Author: David Kimberley

The broker is one of several online trading firms to have made a donation to support communities impacted by the devastating wildfires.

Azul Markets has a license in Mauritius and offers MT5. The other co-founders are Andrzej Draniewicz and Paulius Paražinskas.

The Smarter Web Company started operating a ‘Bitcoin treasury strategy’ in 2023, with its shares seeing huge gains this year.

Moneta Markets will use the license to offer both retail and B2B services. The broker is hiring local sales agents, compliance execs, and affiliate partners.

Freedx offers trading in spot crypto and perpetual futures. The company is based in Dubai but has a regulatory license from El Salvador.

BUX will offer investors access to the products as part of its BUX Prime plans, with the funds being managed by JP Morgan.

Goh will work as a Senior Relationship Manager at CMC Markets. The hire may be part of CMC’s plans to expand more in emerging markets.

The FCA, ASIC, and MAS are all aware of prop trading. But can they actually make prop regulations and what will happen if they do?

Coinbase is one of several large crypto firms attempting to make more of a push into the UK on the back of more regulatory certainty.

FundedNext has a new product called Fundee – an AI voice chat that can handle customer service requests.

Scammers dumped shares in Pheton Holdings on Wednesday, pushing the share price down by almost 97%, having risen by almost 1,400%.

Speaking at the broker’s first live earnings event, Robinhood CFO Jason Warnick said that over 2bn contracts have been traded since launch.

Squires will work from ADSS’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi. He was at Saxo Bank UK for just over two years, having joined in May 2023.

Plum used Adclear’s AI-based technology to automatically comply marketing communications.

Capital.com was one of only two financial technology companies to be recognised as a top employer by the Top Employers Institute.

eToro made the announcement of the new products in a live webinar hosted by company Co-Founder and CEO Yoni Assia.

Brokers using DXtrade will now be able to connect to iSAM’s Radar technology – a risk management tool that helps brokers manage risk more efficiently.

El Khoury joins NEO Markets after working in the online trading industry for more than a decade. He’s held roles at ADSS, Axi, and ATFX.

Naker was Head of Technology Risk and Control for the last five years at IG Group. He played a key role in developing the broker’s platform.

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Fortress Core Connect will be able to provide access to liquidity and technology in Europe, via its partnership with ATFX Connect.

Yakout’s appointment is the latest in a series of steps that Scope Markets has taken to enhance its offering for clients in the MENA region.

Hawila has previously held roles at Alpaca, Shares.io, and Blackwell Global. He is one of several broker executives to move to Crypto.com this year.

Capital.com stopped onboarding customers in the UK last year. The broker was one of several targeted by the FCA.

Rostro Group, which owns Scope Markets and Scope Prime, will give the money to local NGOs and authorities via the Rostro Foundation.

The FundedNext payout numbers are hard to understand, based on the other numbers that FundedNext has posted on their own homepage.

We talk to 26 Degrees Chief Commercial Officer James Alexander about extended hours US equities, hedge funds, and handling sharp flow.

ATFX also saw substantial increases in trading volume across foreign exchange, precious metals, and commodities in the second quarter of this year.

The new offering from Rostro Group will mean B2B clients can access crypto pricing and liquidity from a single margin account.

Can other brokers fill the Exness-shaped gap in India? Why are forex brokers targeting India? And is Polymarket just an offshore binaries broker?

Instant Funding is giving away unlimited free $5k challenges until it gets 5,000 funded accounts. Here’s why they’re doing it and how it works.

We talk to Yiota Hadjilouka about her recent promotion, cBots, broker affiliates and what it’s like to build a product for almost 10m traders.

Exness has stopped onboarding clients in India, as well as ceasing any affiliate referrals. The broker has switched existing clients to its Vanuatu entity.

Li previously worked as the Head of Compliance and MLRO for Crypto.com’s UK entity.

Sze worked at Hantec Markets for over seven years, initially in the group’s Hong Kong office and later for the broker’s Australian entity.

Prop firms use a number of different methods to identify copy trading abusers. We look at six of them in this article.

