round of...
For an FX or CFD broker, a successful deposit is only the beginning. The money still needs to be identified, reconciled, and made available through the appropriate accounts. Withdrawals must reach approved recipients, commissions must be paid, and the treasury needs a reliable view of where funds sit. Every gap...
Greg Lunz, the former Head of eFX for Asia Pacific at Velocity Trade, has joined Sydney-headquartered forex and contracts for differences (CFDs) broker Axi as its Head of New Product Innovation and Growth. Lunz took up the Sydney-based role in July 2026, ending his four-year tenure at Velocity Trade. His appointment...
iFX EXPO Asia 2026 has kicked off its main exhibition and conference programme today (Thursday) at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, bringing together professionals from across the global online trading, fintech and digital asset industries. The event, which began yesterday with a Welcome Party, is...
New research has identified a filing pattern that raises a question for KYB teams at banks, brokers and payment firms: why did tens of thousands of UK companies fall behind on their filings as director identity checks took effect? Shareflo found 33,675 active companies that were not similarly late a year earlier but...
Recognition closes two days of live trading sessions and partner meetings at Booth 081, Dubai World Trade Centre CentFX ended its appearance at The Forex Expo Dubai 2026 on a high note, taking home the Most Trusted Liquidity Provider award at the close of the two-day event. The globally regulated multi-asset broker...
Friday, 2 October, was a bad morning for IG Group shareholders. The stock plunged as much as 27% in early trading after management slashed its revenue outlook, marking its worst trading session for nearly a decade. Rivals immediately felt the squeeze and by Monday, they had all found a way to explain why IG's numbers...
Tim Grant is CEO of fintech investment firm Deus X Capital, which already owns TradeLocker.
Crypto prices fell today (Wednesday) after a 20-minute sell-off in bitcoin wiped out more than $400 million in leveraged long positions. Bitcoin ( BTC ) dropped 1.6% to $84,218 on Binance by 07:01 UTC, while ether lost 3%, XRP 1.5% and Dogecoin 3.1% on Bitstamp. The flush hit between about 01:45 and 02:10 UTC,...
Capital Markets are changing shape. Stocks, bonds, private credit, private equity, venture, real estate, funds and commodities are all being tokenized, and the institutions doing it sit at the very centre of global finance. Tokenization is no longer confined to crypto; it is now part of mainstream capital markets....
Integral will support Yapı Kredi Kripto's regulated crypto offering as Türkiye's new digital asset framework comes into effect.
Chartered Investment has plugged Saxo's brokerage infrastructure into its digital platform, the two companies said today (Wednesday). Asset managers issuing actively managed certificates (AMCs) through it can now be onboarded in five days, according to the firms. An AMC wraps a discretionary strategy in a note instead...
Chartered Investment and Saxo, a digital broker for investors, traders and institutional partners, today announced an enhanced partnership and the launch of Flow AMC.
Infrastructure provider GTN has appointed Daniel Endler as its first Group Chief Product Officer (CPO). The newly created role sits between commercial operations and the CTO to build a unified, adaptable trading platform. "It aligns these two functions from a day-to-day operational standpoint, while also driving...
Kalshi has received CFTC approval for its US500 perpetual future and opened the contract for trading, less than two months after submitting it for regulatory review. The product gives US clients leveraged long or short exposure to 500 large American companies without a fixed expiry date. It expands Kalshi's perpetual...
Tradeweb Markets' average daily volume rebounded 33.7% in September to $3.74 trillion, with rates derivatives generating most of the increase. ADV was also 29% higher than a year earlier, while total monthly trading volume reached $81.6 trillion. The recovery followed a weaker August , when overall ADV declined 4.5%...
Clear Street has joined TradingView as a broker partner - connecting the markets infrastructure once reserved for institutions to traders on the platform, for stocks, ETFs, and options.
As Argentina opens further to international markets, brokers entering the country should not treat greater access as a reason to lower compliance standards, according to Javier Jara Lindao, LATAM Regional Manager at IC. Speaking at Money Expo Argentina 2026 on the panel "FX Access, Broker Credibility, and AML in...
Match-Trader combines an intuitive interface with the functionality expected by active traders.
Banks are increasingly turning to external partners to modernise their wealth management and brokerage offerings, according to a new study released by Saxo today.
Plenty of brokers have launched copy trading in the last two years. Fewer can say what it did for revenue. The pattern is familiar. The module goes live, there is a fortnight of client curiosity, and activity settles somewhere nobody builds a business case on. Sometimes the strategies themselves are the problem: too...
US futures exchanges can now strip the expiration dates from their perpetual-style stock index futures. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) granted the no-action relief yesterday (Monday). The change turns contracts that Coinbase Derivatives listed with expiries of up to 25 years into true perpetuals. The...
PropLaunch (https://proplaunch.com/) today announced a new strategic partnership with Axcera and RUBIK Prop Firm Consulting to provide entrepreneurs with a coordinated infrastructure and operational framework for launching and running proprietary trading firms. The partnership brings together PropLaunch's operating...
OUINEX has appointed Nathan Meyer as Managing Director for South Africa. He will lead the company's local operations and team, and oversee its strategy in the country. London's trading industry is coming home! The move comes as international brokers face higher costs for maintaining local operations in South Africa. A...
Sky Links Capital Group has appointed Hormoz Faryar as Managing Director to lead its institutional business development and expansion across global markets. According to the company, Faryar brings more than 25 years of institutional e-FX trading and sales experience. His previous roles include Vice President, AES FX...
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has opened a consultation on rules for retail commodity transactions involving crypto assets. The agency published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comments on a regulatory framework for these transactions. The proposal covers requirements for retail crypto...
Most US investors surveyed could handle basic questions about stocks, bonds and inflation, but their knowledge weakened when leverage, interest-rate risk and other potential sources of loss entered the picture. Only 18% of US investors with assets outside workplace retirement plans demonstrated advanced investment...
Finance Magnates Intelligence spoke with Jay Mawji, CEO of STARPRIME, an institutional CFD liquidity provider and market maker, to discuss how liquidity provision is changing amid volatile markets, growing concentration in gold trading and advances in trading technology. Mawji discussed how STARPRIME managed extreme...
Gold-i's Tom Higgins discusses what brokers need to consider as digital assets become an increasingly mainstream part of their offering.
Every liquidity account comes with one set of terms covering the price the broker pays, the limits it trades within, and the sessions the account covers. Whatever the broker routes through it inherits those terms. A core book built up over years sits alongside anything that went live last quarter, whether a new...
XTB announced on Friday what it called the largest advertising campaign in its history, putting former heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury alongside Zlatan Ibrahimović. The same day, its stock price fell 5.4% in Warsaw as a revenue warning from IG Group dragged listed brokers lower. XTB spent PLN 435.5 million...
Each of FXSpotStream, Cboe FX, EuronextFX and Deutsche Borse's 360T saw trading volume increases of between 12-22% in September 2026.
Spot trading on the four institutional FX venues tracked by FinanceMagnates.com rose by double digits in September. The Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised interest rates two days apart during the month. FXSpotStream set an all-time high of $179.12 billion in average daily volume (ADV), while Euronext...
Forex spreads may be converging toward zero, but the same cannot be said for gold.
The joint venture of NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange and crypto exchange OKX says it will run a capped, onchain venue for tokenised US stocks under the SEC's new conditional exemption. The post OKXICE plans 24/7 onchain trading of more than 60 US stocks, per OKX's release first appeared on LeapRate .
IG Group's senior tech leadership has undergone a shake-up, with both Group CTO David Perry and UK & Ireland CTO Qaiser Mazhar departing the FTSE 250 brokerage. Their exits come amid a broader corporate reorganization at the firm following a challenging financial period. They also come at a time when AI talent is...
As the trading industry gathers in Hong Kong for iFX EXPO Asia, the APAC conversation feels more practical than it has for some time. Brokers and professional traders are not short of products, platforms or market commentary. What they are looking for now is cleaner access, better execution and partners that can help...
The partnership enables Axcera operators to offer their traders Prediction Markets without the hassle of building a new operating platform.
The owner of the New York Stock Exchange and OKX set out plans yesterday (Sunday) for a blockchain venue trading 63 US stocks around the clock. Their joint venture, OKXICE, published the notice a new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) exemption requires before such a venue opens. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)...
4OTC has integrated its Libre Liquidity Bridge with TP ICAP's Fusion Digital Assets exchange, allowing liquidity providers to stream spot cryptocurrency liquidity to the venue. London's trading industry is coming home! The integration follows TP ICAP's expansion of Fusion Digital Assets under its matched principal...
