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.
Five named brokers in FM Intelligence's tracker now exceed $1.5 trillion in monthly volume, up from zero in Q1 2025; headline industry active accounts rose to 7.42 million from 5.21 million a year...
The Warsaw-listed broker reported its highest quarterly net profit in disclosed history on commodity volatility, while CFD trading volume fell 8.6% sequentially and gross revenue from index CFDs...
FM Intelligence examines whether Pakistan’s 240-million-strong, median-age-20
population, a stock exchange that crossed 500,000 investors for the first time
in February 2026, a newly formalized virtual...
Top 10 tracked payouts rose 109% year-over-year but edged down 0.1% from Q4 2025, with FundedNext CFDs and MyFunded Futures accounting for 71% of Q1 2026 volume while six smaller firms declined, a...
Between January and April 2026, four MEA
jurisdictions advanced separate digital asset regimes, positioning the region
as a regulatory contender alongside the EU MiCA, the US SEC/CFTC framework, and
APAC...
Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea are simultaneously overhauling their digital asset regulatory
frameworks between April and June 2026, creating the most concentrated period
...
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
...
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...