Topstep Brokerage is the first introducing broker to allow individual brokerage accounts to be funded through the direct transfer of payouts earned from its retail proprietary trading programs, the company stated.
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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it was likely that consumers experiencing financial difficulties would see the ads and be “vulnerable to the implication that Coinbase and cryptocurrency could address their financial concerns”.
FPFX Tech has acquired BR Management Group LLC, the parent company of BullRush Entertainment, in a move aimed at expanding gamification and competition-based features within its retail prop trading platform.
In a statement today, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission said Gunn accepted it was reasonable to suspect the funds were the proceeds of crime, derived from suspected international scams.
Vantage has become one of the biggest players in the offshore UK brokerage market.
The additional instruments are intended to support portfolio diversification and enable investors to gain exposure to a range of sectors, including clean energy, artificial intelligence, and global commodities.
TTT Markets is the lates prop firm to enter the brokerage space. The brokerage arm is registered in St Lucia.
Mahmoud is one of several new senior hires that IC Markets has made over the last 12 months.
Multi-asset broker INFINOX has reportedly obtained a Category Five licence for Arrangement and Advice from the UAE Capital Market Authority (CMA).
VantoTrade will now operate on a full STP model, routing all trades through to a liquidity provider.
The new contract offers a lower-cost alternative to the existing FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Futures (FKLI) index.
ATFX was awarded the best and most trusted broker in Africa awards by International Investor Magazine.
The Pacific archipelago of Bougainville has now come back on the agenda, thanks to the Bougainville Offshore Financial Authority (bofa).
A source close to the matter told TradeInformer the CFD broker has shuttered its branch in Madrid.
AvaTrade is one of several brokers to cut staff over the last few months, with firms likely being hit by gold trading.
Tradeify is already sponsoring darts world champion Luke Littler.
VT Markets has forecast that the price of gold could rise up to $6000 per ounce this year, as it predicted the US Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by at least 50 basis points.
The most popular prediction market contracts are currently those forecasting the weather – specifically temperature, according to Interactive Brokers (IBKR).
Australia’s corporate regulator has secured the return of almost AUS$40m (US$26m) to more than 38,000 retail investors and prompted wide-ranging compliance changes across the CFD sector following an industry-wide review.
The approval of Fortrade (DIFC) Limited brings the company within the regulatory framework of the Dubai International Financial Centre.
GC Exchange A/S (GCEX) has launched gold futures contracts for difference (CFDs), adding a new instrument to its multi-asset trading range for institutional and professional clients.
Thalji has previously held trading desk roles at SquaredFinancial and Orbex.
Yuh is a banking and investment app that was set up by Swissquote in 2021.
Singh founded Fullerton Markets in 2015. His VC firm has holdings in several brands globally.
Savva joined the Cyprus-based broker from IronFX, where he was most recently Head of Business Development.
FundingTicks was only launched in July of last year by FundingPips.
The agreement brings together one of Colombia’s bighest profile football clubs with the CFD trading platform, which is expanding its presence in Latin America.
Emirates Coin Investment LLC (EmCoin), a virtual asset trading platform licensed by the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA), has…
Global fintech group Capital.com has received regulatory approval to operate as a Dealing Online Foreign Exchange Broker in Kenya.
The broker’s new magazine looks at asset class views across FX, commodities, and indices.
According to an update from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), VM Vita Markets renounced its authorisation with the regulator.
Singh is the second former Valutrades dealing exec to move to Pepperstone in the last few months.
The contract is designed to provide market participants with an additional way to gain exposure to silver with lower capital requirements than larger, traditional contracts.
Kotopoulos joined Bitpanda in April last year, having spent most of his prior career in the iGaming industry.
Capelle joins Trade Nation from outside the trading industry, having previously been CMO of crypto payments firm Wirex.
Petitt recently moved to the Nasdaq-listed financial services group from his role as CEO at Sigma Broking.
OneRoyal has appointed Marilena Iakovou as its new Chief Marketing Officer, effective immediately.
TradersYard has announced the launch of futures-based trading challenges, in an expansion of its retail prop offering.
The number of retail consumers trading complex exchange traded products (ETPs) rose by 23% in the year to July 2025.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned firms to take care over how they assess, market and monitor complex exchange traded products (ETPs) for retail investors.
Plus500 reported its revenue last year grew to around $792m in 2025.This represents a nominal rise of around 3% from the $768.3m in revenue the London-listed broker and fintech posted for 2024.
Almeida joined the firm in September 2024 as Executive Director and Director of Regulatory and Financial Risks.
TP ICAP Group is set to acquire Sydney-headquartered Vantage Capital Markets, a global brokerage firm with operations in London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Dubai.
Blemings joined IG in 2006 and held multiple senior trading roles. He is one of several senior execs to leave in the last 12 months.
Track360, an affiliate management platform for the foreign exchange industry, has agreed a strategic partnership with Monopoly Markets.
Cyprus-headquartered multi-asset broker Triomarkets has launched a retail prop arm, Triofunded. The firm’s website states its funded accounts offer more than 150 trading instruments, including commodities, forex, crypto and indices.
In a sign of continuing convergence between crypto platforms and traditional brokers, Binance has begun to offer perpetual futures contracts on non-digital assets.
The partnership will help ATFX expand its presence in LATAM and the rest of the world.
Binance has announced an update to how its Proof of Reserves (PoR) information is presented across individual digital assets.
A report by the FCA found 21% of traders using multi-product apps end up trading CFDs as well.
O’Sullivan joined the firm in October, prior to which he was Chief Technology Officer at Hantec Markets.
CFI Financial Group has announced a series of in-person seminars scheduled to take place across the Middle East in January 2026.
