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XTB Launches AI Analytical Chat Powered by LSEG and Reuters Data

  • Chile is the first stop in a rollout XTB plans to extend to markets outside Europe before deciding on Poland.
  • The retail trading industry is increasingly adopting AI tools, including for trade execution.
Monday, 20/07/2026 | 13:33 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Institutional FX

Broker Research Licensing Emerges as AI’s Biggest Buy-Side Bottleneck

  • 77% of large asset managers have already deployed generative AI across their organisations, but broker research licensing has become the biggest obstacle to expanding AI workflows
  • Buy-side firms rank broker research above earnings transcripts and market data as the content they most want to integrate into internal AI systems.
Thursday, 16/07/2026 | 17:00 GMT by Tanya Chepkova
Retail FX

AI Wave Reaches Prop Firms as FundedNext Launches MCP Server

  • Unlike some broker implementations, the integration is read-only, preventing AI from executing trades.
  • Recently, brokers such as Dukascopy, ThinkMarkets and Leverate have launched MCP integrations
Tuesday, 14/07/2026 | 12:55 GMT by Tareq Sikder
Retail FX

Syfe Adds AI Theme-to-Basket Stock Picker to Its Brokerage

  • Users type a market theme or event and the tool surfaces US stocks with exposure to it, the company said.
  • The launch places the Singapore platform alongside Interactive Brokers and others wiring AI into stock discovery.
Monday, 13/07/2026 | 08:58 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Regulation

Taming the Agent: Singapore Sets the Direction for AI Regulation

  • MAS, together with a consortium of financial institutions and fintech companies, has launched an initiative to establish governance standards for the use of AI agents in financial services.
  • The framework introduces the concept of real-time governance, monitoring and validating AI decisions at the point of execution.
Tuesday, 07/07/2026 | 12:18 GMT by Sylwester Majewski
Retail FX

AI Trading Doesn't Need New Rules. It Needs Better Governance.

  • AI trading doesn't need a new rulebook. Strong governance, audit trails, operational resilience and accountability matter more than the technology itself.
  • The real compliance challenge isn't AI—it's supervision. Firms must prove they can control, monitor and explain every AI-driven trade from prompt to execution.
Tuesday, 07/07/2026 | 11:00 GMT by Aydin Bonabi
Analysis

FCA's Landmark AI Review Lands After the Agents Already Arrived

  • The review concludes AI will become a defining force in retail finance by 2030, while the regulator leans on existing rules rather than writing new ones.
  • It arrives after at least ten brokers connected AI agents to live client accounts, with no framework yet written for the practice.
Monday, 06/07/2026 | 14:00 GMT by Damian Chmiel
FinTech

47% of Retail Investors Put China Ahead of US in AI Race, eToro Survey Finds

  • China's long-term market appeal rose to 29%, while the US fell to 35%.
  • AI stock optimism fell to 44% from 55%, while bearish views rose to 17%.
Wednesday, 24/06/2026 | 15:03 GMT by Tareq Sikder
Retail FX

Will the AI Agent Kill the Trading App?

  • Experts note that integrating AI agents via MCP with trading platforms is turning them into the main distribution layer.
  • With MetaQuotes expected to release its own MCP solution on Friday, apps might need to evolve into a data and execution pipeline.
  • While adoption among retail traders is increasing, true agentic trading is still sandboxed.
Wednesday, 24/06/2026 | 13:03 GMT by Adonis Adoni
Exchanges

Bybit Opens Walled AI Trading Accounts as Agent Wave Hits Crypto Exchanges

  • The exchange says its AI Subaccount isolates trading bots from client funds through API-only access and user-set risk limits.
  • The security model closely tracks what retail brokers like Robinhood and eToro built earlier this year.
Wednesday, 24/06/2026 | 08:17 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Thought Leaders

AI Agents Are Not Replacing Labor. They Are Reorganizing It

  • AI agents won't replace workers—they'll reshape how labor is organized.
Monday, 22/06/2026 | 06:01 GMT by MarketAcross
Executives

"You Can’t Grow Just by Cutting”: Huy Nguyen Trieu on AI in Finance Jobs

  • The new wave of AI represents a paradigm shift in cognitive power, fundamentally altering financial services, he argues.
  • Professionals who previously excelled at repetitive tasks are in danger of being left behind.
  • For Trieu, financial firms should view AI as a source of cognitive abundance rather than just an optimisation tool.
Tuesday, 16/06/2026 | 10:34 GMT by Adonis Adoni
Retail FX

