Author: David Kimberley

Devexperts says the new tool can help improve retention, with customer lifespan only three months and conversion rates at just 20%.

Mauritius has emerged as one of the main hubs for brokers to start a firm, providing better access to banking than other jurisdictions.

Paytiko CPO Milen Marinov says his firm is working with more than 700 props and can still get props access to UAE payment solutions.

ATFX has built a strong presence across the Middle East over the last five years, particularly in Jordan and the UAE.

Robinhood already offers access to options and margin trading on stocks to UK customers.

The class action lawsuit against IC Markets in Australia is a sign of how anti-risk regulators have become and what chancers some retail clients are.

ATFX has raised money for Breast Cancer Now as part of a wider initiative to raise awareness about breast cancer.

Jay and Dinu worked together at M4Markets. Their new project gives cash back to traders that sign up to brokers via their website.

Eightcap won the award after investing a huge amount in the development of its partners programme over the last 12 months.

The Indian market has come under more scrutiny because of incidents involving a number of large brokers in the last couple of months.

We talk to Hantec Prime CEO Michael Nichols about how brokers can make the most money out of their relationship with their liquidity provider.

Spotware, developer of the cTrader platform, partners with UK-based prop firm OneFunded to provide traders with flexible funding, transparent trading, and professional tools through the cTrader ecosystem.

Trading 212 acquired FXFlat last year. The broker does not offer MT4, a platform that CMC Markets began offering in 2018.

ATFX Connect has been one of the main sponsors of the Duke of Edinburgh Cup over the last five years.

Behl joins Scope Prime after a short career break. He has worked in the past as a trader at 26 Degrees and prop firm Akuna Capital.

Spotware introduces Free Prop Trial Accounts in cTrader – a new way for proprietary trading firms to run branded free trials and competitions. Engage traders, boost conversions and showcase the full cTrader experience across web, desktop and mobile.

TopStep was already working with Plus500. This appears to be an extension of the two firms’ existing partnership.

Talks on the merger purportedly fell apart after IG and Kraken could not come to an agreement on what to do with tastytrade.

A statement put out by India’s Enforcement Directorate about Octa appears to refer to an incident which took place three months ago.

Prop firms can use FX-Edge to manage risk in funded accounts. We talk to Match-Trade CEO Michael Karczewski to find out how.

Georgouras is one of several senior hires that B2PRIME has made in the last 12 months, particularly in its London office.

Capital.com is hiring for a CEO in Turkey. the country is a big market for brokers. However, most trading takes place offshore.

Plus500 made 15% of its revenues from its US business in Q3 2025. The growth in the business may end up being the big driver for the business going forward.

Konstantinidi joins the Pepperstone London office from rival brand Exinity, which operates brokers Alpari and FXTM.

CFI recently lost its license in Oman. The broker is not able to act as an OTC provider for CFDs in Bahrain.

Larry Fink says he believes in Tokenisation. We think he just sees a new method of marketing BlackRock products via regulatory arbitrage.

Massey joins MultiBank after a short career break. Most recently he held senior roles at Capital.com, where he spent just over three years.

PropFunding.com lets you take free challenges and only pay if you pass. We spoke to CEO Shaun Opoku to find out how the prop firm works.

Rosewell joined Eightcap in 2019 as Chief Marketing Officer. He has previously held marketing roles at IG Group, LCG, and ETX Capital.

Rostro – which operates Scope Markets and Scope Prime – has brought in Kate Mason-Keaney as Chief People & Organisation Officer.

Kraken paid $100m to buy Small Exchange from IG Group. It is hard to see them using it for anything but perpetual futures and – potentially – event contracts.

XM recently reached 15 years in business and the broker has celebrated the occasion with a $35,000 deposit bonus – its biggest on record.

Hantec Markets said the results came on the back of heavy investment in product, people, and partnerships over the course of the last year.

StriveFX has expanded its platform suite with cTrader, Spotware’s award-winning multi-asset trading platform. Designed for traders of all levels, cTrader brings transparency, speed and accessibility with free cloud execution, advanced order protection and thousands of trading robots and indicators from the cTrader Store.

Wise now has more than 70 global licenses. The payments company facilitates 10% of all currency transfers to individuals in India.

Brokers using Match2Pay can now easily get access to fiat currencies, with the company offering instant conversions to brokers taking deposits in crypto.

The liquidity provider picked up the award in NYC last week. Scope Prime now deals with a range of clients, including hedge funds and smaller banks.

Jonthan Bar-Sela has been working for Tickmill since at least April of this year. He has 20 years of experience in technology roles.

ATFX recently acquired a license in Cambodia. We caught up with the team to find out what their plans are for the ASEAN country.

Spotware presents major innovations of cTrader at iFX Expo Asia 2025 in Hong Kong — including native Python support, Free Cloud Execution, the expanding cTrader Store marketplace, and the rebranded cTrader Admin 9.8

Begu is now the seventh senior executive to have joined Fintrix Markets who has prior experience at Pepperstone.

Jarabakova spent the last year forming partnerships to market CME Group’s products to retail traders, including one with TradingView.

Bybit said it plans on making the UAE a regional operations hub, with more than 500 employees across offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

cTrader Mobile has been awarded “Best Trading App 2025” at Forex Expo Dubai, recognising its innovation, transparency, and premium mobile trading experience with free cloud algo execution and access to thousands of trading robots and indicators.

The deal, which is still subject to regulatory approval, would mean that the INFINOX group of companies runs at least four retail brokers.

Webull UK will start offering access to London-listed equities and ETFs, different account types, as well as reducing commissions on US stocks.

Sharpe has been with Trade Nation for almost three years and has worked in the online trading industry for close to 30 years.

Skilling was set up close to a decade ago by iGaming execs from Sweden and Norway. The investors behind the takeover now operate three broker brands.