This week's top stories in the online trading sector were dominated by executive moves. But there were also some interesting results reports.
The prop trading sector dominated the week, with the sale of MyForexFunds' brand assets, the closure of FundedSeat and CMC Markets' entry into simulated prop trading highlighting changes across the market. Platform access, broker integration and the economics of trader payouts also featured prominently. London's...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed allowing investment advisers and regulated funds to self-custody crypto assets when no permitted custodian is available. The exception is designed partly for newer or less widely supported tokens, but would come with extensive operational requirements....
International derivatives marketplace CME Group has posted a notice of disciplinary action against TP ICAP Global Markets Americas LLC.
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) today issued a warning regarding six unauthorized investment entities.
Throughout the month, for every lot traded by Charity October participants, the broker will donate to an educational charity project to support underprivileged young students. The initiative is built around a simple idea: as you start seeing new opportunities for yourself, you can help others along the way....
Stablecoins are becoming an increasingly established part of the payments mix for brokers globally. But as acceptance gets easier, a different challenge is emerging behind the scenes: making those funds work within the rest of the brokerage. A stablecoin deposit may arrive in seconds. From there, it still needs to be...
For retail brokers, the build-versus-buy decision is rarely just about the trading interface. It is more of a decision about how much of the technology stack they want to own, control and maintain. But brokers must consider the economics and demand, too. London's trading industry is coming home! Time vs Control...
Client information checks: core concepts Below are three key concepts that the client verification process is rooted in. KYC, or know your customer KYC forms the identification layer of the client verification framework. Before a broker can serve a client - and also at different stages of the client-broker...
As more businesses explore crypto payments, the real question is no longer whether the technology works. It is whether businesses can benefit from it without taking on the complexity that traditionally comes with digital assets. The conversation around crypto payments has moved on. For several years, much of the...
MetaQuotes has added Benzinga News to its information services, giving brokers a new feed they can distribute through MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5. The content is also available directly through MetaTrader.com in multiple languages. Traders can test the service for one month at no charge. The companies did not...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced that its Soybean futures reached a new monthly open interest record.
Benzinga News brings real-time U.S. market coverage directly into the MetaTrader workflow, now live on MetaQuotes.com in multiple languages.
Match-Trader Broker Management MCP connects brokers and prop firms to their Match-Trader operational data through AI assistants.
Match-Trade Technologies has launched a Model Context Protocol integration that allows brokers and prop firms to access Match-Trader Manager and Admin data through compatible AI clients. London's trading industry is coming home! The launch follows Match-Trade's introduction of AI Skills for its Broker API and CRM API...
Italy's Companies and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) today announced it has issued orders for the blocking of access to five unauthorized investment websites.
Marex has launched an OTC rolling spot crypto product for institutional clients, expanding its digital assets offering.
The FCA opened its crypto authorisation gateway on 30 September 2026. Firms intending to keep operating in the UK should apply by 28 February 2027, ahead of the regime starting on 25 October 2027. The post FCA Opens Crypto Authorisation Gateway, Firms Should Apply by 28 February 2027 first appeared on LeapRate .
Fintech company MetaQuotes will release MetaTrader 4 (MT4) platform build 1490 on Friday, October 2, 2026.
XS.com has received the "Global Multi-Asset Brokerage Leadership" award at the Qatar Financial Expo & Awards (QFEX) 2026. The award was presented during the event, held on 29 and 30 September at the Hilton Doha and organised by AFAQ Group. According to the company, the recognition reflects the scale and continued...
The new suite of OTC derivatives will help cotton market participants manage basis risk associated with non-US cotton exports.
EU officials are questioning crypto exchange Binance over its use of reverse solicitation, a legal exemption, to keep serving customers in the bloc despite a failed licence bid and an order to wind down its EU business. London's trading industry is coming home! The Financial Times reported the questioning today...
30% of broker P&L is being lost to only 1% of their clients. The future of risk management depends on identifying this small proportion of sharp and abusive traders capable of extracting millions while representing only a fraction of the client base. The result is a growing blind spot: brokers are trying to detect...
Dubai-based CFI Financial Group has launched Gold 24/7, a gold CFD that lets clients trade when regular gold markets are closed. The instrument trades under the symbol XAUUSD-24H. Clients can open and close positions Monday through Sunday, from 00:05 to 23:58 server time. The product is separate from CFI's spot gold...
MEGA FUSION (Mega Fusion Global Ltd.), a trusted name in global online trading services, announced its participation in iFX EXPO Asia 2026, scheduled for October 7 - 9, 2026, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The brand aims to engage in in-depth exchanges with global traders, Introducing Brokers...
The 24/7 trading trend is spreading to the US equities market, with SEC-registered broker-dealer Bruce Markets announcing plans to extend trading through the weekend. The launch is scheduled for the coming months and remains subject to regulatory review. London's trading industry is coming home! 24/7 Trading Spreads...
The CFTC today announced the Florida Middle District Court entered a default judgment against defendants Brian Early and Alisha Ann Kingrey.
The UK's financial regulator has given crypto companies five months to apply for FCA authorisation if they want their applications assessed before the new crypto regulatory regime starts. London's trading industry is coming home! The Financial Conduct Authority started accepting applications today, September 30, with...
"Even when you have it, it's not necessarily that you are going to use it," Francois Du Plessis, CEO of CFI South Africa, explains why the broker has not applied for an over-the-counter derivatives provider (ODP) licence in its home market. "It also costs around $100,000 to get it done," he told Finance Magnates, on...
Launching a brokerage has never been a simple exercise. Beyond licensing, liquidity, payments, risk management and client acquisition, operators also need to build the technology infrastructure that connects these functions. Historically, that has often meant committing to significant technology costs before a new...
CFTC registers Coinbase Clearing LLC as a DCO permitted to clear fully collateralised futures, options on futures and swaps, adding a clearing layer to Coinbase's FCM and DCM. The post Coinbase Clearing LLC Registered as DCO by CFTC for Fully Collateralised Derivatives first appeared on LeapRate .
James will be responsible for new business acquisition, listed derivatives execution, and relationship management soft commodities.
Enforcement on non-compliant finfluencers, the name given to influencers that promote financial products and services, has accelerated in 2026. Regulators and courts in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and India have imposed more fines, market bans, and custodial sentences on finfluencers than in previous years....
Kredittbanken ASA has selected FIS Total Issuing PRIME in the Cloud from FIS to modernize its consumer credit, loan and savings operations.
Valetax announced its participation as a Super Elite Sponsor at Forex Expo Dubai 2026, held on 22 and 23 September at the Dubai World Trade Centre. At Booth 3 in Hall 1, the company hosted traders, investors, and industry leaders for two days of learning, networking, and engagement with the region's trading community....
CXM will exhibit at iFX EXPO Asia 2026, taking place from 7 to 9 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Visitors can meet the CXM team at booth 38, where the company will present its newly launched partnership with TradingView and share its long-term vision for brokers, Introducing Brokers (IBs)...
Alpaca Securities has received in-principle approval (IPA) from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, a conditional step towards a Capital Markets Services (CMS) licence. London's trading industry is coming home! If granted, the licence would enable the company to provide brokerage and custodial services from Singapore...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today charged multiple entities that are likely operated by individuals located overseas for defrauding hundreds of retail investors.
The CFTC's approval of Coinbase Clearing LLC turns the US-based cryptocurrency exchange into an end-to-end derivatives platform. The entity, registered with the CFTC on September 28, is permitted to clear fully collateralised futures, options on futures, and swaps. How the Clearing Will Work Coinbase plans to use USDC...
The move into the world's largest capital market marks 21X Group's first expansion outside Europe.
Automations let broker administrators configure pre-built or custom Python scripts that act on predefined account conditions.
Valetax was one of the standout names at Forex Expo Dubai 2026, held on 22 and 23 September at the Dubai World Trade Centre. As a Super Elite Sponsor, the company hosted traders, investors, and industry leaders at Booth 3, Hall 1, offering two days of learning, networking, and entertainment for the region's trading...
cTrader Mobile 5.10 introduces a reorganised app layout with dedicated Positions and Markets apps and a redesigned login screen.
The Current Role of Regulatory Supervision in Brokerage The brokerage sector has changed considerably over the past decade. At this point, it is an industry with defined licensing pathways and standardized reporting cycles. The supervisory expectations apply across most major jurisdictions. Capital adequacy rules,...
Hugh Whelan, President of ACI UK Financial Markets Association and Head of Liquidity Management and Data Strategy at SGX FX, has been appointed Chair of the ACI FMA Foreign Exchange Committee. London's trading industry is coming home! ACI FMA also announced that Jon Healey will return as Vice Chair of the FXC. Healey...