Fortress Core Connect will use Shufti Pro technology to help its white label broker partners complete AML and KYC procedures.

XM has run several big promotions over the last month as part of its 15th anniversary celebrations, including a 100% deposit bonus.

Emerging markets offer lower CACs and better paid ad results for prop firms. But companies must make sure they’ve got the right product before spending.

Hilbert Group is looking to run an active corporate treasury programme for other companies. The goal seems to be to focus on European companies.

Mark Winton sold 18,600 shares in the Israeli broker last Friday, a disclosure published by the London Stock Exchange shows.

True Trading will offer perpetuals, copy trading, and yield products – very similar to those Ben Bilski pushed when oversaw the NAGA Group.

In this guide we look at the question you always want to know – how do prop firms make money? The answer is more complicated than you might expect.

Online trading executive Anet Azrielant has joined brokerage group Prime Capital Markets. Regulated in Mauritius, the brokerage firm received a license from the Mauritian Financial Services Commission early last year. However, the company does not appear to have fully launched yet. Prime Capital Markets looks like it will run two different businesses – a broker operating under the brand 24markets.com and a prop firm called 24funded.com. The brokerage arm is not live yet, but the prop trading arm does seem to be active. Azrielant will be familiar to readers as she has worked in online trading for almost two decades.…

Broker marketing executives face a tough job, with owners and c-level executives usually focused exclusively on short-term results.

Brokers using cTrader and TFT can now access AI tools, IB and affiliate managements systems, and automated client onboarding.

Plus500 will likely recoup its US investment in futures this year. Indian options growth may slow. And the US isn’t looking so bad at the moment?

Hantec Financial operates the group’s brokerage brands. The company has been pushing to expand in ASEAN over the last couple of years.

Nicolo Pagliari worked at Saxo Bank for almost 8 years. He will work for Crypto.com as the firm’s Global VP, Growth and Media.

Rewards, tasks, and other interactive features that Trade Tech Solutions offers can massively boost prop firms revenues.

Funded Unicorn said it blew up from hedging real trades. In reality it could have done rev share or just cut and run with the money.

The same scammers that targeted Ostin Technology last month are now pushing investors to buy shares in Ostin Technology.

Blueberry Funded was launched last year by Aussie broker Blueberry. The payout figure looks real compared to those published by other prop firms.

Alpaca has emerged as one of the main B2B providers in the neobroker and fintech space over the last decade.

ATFX Connect has sponsored the Duke of Edinburgh – a charity gold tournament – for several years now.

Fortress Core Connect provides technology, liquidity and other infrastructure to brokers.

We talk to Sam Eder about his new broker MarketMates, why he started the company, and what it has been like to launch a new broker in 2025.

ActivTrades is the fifth broker that AdClear is working with. The tech firm is already used by brands like Trade Nation, Freetrade, and Plum.

Mirarchi will oversee the expansion of ATFX Connect in Latin America, including rolling out white labels, NDFs, and digital asset trading.

Oliver is the second trading executive to move from Exinity to Rostro Group this year. Rostro operates retail brands FXTM and Nemo.

The new DXtrade mobile app interface gives users a range of new features, including account management tools and watchlists.

FXPrimus is Setting a New Standard for High-Intensity, High-Risk Trading. The broker will offer 2000:1 on its new synthetic indices products.

Albu joined Admirals in 2019 and was an advisor to the board. He has overseen the broker’s Hungarian and Romanian operations since 2021.

Plus500 CFO Elad Even-Chen said earlier this year that he believes ETDs will eventually become 35% of the broker’s overall revenues.

Panbari joins CME Group after almost 14 years at LSEG Data and Analytics. CME is pushing more non-US retail brokers to add ETDs trading.

Alpha Markets is about to launch a new brand Alpha Prime. But is the whole thing actually just a marketing project for YouTube?

TradingPRO launched TradingPLUS several months ago. However, the firm has now left a slow rollout phase and will begin fully-fledged operations from today.

Funded Unicorn said in a statement sent to clients that traders on live accounts caused the firm huge losses that have put it out of business.

