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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?
Tokenization will disrupt synthetic stock trading. eToro and Robinhood are adapting, but will traditional brokers keep up?
UBS subsidiary Credit Suisse Life Bermuda lost its final appeal before the Privy Council in London against a $600 million plus fraud damages award to Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. The...
The
European Union’s overhaul of its financial markets framework under the MiFID
II/MiFIR Review has now taken effect. As of 29 September 2025, all Member
States were required to transpose the revised...
eToro expanded its services in the UAE, allowing users to deposit nine cryptocurrencies into their eToro Crypto Wallet and convert them to US dollars for trading. To drive this feature, eToro is...
DMM.com Securities dominated the 2024 global retail FX volume rankings, averaging $1.488 trillion monthly and surpassing $2 trillion in peak months. Japan remains a crucial global FX hub, seeing a...
The AI revolution is undeniable, but it’s time to recognize the boundaries of what current models can truly deliver without real data access. The lesson for business is clear: without proprietary...
The competition between MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5) has reached a turning point, with MT5 now commanding 62% of retail CFD trading volume on MetaQuotes platforms in Q3 2025, surpassing...
The updated MiFID II/MiFIR reforms introduce several key changes for EU brokers, including the abolition of PFOF, simplification of Best Execution reporting (RTS 27/28 reports removed), and the future...
For forex and CFD firms, the primary cost of operating in Cyprus is not the license or office, but talent retention. Executives command the highest salaries, with CEOs averaging approximately €192,500...