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Finance Magnates Intelligence spoke with Nick Twidale, the Chief Market Analyst at ATFX, to understand better how current tensions in the Middle East influence operations of ATFX Connect. Twidale...
Finance Magnates
Intelligence analysis of 52 brokers shows total monthly trading volume rose
173% between Q4 2021 and Q4 2025, yet the five largest brokers by volume held a
near-identical 38% combined...
Achraf Drid, Branch Director of XTB MENA, outlines the firm's stance on its Gulf expansion following regional turbulence in early 2026, addressing risk management during the UAE market closure,...
Finance Magnates Intelligence
analysis of XTB Group's 2019-2025 consolidated results reveals a broker in
mid-transformation, from a high-margin CFD operator to a mass-market investment
platform where...
Global online interest in FX/CFD brokers fell in February, down from a cyclical high of in January, as macro-driven search demand normalized across all major regions. Year-over-year growth of 33.5%...
New incident and third-party reporting requirements, confirmed today, land on top of Consumer Duty enforcement, client categorisation reform, and an escalating finfluencer crackdown. FM...
ESMA's February 2026 public statement classified perpetual futures as contracts for difference under existing EU law, applying 2:1 leverage caps and the full CFD compliance framework to a product...
The $400 billion industry disrupts finance on every front - except the one that matters most to half its potential workforce. FMIntelligence data shows female founders are more capital-efficient...
Retail traders now generate over $1.3 trillion in daily CFD volume, equivalent to 14% of the entire global FX market, up from just 2.7% five years ago. FMIntel new metric, the Retail Intensity Ratio,...
SEBI's 20-month crackdown offers preview of data-driven enforcement coming to Western markets. Major brokers already exited India as 91% loss rate prompts unprecedented intervention with...
Finance Magnates Intelligence conducted an analysis of 47 retail forex and CFD brokers, revealing a visible disconnect between organic web traffic and actual trading volumes, challenging conventional...
MetaTrader 5 captured the majority of CFD trading volume throughout 2025, though the broader platform user landscape tells a more complex story about competitive dynamics, according to Finance...
Australia's financial regulator uncovered widespread rule-breaking across its entire CFD industry.
A conversation with Arkadiusz Jóźwiak, Market Analyst and Editor-in-Chief at Comparic.pl, on why the days of CFD-only brokers may be numbered, what today's investors really want, and whether the...
An analysis of five years of FCA enforcement actions reveals a systemic blind spot. Financial institutions keep getting fined not for lacking compliance frameworks, but for failing to verify, update,...
The Financial Conduct Authority is pushing for unified risk-based regulation across all speculative products, with the March 6, 2026 consultation deadline fast approaching.
CySEC's 2026 fee overhaul - if in force - might increase CFD broker compliance costs by 60-128% across licensing, supervision, and regulatory categories, with typical operators facing...
Forex trading collapsed from 58% to 14% market share between 2020-2025 while CFDs surged to 86%, and mobile platforms now dominate with 65% of all trades.
Five firms crossed the trillion-dollar threshold in Q4 2025 as the retail trading industry underwent a fundamental shift toward mobile platforms and alternative assets. Moreover, Middle Eastern...
Did Cyprus's financial regulator just hand the CFD industry another reason to the
dissatisfaction that is reportedly being heard more loudly on the streets of
Limassol?