Clients at a number of firms, including Trading 212 and AJ Bell, were hit by a widespread pump and dump scheme, targeting Ostin Technology shares.

Maggioni joins Hirose Financial from Finalto, where he spent almost two years as Sales Director. He has also worked at retail brokers, like LCG and ActivTrades.

Simon Halliday brings over three decades of experience to MAS Group, with stints at Nomura, Lehman Brothers, and UBS.

Broker XS launched its office in Kuwait this week, as part of a wider plan to expand in the Middle East region. The company launched the new office in partnership with locally regulated broker NVEST. “Thank God we’ve started in Kuwait and, God willing, we’ll expand across several Arab countries in the Middle East,” said an NVEST representative, speaking to local TV station Al-Sabah. “We’ve set our goals for this and we believe in the importance of Kuwait Vision 2035 within the financial sector.” As that implies, it seems that XS will use its office in the region as part…

Georgiadou will oversee PR and comms at the Scope Markets owner. She joins the firm from Exness, where she spent 6 years as PR Lead.

The new issue of the ATFX Trader Magazine covers global markets, with input from the ATFX analyst team across Europe, APAC, and LATAM.

FXPrimus will launch synthetic indices starting in July, with a phased rollout for its global client base.

Cash appears in a new branded video for the broker. IG Group has been pushing for changes to make investing in stocks more appealing to UK investors.

XM runs multiple brands targeting different jurisdictions and the likelihood is that the firm will add the products for its Trading.com brand.

New research by marketing agency Be Franc shows that almost half of Google searches for trading products are covered by AI overviews.

We speak to the B2BROKER Chief Business Officer about the launch of the tech company’s latest product – Liquidity Provider Turnkey.

Dance is the latest in a series of senior executives to move from the retail broker sector to the cryptocurrency trading industry.

HotCopper is the largest financial news website for active traders in Australia. Stockhouse is a very similar site but is focused on Canada.

The goal of Google and other AI platforms is to reduce click through rates. Broker affiliates rely on these. So are they going to die as a result?

Blueberry has undergone its second major rebrand in the last 12 months, with a new website and brand identity.

Capital.com has already joined CityUK and UK Finance, both of which aim to support the UK’s financial services industry.

Payout ratios can give us some idea of what revenues at prop firms are. We look at how much Alpha Capital, FundedNext, FundingPips and E8 Markets make as a result.

IG Group has put out a four point plan to strengthen the UK stock market, including scrapping cash ISAs and stamp duty on shares.

ATFX Connect was represented by AFTX Australia Country Head Simon Naish and Managing Director of Institutional Business Ivan Wong.

More than 80 senior executives from brokers, prop trading firms, and other financial services businesses attended the event last week.

The new insurance policy means that Capital.com clients trading with the firm’s CySEC entity get added protection up to $1m.

The partnership means brokers and props using DXtrade can easily access EAERA’s leading CRM.

A new study by Ahrefs shows AI visitors have a few undesirable traits, which could also end up impacting broker SEO and affiliate strategies.

Khan joins DB Investing after stints at Shenzou Capital and PMFinancials. She has also run an introducing broker business in the past.

My Crypto Funding has become the latest prop firm to get access to MetaTrader 5. The prop firm set up an entity in St Lucia to get access to the platform.

The Growth 500 lists all UK companies which have a turnover in excess of £3m, regardless of what sector they’re in.

Prop trading firms give traders the opportunity to access funded accounts and trade with much larger sums of money than they could otherwise access.

Not risking more than you can afford to lose is the key to making sure you are profitable over the long term when trading forex.

Moneta Markets will launch a prop trading division soon. The company is also hiring for a general manager for its prop arm in Dubai.

DPFunded offers MetaTrader 4 and 5. It is being offered via Doo Prime’s licensed entity in Vanuatu.

Spotware showcases WebView plugins, cTrader Invite and cTrader Store, and scoops Best Trading Platform Global award at iFX Expo International 2025

Crypto, props, the UK, competition from Dubai, and the ever present paradox that is the online trading industry.