FundedSeat, a futures-focused proprietary trading firm, announced its closure yesterday (Monday), citing "limitations from big trading platforms which kept [it] from reaching the growth [it] needed to become a major player." "We gave it everything we had," the prop firm noted in a letter to its community, signed by...
Fintech company Spotware has just rolled out version 5.11 of the cTrader Mobile app for iOS-based devices.
FX World 2026 will take place from 2 to 5 November at Fiera Roma, with a new FX Hall creating a dedicated space for the financial markets community, according to the organisers. The event is co-located with SiGMA World, AIBC World and Affiliate Grand Slam. The organisers say the FX Hall will bring together brokers......
UPTECH, an institutional financial technology provider, announced today its official participation as an exhibitor at iFX EXPO Asia 2026. The event is scheduled from October 7 to 9, 2026, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Located at Booth #17, UPTECH will present its "End-to-End Brokerage...
The prop trading firms outperforming their peers over the past two years share a structural feature that gets less attention than it deserves: most of them are backed by, affiliated with, or quietly becoming brokers themselves. London's trading industry is coming home! The conventional explanation is capital access. A...
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has secured confiscation orders worth £851,402 following a £1.54 million cryptocurrency investment fraud. If the full amount is recovered, it would cover about 55% of the losses reported by at least 65 investors. Southwark Crown Court ordered Raymondip Bedi to pay £603,404.28 and...
Victims of a £1.5m crypto investment fraud will recover lost funds after the FCA obtained confiscation orders against Raymondip Bedi and Patrick Mavanga.
MyForexFunds, the prop trading brand which was forced to close overnight by regulators, has been sold by Murtuza Kazmi-led Traders Global to Dubai-based Global Solutions, which is headed by Haider Raza, Finance Magnates has learned. Raza was a part of MyForexFunds' original staff and held the role of operations...
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology provider, today announced the promotion of Maxime Jeanniard du Dot to EVP, Margin Analytics.
On 7 - 9 October, Spotware Systems will be at iFX EXPO Asia 2026, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Booth 122, as the company continues to expand its presence across Asian markets. The team will be showcasing the newest cTrader and cBridge capabilities. cFinancial, an institutional liquidity provider,...
Finance Magnates, Devexperts and Pelican Announce Free Webinar on Scaling and Client Retention Finance Magnates,Devexperts and Pelican will bring together industry experts on October 15 to discuss broker growth strategies, trading technology, and how businesses can improve client retention in a competitive market....
For brokers, hedge funds and proprietary trading firms, the spread that matters is not the one on the screen - it is the one actually paid once slippage and rejections are counted. Drovix (MU) Ltd , a principal execution counterparty licensed by the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius as an Investment Dealer...
HSBC has adopted Nasdaq Calypso for the bank's exchange-traded derivatives (ETD) clearing platform.
IC (formerly IC Markets Global) joined more than 16,000 traders, brokers and industry professionals on the opening day of Forex Expo Dubai 2026, held on 22 - 23 September at Dubai World Trade Centre. In an executive interview and a leadership panel, Jason Hughes, General Manager, IC MENA, said that market access no...
Maria Shenouda joins Base Markets after recently leaving her position as Sales Director at MENA focused broker Daman Markets.
The event will bring together brokers, fintech companies, technology and liquidity providers, payment firms and other participants from across the financial services and online trading industry. As part of the programme, Jason will join the panel "From Bitcoin to Bullion: Where Is the Real Revenue?", examining how...
What happens when brokers spend tens of thousands of dollars on Meta ads without a proper system for testing their creatives? In the broker accounts we manage in Malaysia, a Meta budget typically runs at $50,000 - 70,000 a month. A broker without a proper testing system can launch 40 - 60 new creatives against that...
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has staged a comeback in crypto derivatives more than six years after closing its previous margin product. London's trading industry is coming home! The company's new leveraged trading service, "Coincheck Leverage, is not a revival of Coincheck's former lending-based margin...
Last week's failed CLARITY Act cloture vote will be read as a setback for crypto. That reading misses where decentralized finance (DeFi) compliance was actually heading. London's trading industry is coming home! Investors have been watching legislative headlines while the decisions that will govern DeFi access,...
Retail trading platforms increasingly compete as mass-market digital services. Users expect multi-device access, a wide range of markets, built-in analytical tools, and an intuitive interface. These capabilities are necessary, but as they become a standard part of the offering, technical features alone are no longer...
Monex Group, Inc today announced that Coincheck, Inc has launched a leveraged crypto asset trading service.
Crypto and TradFi platforms are converging rapidly, and the convergence is happening in both directions. For retail traders, the important shift is that the distinction between a crypto account and a brokerage account is starting to disappear. One of the best examples of a crypto platform becoming a multi-asset...
IG Group's new all-in-one app will absorb its main trading app "in the coming weeks," the company told FinanceMagnates.com this week. The app, to be known simply as IG, is meant to put trading, investing and crypto in one place. For now, the new app holds investing and crypto accounts. Spread betting and CFD trading...
Copy trading has become a standard offering for many brokers serving retail traders across APAC.
Underdog has deployed Eventus' Validus platform across its prediction markets, adding third-party trade surveillance already used by traditional exchanges, futures firms and broker-dealers. London's trading industry is coming home! The integration follows similar deployments by other regulated event-contract venues as...
Some customers of Revolut, Stake and Hatch have been affected by a security incident at US brokerage infrastructure provider DriveWealth. London's trading industry is coming home! An unauthorised party accessed personal and, in some cases, investment-related information on September 4 and 5. The categories of exposed...
Fintech company MetaQuotes will release an updated version of the MetaTrader 5 (MT5) platform on Friday, September 25, 2026.
Gain Capital UK Limited's FCA status changed to "Applied to Cancel" on 23 September 2026, formalising StoneX's move to run its UK retail FX and CFD business solely through StoneX Financial Ltd. The post Gain Capital UK Applies to Cancel FCA Licence as StoneX Consolidates onto Single UK Entity first appeared on...
Dorman Trading is now a clearing member of The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization.
"The core DNA of our business is transparency and integrity with our clients," says Amir Amidian. For the Director of Global Research at the InterStellar Group (FISG), those attributes have enabled the multi-asset broker not only to survive but actively thrive over a decade and a half in the relentlessly unforgiving...
Crypto prices fell for a second day on Thursday. Bitcoin was down 2.8% over 24 hours at about $83,400 by 08:50 UTC, while XRP lost 7.2% and Dogecoin 6.6%, according to CoinGecko data. No single headline drove the drop. It is a pullback after Monday's rally took bitcoin to its highest daily close since January, and it...
Brokerage technology is no longer measured by the number of products it supports. Every interaction should be connected, intuitive and consistent, whether that's onboarding, funding accounts, tracking commissions or support. Clients and partners expect those experiences. The new EAERA CBS addresses these expectations...
Gain Capital UK Limited has applied to cancel its authorization with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), a change the regulator's register dates to yesterday (Wednesday). The StoneX subsidiary has run the FOREX .com and City Index brands in Britain. The application closes out an entity the FCA has listed as...
The proprietary trading industry has grown quickly, and the technology underneath it has had to grow with it. Prop firms have moved well beyond forex and CFDs, brokers are launching their own challenge-based products, and traders now judge a firm as much on execution, platform stability and payout reliability as on...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has, for the first time, put a legal definition on what counts as a trading algorithm. The move sits at the center of a broader update to the rules governing automated and AI driven trading on Australian markets, announced this week by the regulator. Brokers,...
MoonPay has signed a merger deal for North Capital, gaining SEC-registered broker-dealer, ATS and transfer agent licences to underpin tokenised securities. The post MoonPay to Acquire North Capital, Adding SEC-Licensed Broker-Dealer and ATS to Tokenisation Push first appeared on LeapRate .
Raiffeisen Bank International and Bitpanda Enterprise have agreed on a common framework that will allow RBI's subsidiary banks across Central and Eastern Europe to add digital-asset services to their existing customer platforms. London's trading industry is coming home! RBI operates subsidiary banks in 11 CEE markets...
BitMEX shuts down today, closing out a controversial eleven-year run. It is the exchange that invented the perpetual swap, the product every crypto derivatives platform now runs on. At its peak, BitMEX controlled more than half the market. By the time HDR Global Trading announced the closure in July, that had shrunk...
Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued a warning regarding suspicious virtual asset trading platform Vebit.
France's blacklist of unauthorized investment websites is on course for its busiest year. In the versions published on September 11, the brand copied most often across the six lists is the regulator that publishes them. FM Intelligence parsed all six blacklists maintained by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF)...
