At
least 10 retail brokers and platform vendors connected AI agents to live client
accounts between January and June 2026. Client funds stayed isolated at every
one. The boundary that separates the...
The first quarter of 2026 delivered a series of landmark developments that reshaped the competitive landscape of the CFD and retail trading industry.
Rather than a passive period of waiting for market recovery, May became a highly active sequence of corporate restructurings, major regulatory developments, and high-profile strategic retreats, all...
IG Group’s strong Q1 2026 results highlight how product expansion, automation, and disciplined marketing execution are reshaping the broker’s growth trajectory. The company’s recent performance als...
While Trustpilot has long served as a vital credibility signal in the online trading industry despite a history of review manipulation, the rise of AI-generated content is forcing the platform into...
The country's 67
BAPPEBTI-supervised futures brokers serve 71,000 active retail customers in a
regime that requires foreign entrants to acquire an existing licensee. XTB,
Plus500, Doo Financial, We...
Hantec Markets Group reported $13.40 million in
monthly volume per active account, D Prime $0.76 million, and the cohort
weighted average reached $4.30 million across 52 brokers tracked by Finance
...
Global platform-visibility rankings mask the regional
fragmentation in retail FX/CFD platform choice. FM Intelligence data covering
Q4 2024 through Q1 2026 shows the shift from MT4 to MT5 is happen...
The industry is setting new records in both trading volume and the number of active accounts. Yet one area remains relatively stable: the distribution of market share among trading platforms.
Q1 2026 broker
data places retail daily turnover at 16.6% of BIS-reported global FX flows, up
1.9 percentage points in a single quarter and running 5.6% above the trajectory
implied by the projecti...
Account growth and per-account activity are both contributing to the expansion in retail FX/CFD trading. The per-account spread across the FM Intelligence cohort runs from $0.67 million to $13.40 m...
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 de...
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 vir...
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 ...
Europe increased its share of global FX/CFD traffic to 43.3% in Q1 2026, up from 40.1% the previous quarter. This growth occurred as other major regions saw slight declines, with APAC dropping to 2...
The latest research from the FINRA Investor Education Foundation provides a timely and data-rich view of one of the most significant shifts in retail investing: the growing influence of social medi...
Professionals in the FX/CFD space often look at highly visible brands and associate that visibility with success. The assumption is simple: if a company is everywhere, they must be doing something ...
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 h...