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Intelligence examines how Interactive Brokers Group's Q2 2026 growth shifted
from trading activity toward balance-sheet expansion, why net interest margin
has fallen year-over-year for six conse...
FM Intelligence
data puts monthly retail FX and other volume at $30.4 trillion in Q2 2026,
within 1.4% of a year earlier, with EC Markets replacing TMGM and IC Markets at
the top of the ranking.
While the eyes of the world are fixed on the pitches of the USA for the FIFA World Cup, veteran sports marketer Stephen Pearson pulls back the curtain on how brokers can turn the tournament's...
Despite Bitcoin declining 14% in Q2 2026, the digital asset industry matured rapidly through landmark regulatory progress like the U.S. CLARITY Act and major exchanges expanding into multi-asset br...
Europe solidified its dominance in global FX and CFD broker interest during the second quarter, widening its lead as shifting macroeconomic trends caused APAC’s market share to decline.
A
broker's smartwatch launch reopens a question the industry first tested in
2015: whether always-on price alerts are a monitoring convenience or a channel
that lifts trading frequency.
June trading data from the largest US listed brokers shows retail activity accelerating into quarter-end, with the gains concentrated in options and event contracts rather than digital assets.
A regulator
reviewing a brokerage sector that added 23 firms since 2022 found that 18% of
surveyed DIFC firms operate without a documented personal-account-dealing
policy and 32% keep no dealing re...
CMC Markets’ strong FY 2026 results highlight how institutional scale, decentralized regional decision-making, and deep API integration are reshaping the broker’s growth strategy.
Poland added a
record 713,711 brokerage accounts in the year to May 2026. This is what entry
costs, where to base an operation, who already holds the clients, and what the
regulator expects.
FM Intelligence
visibility data for April and May 2026 shows the retail broker ranking order
intact month over month, with the share of tracked visits captured by the ten
highest-visibility brokers...
A sustained decrease in trading interest has reduced crypto CFDs to a mere 1.3% of global brokerage volumes by early 2026, prompting the question: do these digital assets actually generate meaningf...
The company behind cTrader is selling brokers a liquidity bridge and an AI gateway, and taking aim at how rivals charge for them. "This is basic functionality, and charging brokers extra for it...
Designed to protect retail investors, Negative Balance Protection (NBP) has become a heavily exploited loophole. Some traders are using extreme leverage right before major economic news to capture ...
AvaTrade
has bid for the broker and an unnamed crypto exchange is weighing an offer of
its own, two people familiar with the matter said, for an asset whose value
rests on five regulatory licenses ...
An analysis of 1,468 retail FX and CFD complaints adjudicated by the Financial Commission in 2025, and what their outcomes show about accountability on both sides of the trade.
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...