The retail prop trading industry has exploded in recent years, yet it is still operating in a regulatory gray area. As funding challenges become a new frontier, a glaring question remains: who protects the trader when disputes arise? "In hindsight, we should have launched this service many years ago," says Nikolai...
Forex Expo Dubai 2026 opened at Dubai World Trade Centre on 22 September with more than 16,000 attendees on the first day, spread across five halls. Organisers put the exhibitor count at over 270 for the ninth edition of the event. The attendee mix ran across traders, investors, brokers, IBs, affiliates and other...
Binance announced today that it will migrate users' crypto assets from Funding Accounts to Spot Accounts.
Circle Internet Group and Binance have expanded their strategic partnership through a new five-year commercial agreement and a $100 million equity investment by Binance in Circle. London's trading industry is coming home! The move comes as USDC use expands beyond crypto trading. Circle received approval to establish a...
About half of proprietary trading firms let employees use artificial intelligence relatively freely, a survey by Acuiti published today (Tuesday) shows. A third have no formal AI governance policy, while every bank in the sample controls how its staff use the technology. The gap sits inside a market that is already...
Public has joined TradingView as a broker partner, giving traders in the US another option for placing stock, ETF, and options orders directly from their Supercharts.
21shares, a global provider of crypto ETPs, today announced the launch of two new products: the 21shares ether.fi ETP (ticker: ETHFI) and the 21shares Zcash ETP (ticker: ZCASH).
Devexperts said today (Tuesday) that Indonesia's commodity futures regulator has approved its white-label DXtrade platform. The approval allows the country's commodity futures and derivatives brokers to license the software. The Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency (Bappebti), which sits under Indonesia's...
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe, the London-based investment banking and brokerage arm of Cantor Fitzgerald, plans to open a branch in Abu Dhabi this year. The plan appears in its 2025 annual accounts, which Companies House published yesterday (Monday). Its existing Gulf branch, in Dubai, lost $2.4 million in 2025 on...
Finalto Financial Services, the London-based brokerage arm of liquidity provider Finalto, paid a $10 million dividend in 2025 after several years of retaining its earnings. Its accounts, filed with Companies House on September 15, also show the company decided to wind down its retail business. Money the company owed...
CloudTech Group has launched RooRooEx, an Integral-powered digital asset trading platform aimed at institutions, high-net-worth clients and individual investors. London's trading industry is coming home! The company plans to make the platform available in Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, although it has not...
RooRooEx supports AUD and USD trading pairs across major cryptocurrencies, alongside USDT trading capabilities.
XS.com has appointed Kasem Hekal as Senior Business Development Manager, based in Dubai. The multi-asset broker says the hire is part of its investment in senior commercial expertise to grow business opportunities, strengthen client and partner relationships, and support sustainable growth in MENA. Hekal has more than...
Years of technological advances in electronic execution have largely passed the FX swaps market by. A significant share of this roughly $4 trillion-a-day market still relies on traders and voice brokers. London's trading industry is coming home! According to Bank for International Settlements data, around 56% of FX...
Coinbase is expanding its US retail offering by allowing eligible customers to request shares in selected initial public offerings before public trading begins. London's trading industry is coming home! The move comes as crypto platforms expand into traditional markets. Kraken's parent Payward has moved to give retail...
Mauritius boasts one of the most robust offshore financial systems, benefiting from strong capitalisation and profitability. With a strongly capitalised banking system, with assets accounting for almost 100% of GDP, and an above-average financial literacy rate among adults, Mauritius continues to strengthen its...
Liquidity bridge provider Tools for Brokers (TFB) has integrated GBE Prime's multi-asset liquidity feeds directly into its Trade Processor platform. The partnership allows retail brokers to plug into GBE Prime's institutional pricing, spanning FX, metals, and crypto, while using TFB's infrastructure for order routing...
Ramy Soliman, the former chief executive of prime-of-prime broker Stater Global Markets, has co-founded a startup built to send stablecoin payments to basic mobile phones. He announced the Abu Dhabi venture, Saleem, in a LinkedIn post today (Monday). Saleem wants aid agencies, ministries, employers and banks to pay...
Breinrock has submitted applications for a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) license and a Payment Institution (PI) license under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. The filings were made through Breinrock s.r.o., the group's Czech entity, and submitted to the Czech National Bank. If approved, the...
The nomination round for the UF AWARDS APAC 2026 is drawing to a close. If your brand is reaching new heights in online trading or fintech across Asia-Pacific, now is the time to make sure it gets recognized. Nominations close on September 21st, giving brokers and other B2B providers a limited window to put their...
XTB's clients in Romania are older than its customer base as a whole, according to figures the Polish broker has released this year. About one in five of its Romanian users is aged 18 to 30, XTB analyst Radu Puiu said last Thursday at a capital markets conference in Bucharest. Across all of XTB 's markets, 18- to...
Alya's promotion follows the departure late last year of GCEX Dubai Managing Director Mehtap Önder, who moved to crypto platform Fasset.
GCEX promoted Alya Marrakchi to managing director of GC Exchange FZE, its Dubai-based crypto broker-dealer, today (Monday). The Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) approved the appointment, according to the announcement. Marrakchi joined the sales team of London-headquartered GCEX in June 2025 to build...
Cybersecurity has always been a community-driven discipline. Threat actors collaborate openly, sharing tools, techniques and infrastructure, while defenders traditionally responded by sharing intelligence, vulnerabilities and lessons learned. That collective knowledge has always been one of our greatest strengths....
American retail traders are on course to buy leveraged exposure to a single stock on lighter margin than European rules allow for the same trade. FM Intelligence has published an analysis putting the US floor at 15% of a position's value. The same exposure sold to a retail client in the European Union or the United...
What multi-asset liquidity provider has rebranded as Evenox? Which executives have joined Evenox, from Match-Prime?
Binance is adding foreign exchange to its crypto derivatives platform, starting with a 24/7 perpetual contract linked to the US dollar against the Brazilian real. London's trading industry is coming home! The move follows Bybit's launch of three FX majors earlier this month. How Binance FX Perpetual Futures Work The...
The crypto market is up today (Friday), with Bitcoin back above $80,000 and Ethereum, XRP and Dogecoin rising 6% to 7%. Bitcoin traded at $80,914 on Binance at 18:07 UTC, up 5.9% on the day, while Ether rose 6.4% to $2,603, XRP gained 7.3% to $1.39 and Dogecoin added 7% to $0.0874 on Bitstamp. The move comes two days...
Turkish authorities have detained 175 people in an investigation into an international fraud network accused of targeting foreign investors through fake forex and cryptocurrency investment schemes. London's trading industry is coming home! Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said coordinated raids were carried out across...
mBank's brokerage arm will stop letting clients open new forex and CFD positions on October 1. That leaves Dom Maklerski BOŚ and Alior Bank's brokerage unit as the last traditional Polish houses offering the product, Polish daily Parkiet reported. The exit comes as the market grows. The Polish Financial Supervision...
Hantec Prime, the institutional division of Hantec Markets, has reported trading volume up more than 300% year-to-date and the addition of 42 new institutional clients since December, capping one of its strongest years of growth to date. The firm, which provides liquidity, execution and prime-brokerage infrastructure...
Ant International has launched a full stack of AI-native solutions for payment, account, FX, treasury and growth operations for global businesses.
The prop trading industry has run on the same challenge-based model for years: traders pay fees to enter evaluations, clear one or more phases, and only then receive access to a funded account. RaiseMyFunds is leaving that model behind. From September 2026, the firm offers instant funding and nothing else. The...
Transparency is one of the most common promises in financial services, but publishing internal operational metrics is a different matter. Brokers may be comfortable discussing products, technology and trading conditions, yet figures covering failed verification attempts, payment issues, withdrawal delays, execution...
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has carried out further operations with law enforcement partners against illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading in London. The regulator worked with HM Revenue & Customs and the Metropolitan Police Service to target three premises suspected of being involved in illegal peer-to-peer...
The renewed partnership will see Neo continue to provide foreign exchange and international payment services to the Wolves.
VARIANSE shares how cTrader Copy supports investors, strategy providers, IBs and money managers, backed by real client results and million-dollar allocations.
Italy's Companies and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) today announced that it has issued orders for the blocking of access to six websites.
Shadi Salloum replaces APC Prime founder Ouais Wajhani in the CEO role.
Liquidnet, a New York agency broker known for large block trades, today (Thursday) gave its trading algorithms a single brand, Meridian. The suite covers algorithms, venue access, analytics and AI-enabled tools, the TP ICAP Group unit said. Liquidnet said the brand should help it win more institutional algorithmic...