Georgios Papassavas Becomes CEO at HFM as Technology Leaders Take the Wheel

  • He had previously served as the broker's CIO.
  • Tech leaders are taking the corner office in the industry, as AI reshapes how traders interact with markets.
Monday, 15/06/2026 | 06:42 GMT by Adonis Adoni
Regulation

Three AI Shifts and a $40 Billion Fraud Problem: Inside the FCA's First Horizon Scan

  • The UK regulator's first external horizon scan sets out how AI, synthetic crime and programmable finance could reshape financial services by 2030.
  • It lands as Deloitte projects gen-AI-enabled fraud in the US could reach $40 billion by 2027, up from $12.3 billion in 2023.
Thursday, 11/06/2026 | 19:01 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Technology

Leverate Bundles AI Chat Assistant With a Back-Office View of Client Activity

  • The broker-technology vendor is giving away the trader-facing chatbot while charging for the analytics that track what clients ask and search.
  • Rivals, including B2BROKER and Devexperts, have shipped similar tools, and Leverate has marketed a broker chatbot before.
Tuesday, 09/06/2026 | 10:00 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Trending

Japan’s Robinhood Joins the MCP Craze. Will the Industry Grapple with Existential Questions?

  • Among others, Woodstock's MCP will allow clients to place buy and sell orders, including split orders.
  • The degree of autonomy AI agents have across the brokerage industry remains uneven.
Tuesday, 09/06/2026 | 09:21 GMT by Adonis Adoni
Analysis

Claude Powers Nine of Ten Broker AI Agents That Now Trade Live Accounts

  • Ten retail brokers and platform vendors connected AI agents to live client accounts in just six months, and one model showed up almost everywhere.
  • A new FM Intelligence analysis maps who granted execution power, who kept a human in the loop and where client money sits.
Monday, 08/06/2026 | 19:00 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Retail FX

Capital.com Launches MCP Server for MENA Clients

  • Clients can place trades via AI agents only after completing a mandatory two-step confirmation process.
  • Launching MCP servers is gathering pace in the industry, raising questions about the future of the trading app.
Monday, 08/06/2026 | 08:44 GMT by Adonis Adoni
Thought Leaders

The return of the travel concierge, this time powered by artificial intelligence

  • AI integrates planning and booking to restore the travel concierge.
Thursday, 04/06/2026 | 07:26 GMT by FM
FinTech

AI Can Mimic Bloomberg. Replacing the Terminal Is Another Matter.

  • Dubbed as "Bloomberg Killers," AI terminals struggle to replace its massive social architecture: IB Chat.
  • "We haven’t attempted to nor intend to replace the terminal,” said one expert, while another stressed that LLM outputs are "convincing but need verification.”
Wednesday, 03/06/2026 | 10:22 GMT by Adonis Adoni
Retail FX

Exclusive: ThinkMarkets Launches MCP Server; “AI Can Execute Trades, but Not Access Funds”

  • “Traders can now connect any AI LLM of their choice” with ThinkTrader, Nauman Anees, CEO of ThinkMarkets, explained. It has joined the trend early, as only a handful of industry players offer MCP access.
  • “You have full control over which order types are scoped within your AI platform,” he explained on the control of traders over the access of AI to their accounts.
Monday, 01/06/2026 | 06:00 GMT by Arnab Shome
Institutional FX

The $500 Trillion AI Bet Depends on Energy, Infrastructure, and Policy, Not Just Code

  • If valuation outpaces physical output, AI boom could trigger inflationary pressures globally.
  • Transition gap between financial markets and infrastructure could cause macroeconomic instability.
Tuesday, 26/05/2026 | 13:00 GMT by Anndy Lian
Brokers

How Real is Your Broker’s 5-Star Rating in the Age of AI?

  • AI tools have made it easy to generate convincing reviews .
  • Italy proposed new legislation tightening customer feedback rules after serious hospitality review manipulation.
Monday, 25/05/2026 | 09:25 GMT by Sylwester Majewski
Retail FX

Retail Traders Get Custom AI Stock Research as Webull Launches Vega Analyst

  • Tool generates real-time stock analysis combining fundamentals, valuation, technicals, and market context.
  • Firms such as eToro and Robinhood are introducing AI tools for trading and portfolio analysis features.
Tuesday, 19/05/2026 | 15:18 GMT by Tareq Sikder
Retail FX

How AI Overload Affects Retail Traders’ Behaviour, Decisions, and Churn

  • Human attention remains limited despite AI expanding access to market analysis, signals, and recommendations.
  • In AI-driven markets, decision quality depends on how traders process information, not just the volume of data available.
Wednesday, 13/05/2026 | 09:35 GMT by Oded Shefer
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