Editor & Business Intelligence Analyst
Damian's adventure with financial markets began at the Cracow University of Economics, where he obtained his MA in finance and accounting. Starting from the retail trader perspective, he collaborated with brokerage houses and financial portals in Poland as an independent editor and content manager. His adventure with Finance Magnates began in 2016, where he is working as a business intelligence analyst.
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?
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...