Dubai-based broker APC Prime named Shadi Salloum its global chief executive today (Thursday). The company said he will run its operations worldwide and lead an expansion beyond the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), where it has built its business so far. Salloum comes from XS.com, which hired him as its regional...
APC Prime has appointed Shadi Salloum as Global Chief Executive Officer, tasking him with taking the multi-asset broker beyond its established MENA base. The Dubai-headquartered firm describes the move as the start of a new phase focused on global growth. Salloum has a long leadership record in online trading; before...
Devexperts began offering South Korean brokers a packaged service for US stock trading today (Thursday). The company said the package covers the client-facing platform, market data and order execution, so a broker can add US shares without assembling several vendors. The front end is DXtrade, which Devexperts licenses...
DTCC said Wednesday that it has added Ondo Finance as the first tokenisation member of its Fund/SERV platform, in a move both firms said brings tokenised funds closer to mainstream adoption. The market infrastructure provider said Ondo Finance's subsidiary Oasis Pro Markets, a US registered broker-dealer and...
Moscow Exchange will launch ruble-settled perpetual-style futures linked to five crypto indices on 22 September, giving qualified investors price exposure without delivery of the underlying assets. London's trading industry is coming home! The exchange first introduced crypto derivatives in summer 2025. Since then,...
Apex Fintech Solutions and FusionIQ are linking Apex's clearing and custody infrastructure with FusionIQ's digital wealth tools for financial institutions launching or expanding investment services. London's trading industry is coming home! The collaboration will allow mutual clients to pair Apex's brokerage, custody...
TradingView has introduced an official Model Context Protocol Server in beta. It allows users to connect their TradingView accounts to compatible AI assistants and access platform data and tools through natural-language conversations. The service is available through MCP-compatible clients, including Claude and...
Deribit is adding more than 90 USDC-settled linear perpetual futures, including contracts tied to public companies, ETFs, commodities and private-company valuations. London's trading industry is coming home! The launch marks the exchange's first move into listed equity and ETF perpetuals. The new product set also...
FCA guidance names the crypto activities needing authorisation, two weeks before the application gateway opens on 30 September 2026. The post FCA Publishes Cryptoasset Authorisation Perimeter Guidance Ahead of 30 September 2026 Gateway first appeared on LeapRate | Online Trading Industry News, Broker Intelligence &...
Roughly one in five (21%) retail brokers on Trustpilot, including many of the industry's high-volume heavyweights, have been slapped with a formal consumer warning banner, according to a Finance Magnates review of 100 profiles. According to Trustpilot's guidelines, these glaring red banners are deployed when the...
In proprietary trading, the challenge stage is treated as a test of trading skill. Increasingly, it is not. It is a test of whether a trader can perform inside conditions engineered to be survivable, and those conditions rarely resemble what the same trader will face once funded. London's trading industry is coming...
FXBO and Overchain have partnered to integrate stablecoin deposits, withdrawals, and fiat conversion within brokers' existing banking infrastructure. The post FXBO Partners with Overchain to Integrate Stablecoin Payments with Banking first appeared on LeapRate | Online Trading Industry News, Broker Intelligence &...
Gold-i, the UK-based FX and crypto trading technology provider, said on September 16 that it has integrated Crypto Finance Group into MatrixNET, its multi-asset liquidity bridge. Crypto Finance is part of Deutsche Börse Group, the German exchange operator, and the tie-up gives Gold-i's brokers, proprietary trading...
Gold-i MatrixNET clients can connect to Crypto Finance through a range of trading platforms including MT4 and MT5.
Prior to joining Hantec Prime, Veronica was at INGOT. She has also previously worked at GA Brokers, and GBE Brokers.
Hantec Prime, the institutional division of Hantec Markets, today announced the appointment of Veronica Dager as Senior Institutional Sales. Dager brings more than 15 years of experience in sales and client relationship management across international markets, together with a focused track record in the FX industry...
Overchain gives FXBO's global broker network a regulated, compliant pathway to accept stablecoin deposits and process withdrawals.
CME Group has expanded its credit ecosystem with the launch of S&P UBS USD Liquid Leveraged Loan Index futures, which began trading on 14 September. The derivatives exchange operator said the contracts, which track the S&P UBS index, offer a centrally cleared, capital-efficient tool for relative value trading,...
Bitpanda is preparing for another change at the top less than a year after Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad became its sole CEO. The move comes as the crypto broker delays a potential initial public offering. London's trading industry is coming home! Bitpanda said he will remain CEO until his departure with co-founder and...
Revolut has appointed Nilesh Khatwani as Global Head of Institutional Sales, Crypto, hiring an executive with extensive institutional crypto sales experience. London's trading industry is coming home! His appointment comes as Revolut develops crypto products for companies and professional users and prepares to offer...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced that its S&P UBS USD Liquid Leveraged Loan Index futures began trading on September 14.
Spec Markets has integrated iSAM Securities' Radar risk analytics platform and Apex bridge into its trading operations, adding tools for risk monitoring, liquidity routing and execution management. London's trading industry is coming home! The move follows other developments involving iSAM Securities' trading...
Assetera has added xStocks to its platform, giving eligible retail investors and B2B partners access to more than 200 tokenised stocks across 30 EU and EEA markets. The move follows other European distribution deals for xStocks, including its debut on Deutsche Börse's 360X earlier this year. London's trading industry...
Market Companion is Acuity's broker-facing market intelligence product, following Acuity's investment in MarketReader.
Revolut recently received in-principle approval to provide Crypto services in the UAE, and also holds a CySEC MiCA license in Cyprus.
Match-Trade Technologies has launched Match-Prop, a managed service that allows trading influencers, financial educators, introducing brokers and trading communities to launch branded proprietary trading businesses. The company said partners can launch within seven days without building their own trading technology or...
cTrader offers Market Replay to support trader education and engagement with historical market simulation, strategy testing and session review.
Bloomberg has launched its FX Options RFQ API on FXGO, enabling end-to-end programmatic RFQ trading for the buy-side FX options market for the first time. The post Bloomberg Launches FX Options RFQ API on FXGO, Enabling Full Programmatic Execution first appeared on LeapRate | Online Trading Industry News, Broker...
WhiteBIT has expanded its TradingView integration with TradFi pairs - perpetual crypto futures instruments that track price movements of traditional market assets.
CoinEx, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange founded in December 2017 by mining pool ViaBTC, today (Tuesday) announced that it will cease operations and begin an orderly liquidation, citing the prolonged downturn in the crypto market, shrinking trading volume and liquidity, rising regulatory requirements, and...
Despite the recent rebound in digital asset prices, a year-long slump in crypto trading volumes is starting to take its toll.
In a far-reaching interview, OpenPayd's Chief Commercial Officer Lux Thiagarajah discusses his transition from traditional foreign exchange trading to the world of digital finance, and outlined his company's ambitious plans for global expansion. With a background rooted in financial risk management, Thiagarajah is now...
CME Group reported Monday that 2,387 of its 100-Ounce Silver futures contracts traded during the first weekend of 24/7 trading, representing over $15 million in notional value. The derivatives exchange operator said silver's strong start follows the successful uptake of round-the-clock trading in gold. Since 24/7...
Senate Republicans have added language giving state attorneys general a role in enforcing parts of the CLARITY Act. That has not resolved the larger dispute over whether the crypto market-structure bill would weaken powers states already have under their own laws. London's trading industry is coming home! New York...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced that 2,387 100-Ounce Silver futures contracts traded during the first weekend of 24/7 trading.
FXCubic has connected its liquidity bridge to LMAX Group's perpetual futures markets, the two companies said today (Monday). Brokers running the FXCubic Bridge can now route orders to those contracts without building a direct connection to LMAX. LMAX supplies perpetual futures across more than 20 markets, trading...
Saudi Arabia combines the Gulf's largest population and stock market with a fast-growing investment industry, but it is not an easy extension market for an offshore retail FX or CFD broker. A CFD-only launch based on cross-border solicitation carries a much weaker regulatory and commercial case. London's trading...
Investrade has joined the list of TradingView integrated brokers, giving traders US-regulated access to stocks, ETFs, and options.
US institutional broker and fintech provider Edgewater Markets is continuing its international - and specifically UAE - expansion push, adding […]
Your Bourse opened an office in Kuala Lumpur on Friday and will base its operations and support teams there, the trading technology provider said. The company said its client base across Asia-Pacific has grown and that it wanted staff closer to the brokers it serves. Malaysia runs on UTC+8, which puts the new team...
