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 convention...
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...
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...
As India transitions from a high barrier "grey zone" to a regulated financial powerhouse, global FX and CFD leaders are shifting their strategy. This in-depth analysis explores the landmark...
The retail brokerage landscape in Q4 2025 has moved beyond simple growth into a phase of structural mutation. Market incumbents are facing a "Velocity Gap" where high-tech ecosystems like...
APAC still led broker website traffic at the end of 2025, but Europe steadily narrowed the gap, pointing to a more balanced regional distribution of trading interest.
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 Easter...
The CFD
industry finished 2025 strongly, with rising retail activity and active
accounts driven by higher trading volumes, growing interest in metals, and
shifting participation trends, pointing to...
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?
Formula 1’s growing global popularity has reignited interest from various industries, with CFD brokers and crypto firms returning to the sport. A new wave of sponsorship deals is emerging between b...
Identifying where to attract new clients is a major challenge for CFD brokers. Using Finance Magnates’ annual “Heat Map,” this piece highlights global shifts in retail interest in FX/CFD products a...
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are reshaping KYC and AML processes in financial services, delivering significant gains in speed and efficiency for CFD brokers. New AI models claim to red...
Tokenization will disrupt synthetic stock trading. eToro and Robinhood are adapting, but will traditional brokers keep up?
India has emerged as the biggest global source of FX/CFD online interest, driving over half of broker website visits and signaling booming retail curiosity despite lacking CFD regulation and not ye...
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 of...
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 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, surpassin...
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,...
Tokenized stocks represent a fundamental shift in equity access, growing into a $700M market that is doubling annually. They pose a significant threat to CFD brokers by offering synthetic stock exp...