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Weekly Review: AvaTrade and Trade Nation Acquire FXCM; Nasdaq Backs 24/7 Trading
- Trading 212 invested £44 million in overseas subsidiaries in 2025, including £21.1 million in Germany.
- Prop firm Vest Labs raised $13 million in pre-seed funding to expand its trading business.
Saturday, 10/10/2026 | 07:00 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Bullwaves Hires FP Markets’ Former Client Relations Head as COO
- Martin Stoilov spent over three years as FP Markets’ Global Head of CX and Client Relations.
- Recently, Acuity Trading added Bullwaves Prime to its client list before extending the relationship to Bullwaves’ retail brand.
Friday, 09/10/2026 | 12:06 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Moomoo Adds Crossover’s Crypto Execution Network for US Retail Traders
- The firm adds CROSSx execution infrastructure as its US crypto offering expands beyond Coinbase.
- Crossover provides access to liquidity providers, counterparties and smart order matching.
Wednesday, 07/10/2026 | 16:20 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
CFTC Seeks Public Input on Proposed Retail Crypto Regulatory Framework
- The regulator seeks measures to address abusive practices and clarify regulatory requirements for crypto firms.
- The agency previously sought feedback on spot crypto contracts and leveraged retail transactions.
Monday, 05/10/2026 | 17:18 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Match-Trade Adds Retail Traders to MCP After Brokers and Prop Firms
- Traders can query positions, swap costs, portfolio exposure and trading history through natural language.
- The service can identify losing trade patterns and positions without stop-loss orders.
Monday, 05/10/2026 | 14:32 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Weekly Review: MyForexFunds Brand Assets Sold; IG’s OTC Revenue Retention Slips
- The top 1% of winning retail trading accounts captured 66.5% of client profits over the past year.
- The FCA opened a five-month window for crypto firms to apply for UK authorisation ahead of next year’s new framework.
Saturday, 03/10/2026 | 07:00 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Are Finfluencers Becoming an Increasing Blind Spot for Brokers and Banks?
- Sarafina Wolde Gabriel, CEO at Rightlander, highlights the difficulty of detecting potentially non-compliant content across fast-moving social media platforms.
- Seventeen regulators joined the FCA’s Global Action Week targeting non-compliant finfluencers.
Wednesday, 30/09/2026 | 07:45 GMT by
Sarafina Wolde Gabriel
The Broker-Backed Prop Firm: Why Vertical Integration, Not Capital, Is the Real Advantage
- Shervin Arian, CEO of OmegaRatio Advisors, highlights risk literacy as a key gap between smaller prop firms and established brokers entering the same business model.
- Vertical integration can align a prop firm’s revenue with trader activity instead of making successful traders a growing payout cost.
Tuesday, 29/09/2026 | 05:03 GMT by
Shervin Arian
CFD Brokers Run Randoms, but They Can Build Creative Testing Without Chasing Cheap Leads
- Stanislav Galandzovskyi and Maryna Volokhova explain why judging Meta ads by cheap leads can mislead brokers, and how a two-stage testing system can focus spending on creatives that drive deposits.
- Brokers spending $60,000 a month on 50 Meta creatives can miss the ads that drive deposits. A two-gate system helped cut cost per deposit from $433 to $343.
Monday, 28/09/2026 | 04:25 GMT by
Weekly Recap: Inside LCG’s Three-Year Buyout; CMC Markets Plans Prop Trading Launch
- BlackBull Markets has postponed its planned IPO until 2027 as its board focuses on business growth.
- iFOREX reported a $2.5 million first-half loss and plans to cut monthly operating costs by $500K.
Saturday, 26/09/2026 | 07:00 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Public Links Kalshi Prediction Markets to AI Trading Agents
- Agents can respond to FDA approval, rate expectations, and earnings-risk probabilities.
- Recently, Tradeweb integrated Kalshi data into institutional workflows, while ProCap used it with AI agents for research and ideas.
Thursday, 24/09/2026 | 15:15 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Oil Never Sleeps: Can Tokenisation Change How Crude Finds Its Price?
- Demetrios Zamboglou on how tokenisation is transforming price discovery, liquidity and volatility in the world's most high-profile commodity market.
- Tokenised oil could smooth price gaps by enabling 24/7 trading, but it may also amplify sharp moves as speculation and risk spread beyond traditional market hours.
Thursday, 24/09/2026 | 13:00 GMT by
Dr Demetrios Zamboglou
Weekly Review: Trustpilot Flags One in Five Retail Brokers; iFOREX Cuts H1 EBITDA to $1.4m
- In an interview with Finance Magnates, NAGA’s CEO detailed its return to profitability, regional growth and increasing use of AI.
- The US Senate blocked the CLARITY Act in a 50-49 cloture vote.
Saturday, 19/09/2026 | 07:00 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Turkey Detains 175 in Alleged $266m Forex and Crypto Fraud Network
- Turkish authorities said individuals “linked to Israel predominated” in the companies’ ownership structures.
- The investigation remains ongoing as authorities search for other suspects and examine financial flows.
Friday, 18/09/2026 | 14:14 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
The Prop Trading Challenge Pass Means Little Once Real Execution Starts
- Shervin Arian, CEO of OmegaRatio Advisors, highlights the gap between simulated challenge conditions and execution after a trader is funded.
- Prop firms that use different execution models for challenges and funded accounts may underestimate future payout risk.
Wednesday, 16/09/2026 | 12:12 GMT by
Shervin Arian
Interactive Brokers Lets US Investors Move from X Cashtags to Trading
- The feature supports stock and cryptocurrency tickers, including $AAPL and $BTC, with live market data.
- The broker recently added ChatGPT and Grok to its trading platform as external technology integrations expand.
Wednesday, 16/09/2026 | 09:44 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
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