The starting gun has fired. Nominations for the UF AWARDS APAC 2026 are officially open, and the window to secure a place among the Asia-Pacific region's most recognised brokers, fintechs, and B2B providers is now counting down. This is the phase that decides everything that follows. Only nominated brands advance to...
Bloomberg today launched its FX Options RFQ API on FXGO, its electronic foreign exchange trading solution.
Brokeree Solutions redesigned the interface for PAMM, its money management system for brokers, the company said today (Monday). PAMM is the third of its investment products to move onto one shared design system. Brokeree counts nearly 15% of roughly 1,000 brokers worldwide as offering managed account services, a...
Kudo began quoting gold through the weekend today (Monday), listing a seven-day contract called XAUUSD247 for clients of its Mauritius-licensed brokerage. The instrument trades in one-ounce units, and a client can hold no more than 50 of them in a single position. Gold is carrying an outsized share of retail flow this...
Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. (TOCOM) said Monday that it has approved ABN AMRO Clearing Tokyo Co., Ltd. as a Broker Trading Participant. The approval was granted on September 14, 2026, and Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC) has simultaneously awarded ABN AMRO an Energy Futures Clearing Qualification. The...
Currency pairs made up 13.7% of the volume retail brokers reported in the second quarter, down from 26.8% a year earlier, FM Intelligence said today (Monday). Monthly FX volume across the brokers it tracks fell to $4.2 trillion from $6.4 trillion. Volume in index, commodity, equity and crypto CFDs rose over the same...
More than 10 million EU retail investors traded derivatives or structured products between 2022 and 2025, with contracts for difference accounting for 35% of transactions in complex products, according to new analysis by the European Securities and Markets Authority. London's trading industry is coming home! The...
Cryptocurrency trading volumes across Robinhood and Bitstamp increased 61% month over month to $17.5 billion in August, although activity remained 38% below the previous year's level. London's trading industry is coming home! Bitstamp generated $10.1 billion of the total, exceeding the $7.4 billion traded through the...
Platforms marketing or selling event contracts in Europe may need authorisation under financial, crypto-asset or national gambling rules, ESMA said. London's trading industry is coming home! In the latest Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities report , regulator added that the largest prediction-market platforms do not...
Singapore is moving fraud detection beyond the data held by individual banks, testing whether financial institutions, law enforcement and the regulator can identify suspicious payment chains through a shared testing setup. London's trading industry is coming home! The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is working...
John Kinghorn has joined Peratera as Commercial Director, following more than two decades in partnerships, business development and relationship management roles across payments and financial services. "One of the biggest challenges for brokers and financial services firms is finding the right mix of traditional and...
Spotware Systems is becoming a liquidity provider in its own right. The cTrader vendor will debut cFinancial, an institutional liquidity arm, at Forex Expo Dubai 2026 on 22 and 23 September, giving it a three-part stack of platform, bridge and liquidity sold by a single supplier. The launch changes Spotware's...
CME Group said Thursday that it will launch CME Securities Clearing on 7 December. The move is said to offer market participants a new option to clear US Treasury cash and repo transactions and comply with the SEC's central clearing mandate, pending regulatory approvals. The derivatives exchange operator noted that...
Crypto trading was up 61% from July 2026 at $17.5 billion, following Bitcoin's price leap up to above $80,000 mid month.
On the 1st of September, the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission published its proposed rules on online forex trading and contracts for difference, issued under the Investments and Securities Act No. 2 of 2025. The trade press has largely settled on a single verdict, and it is not positive. London's trading...
France's financial markets regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), issued a public warning about a growing number of fraudulent schemes operating through cloned news websites. Scammers are increasingly copying the visual identities and branding of major media outlets, such as Le Monde, Le Figaro, France...
CME Group is timing its entry into cash Treasury clearing for the final weeks before the SEC mandate, opening a new clearing revenue line and extending the margin economics around its interest-rate futures franchise. CME Securities Clearing will begin operating on 7 December, 24 days before covered cash Treasury...
One of the largest cryptocurrency thefts from a single victim did not require breaking Bitcoin's cryptography. Stolen data, a credible story and the victim's cooperation were enough to take over $245 million in virtual currency from a single Washington, D.C. resident in August 2024. On September 8, 2026, Malone Lam, a...
Back in the 6th century BC, ancient Greek fabulist Aesop came up with the story The Tortoise and the Hare, which still resonates today. The story's moral: slow and steady wins the race. I found applying the same logic to crypto regulation quite useful, and more specifically, using it as a basis for comparing US and EU...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced that it will launch CME Securities Clearing Inc. on December 7, 2026.
Complaints from retail investors to the Autorité des Marchés Financiers mediator rose 37% in 2025, the sharpest annual increase since the mediator began tracking the data. The AMF mediation service received 3,010 new requests and closed 2,772 cases, up 41% from 2024. Its backlog also rose to 693 cases from 455 a year...
BGC Group today announced it has launched Fenics AI, and that its subsidiary, Aurel BGC, has completed its first-ever fully AI brokered institutional trade in listed equity derivatives.
We had reported back in May that the CEO of IG Group Singapore, Gavin Chia, had moved to online broker Longbridge.
Italy's Companies and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) today announced it has ordered the blocking of access to 11 unauthorized investment websites.
Jefferies Financial Group is winding down its outsourced fixed-income trading desk and losing unit head Joram Siegel, just a year after seeking to expand the business. The post Jefferies Winds Down Outsourced Fixed-Income Trading Desk first appeared on LeapRate | Online Trading Industry News, Broker Intelligence &...
Spotware Systems will attend Forex Expo Dubai 2026 on 22 - 23 September at Booth 136, Dubai World Trade Centre, demonstrating its technology innovations for brokers and prop firms. The main highlight will be the debut of cFinancial, an institutional liquidity provider that expands Spotware's product line as the...
Caplin Systems, a provider of web trading solutions for institutional capital markets, said Thursday that it has launched a hosted, end-to-end white-label digital asset solution aimed at institutional trading desks. The offering is designed for OTC desks, brokers, traditional finance firms and crypto market makers,...
Gives sell-side firms hosted multi-asset trading infrastructure out of the box with deployment in as little as 12 weeks.
Online trading platform IG Group is cutting hundreds of jobs just weeks after agreeing a $1.3 billion US acquisition, Sky News reported on Wednesday. The London-listed company has reportedly told staff that a reorganisation will result in a significant number of layoffs. A source is said to have revealed that the...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced senior leadership appointments in its finance and legal divisions.
London-based broker Valutrades has paused the onboarding of new clients across both its UK- and Seychelles-regulated entities, Finance Magnates has verified. Clarifying the move, CEO Graeme Watkins stated, "I can confirm we are not exiting the global market but are making some changes to the business." Despite...
Every broker already knows its exposure. Positions, profit and loss, margin thresholds and a wall of threshold alerts describe the book in real time. The problem is that all of it describes a moment that has already passed. None of it tells a broker who is generating that exposure whether the behaviour is part of a...
BVNK and Marqeta, Inc. (NASDAQ:MQ) today announced a partnership to deliver stablecoin-backed card capabilities to crypto-native and non-crypto companies.
Alexis previously spent three years as Head of Platform for the Match Trader multi-asset trading platform at Match-Trade Technologies.
Spotware Systems has named Sergei Grigoriev general manager of cFinancial, the institutional liquidity provider the cTrader developer recently registered, FinanceMagnates.com has lerarned. It will quote brokers a starting commission of $4 per $1 million traded, the company said today (Wednesday). Brokers running...
Tradition said Tuesday that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Affin Moneybrokers Sdn. Bhd., one of Malaysia's leading interbank money brokers, to strengthen market data infrastructure in the country's financial markets. The agreement will see Tradition supply market data infrastructure, pricing...
Tradition today announced a partnership with Affin Moneybrokers Sdn. Bhd., one of Malaysia's leading interbank money brokers.
While crypto exchanges and retail brokers have largely converged on MCP integrations in their AI roadmaps, some, such as Bybit, are now adding a conversational AI front end that sits on top of that infrastructure. The second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume has unveiled today (Wednesday) Bybit AI for everyday...
A French regulator is examining Robinhood's front-of-shirt sponsorship of OGC Nice, L'Équipe reported yesterday (Tuesday). The National Gambling Authority (ANJ) review concerns Robinhood's prediction-market business, which France treats as unauthorized gambling. That distinction matters. French law makes advertising...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group has issued a notice of disciplinary action against StoneX Financial, Inc.