Over 1,300 attendees played Taurex’s Spin the Wheel game at the Expo, which took place in Dubai this week.

Nahas joined Zarvista just over two years ago. He also runs a consulting firm called 357, which is based in Cyprus.

Sermaxhaj is the second executive with a background in the online trading industry to join Integral in the last month.

We talk to Investa Co-Founder and CEO Alec Beasly about building an easy to use options trading platform for customers in the UK and Europe.

Al-Janabi worked with Monaxa CEO Chris Trikomitis at FXPRIMUS. He joins Monaxa from TopFX, where he spent over four years.

MyForexFunds posted on X for the first time in over two years on Monday afternoon. The prop firm survived a CFTC legal case this year.

14 XM partners won $500,000, with the top 3 prizes totalling $250,000.

Capital.com has about 200 clients with over $1m in the Middle East. But can you only get those customers or do you need a lot of small fry to find them.

Brown is one of several senior execs to join B2PRIME over the last 12 months. He has spent the last two and a half years at rival liquidity provider iSAM.

Wale is the third senior hire that B2PRIME has made in London as part of a wider push to expand its team in the UK.

Ismailoglu will work closely with the broker’s founder Mithilesh Fichadia. Tattvam Markets has licenses in the UAE and Mauritius.

Match-Trader has sponsored Bartosz Osatlowski as part of a wider brand building campaign

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Scope Prime has integrated with a prime broker network, meaning it can pass superior pricing and execution on to its client base.

Spanos joins Fintrix Markets from GO Markets, where he was Head of Risk and Product. He has also worked at IG, CMC Markets, and Pepperstone.

By setting extremely high per contract liquidation fees, a futures broker could earn over 75% of a client’s deposit by autoliquidating them.

Kukhtikov was most recently at LP Prime, whose co-founder left the firm at around the same time. He also spent seven years at B2BROKER.

Marius Grobler worked with Trive for over three years, helping to set up their operations in Mauritius and South Africa in that time.

The unique solution allows Match-Trader prop firms to outsource risk management – including dealing with scammers – to FX-Edge.

The broker is one of only a small number of brokerages to have acquired a Category 1 license in the Gulf state.

Alves worked on expanding Deriv’s presence in LATAM and Africa, with the broker proving extremely popular in the latter region.

Called HawkEye, the new technology lets brokers manage their risk by identifying fraudulent activity across their platforms.

Patchay has been working with Trade Nation for over five years. Traze is operated by the larger Zeal group of companies.

Pepperstone will use Swiset’s technology to offer branded trading contests to clients globally.

Blueberry partners with cTrader, bringing traders a powerful, transparent and flexible platform with advanced tools and full support for manual and algo trading

Hirji has also held senior positions at Saxo Bank and MoonPay. oneZero has said he will help support the tech firm’s next growth stage.

Speaking at an event hosted by GBG, Dani Magner also noted that Japan has been a tougher market for the broker to perform e-KYC.

We talk to Muhammad Rasoul about what amana has done and why, in one of the world’s most competitive markets for the broker industry.

UK customers at Capital.com had the highest average deposits with the broker globally.

Forex Expo Dubai is taking place next week. Here’s how you and your team can win big on the day.

We headed to the London Prop Trading Expo and saw incognito brokers, roadman traders, lots of talk of regulation and MetaQuotes bitterness.

EC Markets is expanding across the UK, Latin America, and Middle East. Qumuq has previously worked at Doo Prime, Startrader, and Multibank.

Thomas worked with GCEX Founder Lars Holst when he was at Saxo Bank. He also spent almost two decades at Hotspot FX.

Zoumidou worked for IG for over a decade and was most recently Global CEO and Capital.com. Perpetuals.com runs an MTF for perpetual futures trading.

We take a look at what challenges prop traders are buying across the world and what prop firms can do to take advantage of it.

The new product from iSAM – called Surge – lets brokers automate trade execution settings and analyse client and LP performance.

Traders using Alchemy Markets’ prop trading product will get access to the DXtrade platform.

DXwallet will let brokers using Devexperts technology the ability to add crypto products and services to their platform.

GlobalBlock is profitable and has over $60m in AUM. GCEX says the acquisition will expand its client base in the HNWI sector.

Howard joined Eightcap as CEO in January 2023. He has worked in the online trading industry for two decades, with prior stints at IG and StoneX.

Cadavid was previously Commercial Director for LATAM at Eightcap. He has worked in the online trading industry for two decades.

Hadjikyriacos moves to IC Markets after six years at IG Group. The London-listed firm is winding down its operations in Cyprus.

We talk to Angelo Pieries from Taurex Prime about the liquidity provider’s rebrand from Zenfinex, who they are serving, and what clients want.

Spotware at Forex Expo Dubai 2025 – booth 80, Oct 6–7. Discover cTrader 5.4 with Python support, cTrader Admin, and cTrader Store.

IG only launched futures and options about 12 months ago. Its probable most customers just want to trade on an OTC basis.

Ahead of the London Prop Trading Expo, we spoke to Gold-i Founder and CEO Tom Higgins about what you need to make your prop firm a success.

Selby joins Taurex from rival brand SquaredFinancial. He was worked in the online trading industry for close to two decades.

All clients using a Fortress Core white label will have TradeLocker as their front-end interface.

Azzam has worked in FX and trading tech sales for over a decade. Alongside roles at LSEG and FXCM, he also worked at Banque BEMO.

CFI had its Oman license revoked on September 18th. The FSA said the broker had marketed non-Omani securities and breached AML regulations.

Argamon will be able to distribute its liquidity to brokers and other financial institutions using Centroid’s bridging technology.

Cooper has been with Axi for close to a decade. He was part of the team that undertook a management buy out at the broker in 2022.