Lots of Google searching is afoot
Newsletters
The weekly newsletter.
It’s an SEO-friendly, clickbait-y Monday morning
Grifters in hoodies
Plus500 and does NAGA read CFDs Weekly?
Are there alternatives to St Vincent and the Grenadines?
Or how to include software investment as revenue
Why didn’t Saxo SPAC? And Microsoft + the LSE
We take a lighthearted start to 2023 and look at compliance problems
Capital.com removes share dealing and a loophole on ESMA leverage restrictions
Also more hires at Capital.com from IG Group
Will Capital.com run out of people to hire from IG?
The end of crypto and a discussion about prop shops
Also Webull hired another T212 exec and we look at Plus500 shares
Also we look at XTB, Wise and Telegram usernames
MetaQuotes are going after brokers using TradingView
Plus crypto and M&A
Also we look at copy trading
Also we look at Public’s proposed takeover of BUX
Deriv is in Vanuatu
So much choice, so many similarities
Bad vibes
Lots of money, little fanfare
Also we look at eToro’s Gatsby acquisition and FTX PR in CNBC
Or anything?
Plus we look at some start-up shenanigans
Islamic CFD accounts can create problems for brokers
The company continues to have a low valuation despite solid performance
Unregulated entities are finding it much harder to access MT4 and MT5
Or why Robert Tchenguiz is a bad loser
The crypto exchange is hiring lots of people in Cyprus
The saga continues
Also Trading 212 is coming back and equities can be a regulatory arbitrage
Also eToro probably won’t SPAC
Lost in a world of Saxo Bank white labels
Living in a world of infinite leverage
With valuations falling, the company may struggle to hold on to its IPO valuation
And is probably going to ban payment for order flow
There seems to be no point if you can go offshore
The battle for Hong Kong index swaps
Instagram influencers aren’t a great way to do business
And a brief review of Peter Cruddas’s new book
The difference between milk and beef
And why the same market maker might give you a different price to a competitor