Archax now has a regulated route into US securities distribution, entering the market without recreating its exchange, custody and clearing stack. The digital asset firm will operate as an introducing broker, relying on tZERO for the underlying US infrastructure. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)...
Robinhood announced on Tuesday that it is partnering with Crypto.com to route a selection of prediction market contracts through Crypto.com's CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse, expanding the trading platform's reach as it heads into a busy fall of football and midterm election activity. Under the agreement,...
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) expects its new cryptoasset regime to generate a net benefit of just GBP 120 million. FM Intelligence said today (Tuesday) its analysis found GBP 1.435 billion in modeled benefits against GBP 1.315 billion in costs over a 10-year appraisal period. That margin equals 9.1% of the...
Bybit is adding 24/7 FX perpetuals to the account structure it uses for crypto derivatives, while keeping them separate from its MetaTrader 5-based CFD service. The exchange listed perpetual contracts on EURUSDUSDT, GBPUSDUSDT and USDJPYUSDT on Tuesday. Each product offers leverage of up to 100x and tracks the...
Robinhood is adding Crypto.com's prediction-market contracts to its app and taking minority stakes in both Crypto.com and OG, the exchange's prediction-markets business. The companies agreed to a multiyear deal, according to The Wall Street Journal. Financial terms, including the size of Robinhood's investments, were...
SIX has launched SIX Market Signal, a new market data service providing real-time European equity prices through APIs. The service comes as SIX expands its European equity infrastructure. In October last year, SIX selected Aquis to build a shared trading platform connecting SIX Swiss Exchange , BME and Aquis, with the...
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) will embed FairXchange's Horizon execution analytics into its institutional foreign exchange platform, the companies said today (Tuesday). The integration gives TT's FX clients independent data on execution quality across spot trades, forwards, non-deliverable forwards...
SIX has launched a new data marketplace today that will make data more accessible and affordable through an API-based solution for both institutional and retail traders.
Ultima Markets began quoting a gold CFD through the weekend yesterday (Monday), listing XAUUSD247 on MetaTrader 5. It is the fourth broker to ship a weekend gold symbol under that exact ticker. The contract is one ounce. Ultima caps it at 100 lots, so the largest weekend position a client can hold is 100 ounces,...
Lord Peter Cruddas will join a fireside chat at FM Summit London on 24 November 2026 at Old Billingsgate. Lord Cruddas founded CMC Markets in 1989. The firm launched the first online foreign exchange trading platform, introduced retail contracts for difference to the UK market, and listed on the London Stock Exchange...
Institutional foreign exchange activity eased across most large venues in August. Average daily volume fell at three of the four platforms tracked by FinanceMagnates.com, with Cboe FX posting the largest decline at 8.7%. All four still traded above their year-earlier levels. Annual gains ranged from 13.4% at Cboe to...
Equitrade Markets Ltd, trading as TF Financial, C&C Stockbrokers, Espread, Shareserve, CFD Choice and CH Markets, is no longer trading.
ExeQution Analytics launched Solas today (Tuesday), a custom analytics service for foreign exchange desks. The company says deployment can take as little as three months. Global foreign exchange turnover reached $9.6 trillion per day in April 2025 , according to the Bank for International Settlements. That volume...
Registrations out of Pakistan come in at $4.30, among the cheapest leads in any market we buy in. We did not earn that price through media buying. It is what happens when most of the industry reads two policy pages, concludes the market is shut, and never tests the assumption. Those leads convert to first deposits at...
New GOLD247 instrument gives eligible clients access to gold trading on Saturdays and Sundays through MetaTrader 5, extending TradeQuo's gold offering beyond the conventional trading week. Gold is already one of the world's most actively traded financial assets. During the first half of 2026, global gold-market...
FiveComply has grown from its Cyprus headquarters into an international regulatory and compliance group with local operations in Cyprus, Dubai, Mauritius and Seychelles. Today, the Group specialises in international financial services licensing, including Forex / CFD licensing, crypto licensing, Investment Firm...
Kazakhstan is trying to turn its new first-category payment organisation licence into a regulated channel for crypto-linked regional settlement. Under a memorandum with the National Bank, Binance plans to create a local group company, apply for that licence and route part of its regional payments and money-transfer...
CME Group said Monday that its FX futures and options reached a new open interest record of 4,410,167 contracts on 4 September, surpassing the previous high of 4,269,622 contracts set on 11 June. The derivatives exchange operator revealed that the number of large open interest holders in FX futures reached an all-time...
Marex Group (NASDAQ: MRX) has appointed Robert Cheeseman as Head of Prime Services Asia, the company confirmed. Based in Hong Kong, Cheeseman will lead Marex's prime brokerage and outsourced trading operations across the region. Cheeseman brings more than 25 years of institutional experience spanning listed...
Piotr Szczygieł is now with prop firm tech provider Trade Tech Solutions, and will serve as Head of Sales.
An investment portfolio using Anthropic's Claude language model attracted about $27 million from investors copying its trades before reporting a 19.04% return in early August. The Claude Portfolio launched in March with $50,000 and a goal of outperforming the S&P 500. By August 4, it reported a 19.04% gain, compared...
Institutional participation in CME Group's listed foreign exchange derivatives market has reached new highs as buy-side firms increase their use of centrally cleared FX futures and options. Asset Managers Push CME FX Open Interest to New High Asset managers' notional open interest in CME FX futures exceeded $200...
CXM has obtained a licence in Cambodia, which is becoming an attractive country for many brokers in Southeast Asia. The Securities and Exchange Regulator of Cambodia (SERC) granted the broker a licence on 12 August 2026, Finance Magnates has learned. The new licence also came when the broker expanded its product...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced that its FX futures and options reached a new open interest record of 4,410,167 contracts.
Rob Cheeseman will oversee Marex's Prime Services business in Asia, driving growth across prime brokerage and outsourced trading.
A Tel Aviv District Court judge convicted Roy Cuzin on Sunday of multiple counts of aiding aggravated fraud, The Jerusalem Post reported. Cuzin served as UTrade's chief analyst from 2012 to 2015. He pleaded guilty after prosecutors filed an amended indictment narrowing the scope of his role in the scheme. The...
Mars FX US LP never told its investors which brokers held their money. A disclosure statement filed on August 4 names two of them: Equiti Capital UK Limited in London and GO Markets Pty Ltd in Melbourne. The fund's offering documents said those identities were commercially sensitive. Neither Equiti nor GO Markets is...
The traditional retail brokerage model is facing an existential ceiling. In a market where spreads on major FX pairs hover near zero and acquisition costs (CAC) continue to climb across competitive search and social channels, brokers relying solely on churn-and-burn call centers are watching their margins evaporate....
UTrade owner Aviv Talmor was convicted back in 2023 of defrauding investors of NIS 77 million, and is now serving a five year jail sentence.
Avatar Securities, LLC has agreed to pay a fine of $100,000 as a part of a settlement with Nasdaq Phlx LLC.
Spotware Systems, the Cyprus developer behind the cTrader platform, has extended into institutional liquidity through a Seychelles-licensed entity called cFinancial. The website is live and open to inquiries , and a 13-page white paper is available to download, ahead of a formal announcement. cFinancial offers pricing...
FundingPips expanded its built-in trade copier to display MetaTrader 5, cTrader and Match-Trader yesterday (Sunday). A screen shared by the CEO, Khaled Ayesh, showed all three connection options, while the prop trading firm acknowledged on X that Match-Trader had gone live. Traders using more than one platform can now...
Australia removed 45 remittance and virtual asset businesses from its anti-money laundering registers over the past year. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) disclosed the figure today (Monday), combining cancellations, suspensions and refusals to renew registrations. The consequence is...
The move marks a continued expansion by Spotware into becoming a full-suite tech and service provider to brokers.
Which licenses did (formerly offshore) CFDs broker GODO secure? Who is behind the launch of new offshore CFDs broker Noemon Global?
Regulatory changes, business expansion and product diversification shaped a busy week across retail trading and fintech. Regulators in Nigeria and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines introduced measures affecting leveraged products and virtual asset businesses, while Deriv secured a banking licence in SVG. Elsewhere,...
Spotware's cBridge has partnered with regtech company Finmatek to help brokers manage regulatory reporting under MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR, CRS, FATCA and other frameworks. cBridge, launched in March 2026 , is a standalone liquidity bridge with fixed infrastructure-based pricing. It connects brokers to liquidity providers...
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (JPMS) has agreed to a censure and a $250,000 fine from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) after the firm admitted to longstanding failures in its margin account disclosures, according to a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver, and Consent (AWC) published by the regulator. According...
cBridge has partnered with Finmatek, a regulatory technology and compliance solutions provider, to help brokers handle compliance requirements.
