retail brokers
Weekly Review: AvaTrade and Trade Nation Acquire FXCM; Nasdaq Backs 24/7 Trading
- Trading 212 invested £44 million in overseas subsidiaries in 2025, including £21.1 million in Germany.
- Prop firm Vest Labs raised $13 million in pre-seed funding to expand its trading business.
Saturday, 10/10/2026 | 07:00 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Match-Trade Adds Retail Traders to MCP After Brokers and Prop Firms
- Traders can query positions, swap costs, portfolio exposure and trading history through natural language.
- The service can identify losing trade patterns and positions without stop-loss orders.
Monday, 05/10/2026 | 14:32 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Weekly Review: MyForexFunds Brand Assets Sold; IG’s OTC Revenue Retention Slips
- The top 1% of winning retail trading accounts captured 66.5% of client profits over the past year.
- The FCA opened a five-month window for crypto firms to apply for UK authorisation ahead of next year’s new framework.
Saturday, 03/10/2026 | 07:00 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Are Finfluencers Becoming an Increasing Blind Spot for Brokers and Banks?
- Sarafina Wolde Gabriel, CEO at Rightlander, highlights the difficulty of detecting potentially non-compliant content across fast-moving social media platforms.
- Seventeen regulators joined the FCA’s Global Action Week targeting non-compliant finfluencers.
Wednesday, 30/09/2026 | 07:45 GMT by
Sarafina Wolde Gabriel
The Broker-Backed Prop Firm: Why Vertical Integration, Not Capital, Is the Real Advantage
- Shervin Arian, CEO of OmegaRatio Advisors, highlights risk literacy as a key gap between smaller prop firms and established brokers entering the same business model.
- Vertical integration can align a prop firm’s revenue with trader activity instead of making successful traders a growing payout cost.
Tuesday, 29/09/2026 | 05:03 GMT by
Shervin Arian
Weekly Recap: Inside LCG’s Three-Year Buyout; CMC Markets Plans Prop Trading Launch
- BlackBull Markets has postponed its planned IPO until 2027 as its board focuses on business growth.
- iFOREX reported a $2.5 million first-half loss and plans to cut monthly operating costs by $500K.
Saturday, 26/09/2026 | 07:00 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Weekly Review: Trustpilot Flags One in Five Retail Brokers; iFOREX Cuts H1 EBITDA to $1.4m
- In an interview with Finance Magnates, NAGA’s CEO detailed its return to profitability, regional growth and increasing use of AI.
- The US Senate blocked the CLARITY Act in a 50-49 cloture vote.
Saturday, 19/09/2026 | 07:00 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Interactive Brokers Lets US Investors Move from X Cashtags to Trading
- The feature supports stock and cryptocurrency tickers, including $AAPL and $BTC, with live market data.
- The broker recently added ChatGPT and Grok to its trading platform as external technology integrations expand.
Wednesday, 16/09/2026 | 09:44 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
Google Is Losing LATAM’s Traders to Communities
- Anish Lal, CBDO at BlackBull Markets, argues that the commercial model is shifting from pure CPA and rebates towards retainers, commissions, event support and hybrid performance deals.
- The IB model will not disappear, but it will professionalise, with retainers increasingly justified by retained client books rather than event attendance.
Wednesday, 16/09/2026 | 07:07 GMT by
Anish Lal
Nigeria’s Proposed CFD Rules Are Not Irrational; They Are Mispriced
- SALVUS’ MD Nikolas Xenofontos says Nigeria's SEC chose generous leverage, finds the design coherent, but argues the capital is calibrated to ration licences rather than protect clients.
- Tech providers face a 5 billion naira ($2.2 million) capital requirement and a 30% local ownership requirement. If offshore vendors stay away, regulated brokers will be left with unregulated platforms.
Friday, 11/09/2026 | 07:00 GMT by
Nikolas Xenofontos
Traders’ LTV Is Not Just a Marketing Issue but an Ongoing Development Process
- Oded Shefer, CPattern's founder & CEO, argues personalised trader development could be the next step beyond personalised marketing and retention tools.
- Monthly trader churn can reach 50%, highlighting the cost of disengagement after first-time deposit.
Wednesday, 09/09/2026 | 13:00 GMT by
Oded Shefer
Pakistan Hands You Very Cheap Leads in the CFD Industry. Then the Deposit Page Happens
- Stanislov Galandzovskyi reveals Pakistan leads cost $4.30, but just 1.9% become FTDs, pushing CPA to $226 and payback to 6–9 months despite a potential 3.3x LTV.
- Complex payment routes made Pakistan’s deposit page the main bottleneck, with users needing Urdu guidance and WhatsApp support to understand how to fund their accounts.
Tuesday, 08/09/2026 | 06:49 GMT by
Stanislav Galandzovskyi
Trade More, Get More? Not Anymore
- Paul Golden explores how brokers are moving beyond rebates and trade-based rewards, using events, support, education and better service to build lasting client loyalty.
- Cash rewards can win traders, but they rarely keep them. Brokers are shifting focus to trust, platform quality, credit access, insights and stronger client relationships.
Thursday, 03/09/2026 | 06:01 GMT by
Paul Golden
Taurex UK Returns to Profit as Turnover Nearly Triples to £5.6 Million
- The firm's administrative expenses rose £1.5 million to £4.6 million despite its return to profit.
- The company appointed Matthew Wright as Global CEO in May, returning four years after stepping down.
Tuesday, 01/09/2026 | 12:04 GMT by
Tareq Sikder
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