FTMO probably bought OANDA on the cheap. But will the deal work out for the firm or will it struggle to grow revenues?
Author: David Kimberley
Trade Nation is the first CFD provider that Adclear is working with. The tech firm already works with fintechs Freetrade and Plum.
Devexperts said the new platform was launched in response to growing demand for access to futures among retail traders.
Coinbase employs more then 200 people in the UK, which is its second-biggest source of web traffic.
Dalley has been Head of Netherlands for Cboe over the last two years. He has been with the firm since 2017, after it acquired BATS Global Markets.
Integral said that Access Bank will use its technology to white label its FX trading offering to sub-brands and partners in the region.
OANDA owner CVC Capital has been looking to sell for some time now. FTMO say the broker will continue to operate as a separate business.
Kraken is likely to offer perpetual futures using the CySEC-regulated entity, with a local employee acting as product lead for the derivatives.
The contest – called The Leap – can be accessed by traders globally and has a prize pool, backed by CME Group, of $25,000.
We talk to SALVUS Funds Managing Director Nikolas Xenofontos about what the changes in the Seychelles mean for brokers and why they were made.
AvaFutures has been targeting Spain, reflecting the country’s heavy restrictions on offering CFDs to retail clients. Is that the future for brokers?
Zelek joined the firm in December. RoboMarkets announced it would be exiting the retail CFDs space in the EU last year.
Swissquote generated 26% of its total revenues from B2B operations, although most of that likely came from other retail brokers.
Exness is hiring for a new Product Manager role in its Cyprus office. The main product will be an AI-based chatbot that does customer support functions.
CME Group said the new micro futures contracts will be one-tenth the size of their existing counterparts and be cash settled.
XTB continues to onboard large numbers of clients, seemingly by using more vanilla products – like equities and ETFs – for marketing.
Brokers want to separate their prop arms, probably for regulatory reasons. But MetaQuotes wants them to be linked together. A conundrum.
Kama Capital was previously operating under a Category 5 license, which allowed it to introduce clients to one of its other entities.
The International Trading Institute will offer an 18-month, master’s style programme to applicants, with teachers from investment banks.
Capital.com also said that Germany was its second biggest market, although the number of trades was less than half of the UAE total.
Christou joins the firm from rival company Exinity. Charalambous has also held senior roles at leading firms, like eToro and Binance.
Traders that deposit $1,000 with amana and make 10 trades before the end of the campaign date will get a 1-carat diamond from ZS Jewelry.
Revolut has been adding an average of 160,000 accounts per month in Italy, with the goal of hitting more than 4m total users in 2025.
Taurex will integrate Trading Bull’s technology into its trading app in the first half of the year.
The partnership with Devexperts means that Blueberry Markets retail and institutional clients will be able to trade with the firm.
The trading news provider said it spent several months doing user research to determine what FXStreet readers wanted from the site.
Tsirpi joins TopFX from rival brand HFM. He was with HFM for almost four years, working as Regional Head of Business Development.
ActivTrades is one of the only players left that’s still targeting clients in the UK. The broker also has a large set of clients in Brazil.
Hantec Markets will be Official Trading Partner for LATAM. This marks the first time the broker has sponsored a football team.
BitPanda is the first major cryptocurrency exchange operator to receive the license from the German regulator.
Onyx Markets is backed by Onyx Capital, an oil brokering business. The new broker is offering retail clients FX and oil contracts trading.
ATFX was the Platinum Sponsor of the Icebreakers Chinese New Year event, which is organised by several UK-China relations organisations.
We look at four facts from the IG Group H1 results, including crypto products, options trading, and the recent Freetrade acquisition.
The approval means that Doo Group can begin offering its clients Hong Kong and US equities via its entity regulated in the Chinese city.
Challenging challenge conditions produce randomness, making it harder to know who is a sharp trader and who is not, meaning hedging is tricky.
Trading 212 saw the highest growth level of MUVs for any finance company, when you look at growth across both web usage and app downloads.
Knapp will continue in his role as Chief Risk Officer at Rostro Group, which owns Scope Markets. He will help role out options and futures for clients.
Lightyear will offer clients in the UK both stocks and shares ISAs and Cash ISAs, allowing them to invest in a more tax-efficient manner.
It’s plausible investors were expecting better earnings from the deal CMC Markets formed with Revolut, as well as higher Q4 volatility.
IG Group saw higher revenue in the half year period, despite a slight drop in the number of active clients in its CFD and spread betting business.
Lahkwani has previously held sales roles at CPT Markets, IG Group, and CAPEX.com. He was also Head of Sales for the MENA region at Axi.
We speak to cTrader CEO Ilia Iarovitcyn about cTrader 5.0, its new features, and how Spotware thinks about adding new products and services.
Anucauskas joins Markets.com from easyMarkets, where he spent just under two years. Previously he worked at JFD Brokers for five years.
BUX clients can invest in the ETFs via one of the broker’s investment plans. The broker will also provide educational content to clients.
iSAM Securities has recently started acting as market maker and has launched several new products, including swaps on indices.
We talk to Weems Chan, Global Head of Marketing at ATFX about why the brokerage group decided to drive growth through investment in brand.
XTX Markets Chief Technology Officer Joshua Leahy said the investment would mean the market maker can “build ahead of its needs.”
Nasos Topakas has a wealth of experience, having worked in San Francisco for over two decades, including long stints as CTO at leading firms.
Deriv said that its teams across compliance, marketing, and engineering are already regularly using AI to boost productivity.
Plus500 is providing synthetic execution to Topstep via its US-regulated entity. The company can also be used to trade Topstep’s live accounts.
Sky Links Capital was launched last year by Daniel Takieddine. The broker offers trading in CFDs and futures, with a license in Mauritius.
