Capital.com also said that Germany was its second biggest market, although the number of trades was less than half of the UAE total.
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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.
The approval means that Doo Group can begin offering its clients Hong Kong and US equities via its entity regulated in the Chinese city.
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.
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.
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.
We talk to Weems Chan, Global Head of Marketing at ATFX about why the brokerage group decided to drive growth through investment in brand.
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.
Capital.com has made YouTube and TikTok a core part of its strategy. The company has focused on shorter form content with the former.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Plus500 was historically offering services in the UAE via a Category 4 license. It can now provide clients in the UAE with higher leverage.
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.
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.
Andreou was one of several senior executives that left BDSwiss in the last 6 months. He will be based in INGOT Brokers’ Dubai office.
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.
Maggie Lighezzolo oversaw changes to the IG Group website and market research tools, including the integration of tech provider TipRanks.
Brokers that use cTrader can now use the Brokeree product as a plug in and be up and running with copy trading within a few hours.
Aston Martin released a new video, featuring driver Fernando Alonso and Pepperstone branding, to promote the new partnership.
Coinbase has hired a former XTB exec as local CEO. The company appears to be launching perpetual futures trading via its Cypriot entity.
Owen has been Head of Trading for BUX – who APM acquired in July – since 2020. He was previously a senior trader at rival broker Ayondo.
ATFX hit lots of key milestones in 2024, from new licences and offices to record trading volume numbers. We look at 9 key moments for the firm.
MetaQuotes has forced brokers to link their prop arm with the broker arm. Hantec Trader has thus changed the URL for its homepage.
Vladimir Syrov has launched a new brand called Zetradex, alongside a prop firm named Zefundex, and a broker technology provider.
Scope Markets appears to be making more of an effort to expand in Asia. The company has focused heavily on Africa in the last couple of years.
Deriv is already one of the largest broker businesses – by headcount – in the world, with 20 offices globally an more than 1,400 employees.
Swissquote now offers payments, banking, trading, investing, and investment plans all in one mobile application, something many firms want to do.
XTB will sponsor Fury for his fight in Saudi Arabia later this week. XTB has already partnered with a boxing organisation in the UAE.
Vladimir Shmidt is working as Marketing Director at Shares.com – a new brand by Capital.com that is targeting emerging markets.
Turkey has blocked the URLs for several leading crypto and prop trading firms, including HTX, Storm Gain, and BrightFunded.
Michael Healy has been Commercial Director at Ryanair for almost five years. He previously worked with IG CEO Breon Corcoran at Paddy Power.
Demosthenous joined the broker operator in the middle of last year. She has held senior marketing roles at XM, LCG, and easyMarkets.
Onyx Markets is owned by Onyx Capital, an oil broking business. The company has hired execs from several rivals, including IG and CMC Markets.
Brief was with IG Group for almost 25 years and was the company’s Head of UK. Several long-time execs have left over the last 12 months.
Capital.com has owned the Shares.com URL for years. The company seems to be using it now to target faster growing emerging markets.
FundedNext will set up operational hubs for its brokerage offering in Malaysia and Cyprus, with a view to acquiring multiple licenses.
Eryk Kopan will work as Chief Revenue Officer at Finyard. He has held senior sales roles previously at Exness, XTB, and ThinkMarkets.
Vassiliou joins Colmex Pro from FINVASIA, the company that owns Zulutrade and AAAfx. He has held senior roles at other brokers.
Sotiriou was previously at IC Markets for over three years in dealing and risk roles. He joins the firm from liquidity provider 26 Degrees.
Malaysian brokers regularly get raided by police. This time seems more unusual as one local broker was targeted by authorities.
ATFX saw the largest increase in trading volume in indices in Q3. Trading volume also rose across FX pairs, cryptos, and commodities.
Snir Ahiel has launched Fund Your FX. Ahiel was one of the two co-founders of The 5%ers back in 2016. He left the firm in August of 2022.
The Category Five license allows Taurex to market its services in the UAE and introduce new clients to onboard with its other entities.
Panayi joins XTB from Klips, a rival broker, where he was Head of Compliance. Previously he was Head of Legal Compliance at TopFX.
Daman Markets is already sponsoring the Dubai Racing Club. The two partnerships are attempts to grow the new broker’s brand in the UAE.
The new products allow Deriv clients to access different trading strategies in a more simplified form and with less need for trading activity.
FOREX.com ranks highly in Poland for organic searches. The brand is more of a mass market, FX-focused offering for StoneX.
Tickmill is one of several large brokerages looking to target clients in the region. XM and Exness are both seeing success in the country.
NAGA is tapping into growing demand for local stocks in the Gulf region, with several firms now looking to cater to the needs of local traders.
Capital.com has previously focused on a smaller pool of clients. The broker is competing with other firms by doing large scale marketing.
Exante received approvals from the local regulator last month. The company has opened a representative office in the DIFC since then.
Markets.com is the latest in a string of firms to stop onboarding UK retail clients, due to the increasingly high regulatory burden.
Magic Compass is based in Hong Kong and will sponsor the games, which are being held locally. The broker is the event’s main sponsor.
Lightyear was previously operating in the UK via an appointed representative agreement. The broker will launch ISAs next year too.
FTMO has been slowly attempting to expand into the brokerage sector, with ex-FXCM and Skilling executive Michael Kamerman.
IG Group set up Spectrum Markets in 2019, with the firm regulated in Germany as a multilateral trading facility, mainly for trading ETDs.
Revolut was already offering some investment products to UK clients but that was done via an appointed representative agreement.
Pepperstone will sponsor the UFC and become their Official Partner for Asia. The UFC claims to have over 400m fans across the continent.
Gao joins Axi from Pepperstone, where he was also Regional Director. He has two decades of experience and has worked at Exness and GAIN Capital.
Doo Financial has approval from CySEC and the broker also said it has entered the Indonesian market by acquiring a local company.
ACY Securities will acquire INGOT Brokers’ South Africa license. This will require upgrades for the firm to be able to offer CFDs.
The bid probably has two aims – to allow Axi to more easily add stockbroking and, secondly, to acquire a huge number of clients at low cost.
Crypto.com has said it wants to add other investment products over the next 12 months across the US, Australia and the European Union.
FunderPro already has a CFD offering. Several props have added futures, possibly to cater to US clients and also to satisfy client demand.
Monaxa is the latest in a string of brokers to offer prop trading. The company already offers a standard CFD product, as well as copy trading.
Khatib and Melhem were both at amana for a long period of time. The new CFI execs will work in Dubai as CBDO and CMO respectively.