US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer Alpaca has announced it intends to acquire India-based Zincmoney IFSC Private Limited. The proposed acquisition would give Alpaca access to the latter firm’s India-focused brokerage licences
StoneX Group has received authorisation under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), allowing its digital assets division to expand regulated services across the bloc.
EXANTE brand LHCM says it has “voluntarily” agreed to stop accepting new customers and deposits from existing ones.
Crypto.com originally registered with the Cayman Islands regulator in 2022.
Bitget has opened public access to its TradFi trading suite following the completion of a private beta that drew more than 80,000 users. It allows users to trade assets beyond cryptocurrencies, including gold, foreign exchange, indices, and commodities.
The UK regulator has proposed doing away with its existing quantitative wealth requirement for clients of investment firms to register as professionals.
The campaign, timed to mark the broker’s 15th anniversary, offers a 100% deposit bonus up to $750.
IC Markets trading head Angus Walker said clients going long in gold had driven the highest level of profitability the firm has ever seen.
Harbage and Ward have both held senior positions in the IG premium client sales team.
The CEO and CFO of Plus500 are set to be awarded around $23m worth of shares in the brokerage group later this year, as part of a bonus scheme
A free Forex Sales Specialist Training Program is set to be launched in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in collaboration with FXCAREERS Dubai. The programme is being established and led by Ialit Matta, Chief Operating Officer of forex broker YaMarkets and founder of white-label forex broker firm YaPrime.
The UK financial regulator has warned that trading apps which steer savers towards high-risk products such as CFDs and crypto could breach its Consumer Duty rules.
The approval of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) will enable the firm to shortly launch as a fully standalone regulated brokerage.
IG Group is soon set to give its brand a refresh. The broker sent an email update to customers this morning headlined “New look, same IG”.
The organisers of the London and Dubai Prop Trading Expos have announced Finotive Funding will be the Headline Sponsor for both events, which are scheduled to take place in 2026.
Versus Trade saw huge growth in 2025, powered by its innovative pairs trading products and top class customer service and execution.
Qatar-based GivTrade can now operate in the UAE by introducing clients to its regulated entity in Mauritius.
Behrouz Bayat joined the broker from his role as Chief Information and Technology Officer at Capital.com in September.
IG Group is “progressing well” in its search for a new chair of its board, the company announced in a stock market update this morning.
Coinbase has appointed former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne as chair of its Global Advisory Council.
Deriv has appointed Prakash Bhudia as Chief Growth Officer, a move that follows a year of leadership, regulatory and technology changes at the online trading platform.
Coinbase has announced a broad expansion of its platform, adding stock trading, prediction markets and additional derivatives products.
Robinhood is preparing to roll out personalised sports parlays early next year, branded “combos”, as part of a broader effort to stay competitive with financial technology platforms that have increasingly incorporated betting-style products.
Client demand is driving firms to add futures and options, with brokers also worried about more restrictions on CFD trading.
ATFX Group has received two awards at the FinanceFeeds Awards 2025, recognising its performance in both retail and institutional trading segments. The group was named Broker of the Year, while its institutional arm, ATFX Connect, was recognised as Outstanding FX Liquidity Provider.
SquaredFinanical CEO Philippe Ghanem has also relocated to the US, although he is still involved with the firm.
IG saw a 27% uplift to its OTC trading revenue in the three months to the end of November, with total income of £210.9m from the division.
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Digital prime broker GC Exchange A/S (GCEX) has received a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license from the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA). The new license allows the firm to provide regulated crypto-asset services to institutional and professional clients across the European Union.
The new feature allows cryptousers to access foreign exchange, metals, commodities, indices, and stock contracts for difference (CFDs) using the USDT stablecoin (Tether) as margin. The beta is available to a limited group of selected users.
MyFundedFutures (MMFU) is seeking to register as an Introducing Broker with US regulators and build its own proprietary futures trading platform.
Plus500 is listed as a member of ICDX and has approvals from local regulator Bappebti.
The new copy trading system is now live and accessible through the Amillex trading platform.
Deriv has expanded its stock CFDs on the MT5 platform, adding 400 global equities for regular-session trading and introducing extended hours trading on 21 major US stocks.
Retail prop firm E8 Markets has ditched activation fees on all its programs, including futures accounts, making them one-time fee only.
Gemini Co-Founder Tyler Winklevoss said it has taken the crypto exchange five years to get approval from the CFTC.
MyForexFunds, which closed down after attracting the attention of the US CFTC, has officially announced it plans to make a comeback.
Traders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region deposit over $1m in their accounts ten times as often as Europeans do, according to Capital.com
Retail brokerage Olymptrade has claimed to have more than 127m users in a new post on X.
The prop firm will offer traders a monthly salary if they stay ahead of certain monthly drawdown limits.
Pepperstone has secured the necessary permission to market and promote its brand in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Latocha was at IG for almost five years and will also join the board of OANDA’s Polish entity.
IC has struck a marketing partnership with the MoneyGram Haas F1 Team to become the latter’s Official FX Trading Partner.
Türkiye-based digital asset platform Paribu has acquired middle eastern rival CoinMENA in a deal valuing the latter at up to $240m.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has imposed an interim stop order preventing Stratos Trading Pty Limited, trading as FXCM, from issuing CFDs to retail clients
Kalshi data will now appear on CNBC’s shows, with Kalshi also hosting a CNBC-branded page on its website.
Eugene Investment & Futures has teamed up with global trading-technology developer Devexperts to introduce advanced options trading tools to South Korean retail investors.
AJ Bell plans to launch a new app within the next 15 months, the group’s chief executive Michael Summersgill has revealed.