In response to its growth mandate, the Financial Conduct Authority has said firms don’t need an internal ‘Consumer Duty Board Champion’.
Capital.com has made YouTube and TikTok a core part of its strategy. The company has focused on shorter form content with the former.
Spotware celebrates a successful iFX Expo Dubai 2025, highlighted by winning the prestigious UF AWARDS MEA 2025 for Best Trading Platform MEA
Vincent Germyns has been CEO for the Saxo Bank Mid-European Hub since 2019, the same year the company acquired BinckBank.
eToro added the meme coin to its platform in response to customer demand. The Trump coin soared over the weekend but has since crashed.
Skianis was most recently at IC Markets, where he was Head of Partners. He has also worked at M4Markets, IronFX, and HF Markets.
Gary Stevenson’s claims point to a wider set of stereotypes about what it means to be a trader. But do traders even exist?
The Seychelles Financial Services Authority has given CFD brokers until mid-2026 to make the necessary changes and stay compliant.
Swissquote said the 23% uplift to total revenues were in part due to an increase in crypto trading which took place at the end of the year.
eToro has been trying to go public for years. Its most recent attempt to list via a SPAC in 2021 saw the firm valued at more than $10bn.
ATFX Connect was the Diamond Sponsor at the iFX Expo in Dubai this week, with a number of senior executives attending the event.
Kudotrade was launched earlier this year and was originally based in St Lucia. The broker has employees in Cyprus, the UK, and Dubai.
Revolut has sponsored football teams before, including Danish club FC Copenhagen, but this is the first women’s team.
Lots of brokers are starting to offer prop trading. But will they be able to compete with pure play prop trading firms?
Despite a still low valuation, Plus500 has delivered total returns in excess of 5,000% since going public on the London Stock Exchange in 2013.
Freetrade was one of the first companies to come to market in the UK with a simple app and no dealing fee offering for retail investors.
The crypto exchange also said that options volumes totalled $140bn for the year and that Nitro Spreads volumes rose more than seven-fold.
Police in the Southeast Asian country have also said that they will look to ban prediction markets website Polymarket.
FP Markets is not the only firm using the technology. Rival brand YaMarkets has also started using TradeMedic, but as a white label.
Humphreys previously worked alongside Deus X Markets CEO Tim Plummer at Capital.com. He joins the firm from Onyx Markets.
Robinhood breached more than 10 SEC rules over the course of several years. One incident impacted the private data of millions of customers.
Plus500 held a seminar over the weekend, with more than 300 local traders attending. The broker held the event with several local educators.
Equiti Wealth has received approval to offer a fund called ‘Equiti Global Balanced Fund’ from the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority.
Horacek joined IG Group at the start of the pandemic in 2020, initially as Head of Poland. He went on to lead the firm’s India and SA offices too.
Swissquote smashed it after Trump’s election – just one sign that investing in brand marketing is worth it for online trading firms.
Popivoda joins Centroid Solutions from rival firm PrimeXM, where he worked for over seven years and was Global Head of Relationship Management.
Capital.com said it saw a 20% increase in the number of trades placed in 2024 as well, with most volume coming from MENA and Europe.
Trading 212 acquired FXFlat in August of 2024. The new offering is likely designed for branding and to help smooth out its Invest product.
Exness is getting huge amounts of traffic from India. We look at how Exness is so big in India and the methods they used to achieve that.
Plus500 was historically offering services in the UAE via a Category 4 license. It can now provide clients in the UAE with higher leverage.
Deus X Markets will provide a ‘brokerage as a service’ offering, providing everything a company needs to start a brokerage business.
Yavuz Karadeniz was with My Forex Funds for over three years, initially as a customer support specialist and ultimately as a director at the firm.
We talk to Anton Sokolov from Brokeree about how brokers and other firms can make the most out of adding copy trading as a product.
Capital.com is in the process of expanding substantially. The company is hiring upwards of 300 new employees in technology roles.
ATFX has changed its tagline for the new year. But what does it actually mean and what does the broker have planned for 2025?
Century Financial tends to sponsor higher end events for marketing purposes. The firm is one of the oldest brokers in the UAE.
moomoo clients who sign up to Seeking Alpha’s Alpha Picks service will be eligible for $250 in account credit.
TIOmarkets is operated by Malaysian businessman Manmohan Singh. The company is targeting clients in Asia and Latin America.
Popivoda has been with PrimeXM since 2018. He previously worked for now-defunct brokerage firm 24Option in a sales role.
Spotware will be at iFX EXPO Dubai 2025, the world’s largest FX/CFDtrading event, from January 14-16 at the Dubai World Trade Center.
Prop regulations will kill the industry, not make it better. If we do need regulations, wouldn’t it be better if they were under gaming rules?
Andreou was one of several senior executives that left BDSwiss in the last 6 months. He will be based in INGOT Brokers’ Dubai office.
HiddenRoad is one of the first firms to have received approval from the Dutch regulator for the license, which came into play this year.
Twort has been with iSAM for a decade, having helped launch its prime broker division. More recently he’s worked on the firm’s funds.
Brokers using Devexa can now access different buttons and rich content sharing capabilities to improve different client interactions.
Sim joins MH Markets as Director of Global Sales. He has spent the bulk of his career working with Fullerton Markets Founder Mario Singh.
ATFX now has analysts from across the globe, covering the broker’s key markets. Heres what they think traders should look out for in 2025.
Maggie Lighezzolo oversaw changes to the IG Group website and market research tools, including the integration of tech provider TipRanks.
The FCA’s recent ‘Dear CEO’ letter got some negative feedback from industry execs. But does the regulator really want to kill CFDs?