Paycode today announced that Colin Digby, a seasoned industry veteran in global payments and FX, has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer.
On Friday, September 4, 2026, an updated version of the MetaTrader 5 (MT5) platform will be released.
MetaQuotes released MetaTrader 5 Build 6180 on Thursday, September 3, 2026, extending the set of tools available to its AI Assistant. External AI agents connected via Model Context Protocol can now retrieve reports and logs from the Strategy Tester and analyse them. They can also initiate optimisation runs directly,...
Blackwell Global Investments' directors had been busy cutting expenses in FY 2025; still, the annual operating loss increased nearly tenfold as the UK-regulated broker continued to reshape its business after moving away from retail trading. Operating loss widened to £172,449 from £21,074, while the loss before tax and...
Russia's largest trading venue, Moscow Exchange (MOEX), announced the upcoming launch of 20 new perpetual futures contracts linked to major U.S.-listed companies. The underlying assets for the new derivatives are MOEX-calculated price fixings for foreign securities, including Tesla, Amazon, Netflix, Apple, AMD,...
The Financial Commission has stopped EBC Financial Group's membership. The broker was removed from the private dispute-resolution scheme after "numerous failures" to comply with the established rules and guidelines. The expulsion took effect on 31 August 2026, meaning that EBC Financial Group clients are no longer...
Physically-backed BITC and ETHE now available to platform's two million retail investors, following the FCA's decision to lift the retail ban on crypto ETPs.
"What matters to us is making Deriv a better, more efficient company, one that gives clients a real reason to stay with us." That is how Rakshit Choudhary, CEO of Deriv, frames the online broker's push to become what the company calls an AI-first business, a label that has become close to meaningless in an industry...
Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unveiled an inaugural framework on Tuesday tailored for CFDs and forex. This marks another push toward stricter oversight in another African nation. Notably, the SEC intends to ban binary options entirely while curtailing traditional finfluencer marketing tactics and...
TradeLocker added TFB's Trade Processor liquidity bridge today (Thursday), giving its broker clients another route to external liquidity. The companies said the system connects to more than 100 providers and includes real-time risk analytics. TradeLocker clients can now pair its front end with TFB's order-routing and...
CFD brokers have spent 2026 extending gold trading into weekends and adding smaller contracts. Born2trade turned overnight financing into another competitive edge on Tuesday, advertising credits of up to $19.99 per XAU/USD lot and $2.99 per XAG/USD lot for eligible long positions. LMAX Group, Scope Prime, CMC Markets,...
The move comes soon after a group of Sucden FX sales executives moved to rival StoneX, including the Head of FX Sales, Mike Wilkins.
Sucden Financial has appointed Harry Clarke as Head of FX Sales for EMEA, effective 1 September 2026. Clarke reports to Wayne Roworth, Global Head of FX at the multi-asset execution, clearing and liquidity provider. Clarke joins from UBS, where he spent more than eight years in FX sales roles, most recently as a...
CME Group, the Chicago-based derivatives marketplace, reported its second-highest August average daily volume (ADV) on record, with 29.7 million contracts traded during the month, up 6% from August 2025. The gains were broad-based across asset classes, though interest rate products and metals stood out. Interest Rate...
Crypto Finance (Germany) GmbH has appointed Laura Hermann as Managing Director, effective July 1, 2026. The move rounds out the company's German management team, which also includes Moritz Weber and Christian Müller. In her new position, Hermann will focus on driving the company's strategic growth within the...
VARIANSE is controlled by its co-founders, brothers Rohit Mirpuri (CEO) and Anil Mirpuri (COO).
cTrader's YouTube channel reached 221,000 subscribers today (Thursday), more than twice its previously announced milestone. Spotware is pairing the audience growth with a creator program focused initially on artificial intelligence in trading. The public channel displayed 221,000 subscribers when checked by...
COINPRO will use Integral technology to aggregate liquidity, automate pricing and support transactions between crypto and fiat currencies.
cTrader introduces the cTrader creator program, a new initiative built to develop long-term partnerships with creators working in AI, coding, technology and trading.
Laura Hermann led business development for BlackRock's technology solutions across the DACH region and Eastern Europe.
The future might not be a single blockchain-based financial system, but a series of traditional markets that increasingly function as crypto.
iFX EXPO has unveiled the expanded trader-first format for The Trading Festival Mexico 2026, designed to connect brokers and prop firms directly with Mexico's growing retail trading community. Taking place on 12 - 13 November at the World Trade Center Mexico City, the event is expected to welcome more than 3,000...
Warsaw-listed CFD broker XTB confirmed yesterday (Wednesday) that its largest shareholder completed a sale of company stock through an accelerated bookbuilding process, the latest in a series of reductions stretching back three years. XX ZW Investment Group S.A., a Luxembourg-registered investment vehicle majority...
International derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced that its Henry Hub natural gas futures reached a new open interest record of 1,807,497 contracts on September 1, 2026.
Coinbase said Wednesday that it has launched regulated derivatives contracts in Canada, allowing eligible Canadian traders to access the products directly on its platform for the first time. Offered through Coinbase Financial Markets, the exchange said it is the first major crypto-native platform to offer direct...
VIDA Markets has appointed Michael Chen as Head of APAC, giving the FX and CFD broker a dedicated executive for its Asia-Pacific growth strategy. The company said Chen will focus on strengthening VIDA Markets' regional presence, building teams and developing long-term relationships with introducing brokers, affiliates...
Ben Kleimunt spent three years at Sucden as Senior eFX and Precious Metals Sales Trader.
Alpaca has moved index options from paper trading into live trading, giving users access to Cboe-listed contracts including SPX, SPXW, VIX, VIXW, DJX and XSP through its Trading API and dashboard. The launch extends Alpaca's API-first infrastructure into a product set used by fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge...
Montrеal Exchange has launched a "bring a client, get a rebate" style promotion, offering to reduce trading and clearing fees to zero on selected retail options trades. The programme comes with a pricing condition: participating firms must charge retail clients no more than $1 per contract, including execution and...
CFI earlier this year secured a Brazil Central Bank license, to operate as a securities brokerage firm in the country.
Eligible Canadian traders can access regulated derivatives contracts on Coinbase.
XTB shares slipped 5% today (Wednesday) after the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) upheld a PLN 20 million (about $5.35 million) fine. The sanction covers customer checks, product targeting, conflict controls and CFD risk disclosures. Even after Wednesday's decline, XTB was up about 143% this year and only...
Maria Shenouda joined Daman Markets in Dubai in early 2025 as Vice President of Sales, following six years at Forex.com.
Euroclear and HSBC have announced a strategic collaboration to launch AutoFX, a new automated foreign exchange service aimed at helping Euroclear's clients prepare for the move to T+1 settlement across European and UK securities markets. Unveiled on September 1, 2026, from Brussels and London, AutoFX is designed to...
Marex announced the expansion of its Corporate FX business into France on Tuesday, extending institutional-grade foreign exchange risk management solutions to French corporates with exposure to international markets. The move builds on Marex's enhanced Corporate FX capabilities following its acquisition of Hamilton...
RUBIK promoted Bryan Cycman to chief operating officer today (Wednesday) as it moves beyond consulting to run risk desks for prop trading firms. RUBIK says those desks make decisions for clients. That puts an external provider inside decisions that can affect payouts and account access. RUBIK says its work can include...
Euroclear tapped HSBC yesterday (Tuesday) to supply the pricing, conversion and liquidity behind an automated FX service embedded in securities settlement. AutoFX will initially support more than 30 currencies and is due in early 2027, the companies said. Cross-border investors must secure the currency needed to...
Choosing a broker is one of the few decisions a trader makes that affects every trade afterwards. Spreads matter, platforms matter, and execution matters, though all three sit on top of something more basic: whether you know where you stand before you commit any money and whether the company holding your account will...
Born2trade , an international financial brokerage firm, has launched an exclusive promotion for clients holding Dynamic accounts: positive long swaps on Gold (XAU/USD) and Silver (XAG/USD). The promotion also includes zero overnight swaps for the selected US and European Index CFDs. Alongside both offers, the company...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission ( ASIC ) recorded more than 45 applications tied to digital-asset services, it said today (Wednesday). The count has increased by roughly half since ASIC extended its transitional licensing relief. Businesses relying on the regulator's no-action position have until...
Deriv has obtained a banking license from the regulator in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Its CEO, Rakshit Choudhary, highlighted that the move is "part of a broader push" to expand the contracts for differences (CFD) broker's jurisdictional reach globally. The move did not come as a surprise, as Finance Magnates...
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