Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Exness wins big at FMAS:2025 and leads conversation on the future of trading in Africa

FMAS:25 brought together industry professionals, partners, and thought leaders from across the continent and beyond. Paul Margarites, Exness Regional Commercial Director, joined the Leaders Roundta...

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January 08, 2024

Storms and strikes not flooding the positive outlook on the UK economy

As traders recently turned bullish on the sterling for the first time in three months, analysts believe the UK economy, which spent most of 2023 on the rim of recession, is on the rise. Bloomberg r...

November 21, 2023

UK borrowing reaches record levels, topped only by stats from 1993 & 2020

The ONS’s figures also compared the same period from 2022, where net borrowing registered lower than this October’s figures. Not only this, but it also sits as the second highest borrowing figu...

July 27, 2023

Is the Fed done hiking? Markets think so, Powell doesn’t

Market Expects No Further Hikes in 2023 According to the CME’s FedWatch tool, market participants now overwhelmingly expect that the Fed’s hikes for 2023 are over. There is currently a 78% prob...

July 25, 2023

Weekly data: traders concentrate on the Fed and ECB

The focus for the Fed’s press conference on Wednesday night is on whether there’s any hint about a hike in the fourth quarter. Traders mostly expect this to be the last hike of this cycle for t...

Forex News

June 03, 2025 — BY Sam Boughedda

Interactive Brokers Sees Client Accounts Rise 32% YoY

The gain also represents a 2% month-on-month increase, as the global electronic broker continued to benefit from heightened trading activity and investor engagement. The US-based firm said daily av...

June 03, 2025

Robinhood Completes Bitstamp Acquisition

The deal brings Bitstamp’s long-established crypto exchange into Robinhood’s portfolio, adding retail and institu...

June 02, 2025

TP ICAP Announces Neptune Networks Acquisition

In a press release Monday, the company said the move aims to transform fixed income markets through enhanced data and...

June 02, 2025

Standard Chartered Announces New Global Head of Data, Analytics & AI for Wealth and Retail Banking Business

The position is a newly created role aimed at strengthening the Bank’s data-driven strategy across the client journ...

June 02, 2025

ATFX Gains License from Cambodia’s Securities and Exchange Regulator (SERC)

The move marks ATFX’s official entry into the country’s growing financial market. The broker secured the licence ...

May 31, 2025

Tradeweb Announces Sherry Marcus as its New Head of AI

In the newly created role, Marcus will lead Tradeweb’s AI strategy, enhancing capabilities in price discovery, deal...

May 30, 2025

RBC Becomes the First Canadian Clearing Member to Join LCH CDSClear

The move marks a step forward in the global expansion of the credit default swap (CDS) clearing platform. LCH CDSClea...

May 30, 2025

Oanda Fined $600k By the National Futures Association

The New York-based retail foreign exchange dealer, which is owned by proprietary trading firm FTMO, agreed to the set...

May 30, 2025

Alpha Group International to Continue Acquisition Talks with Corpay

In a statement, Alpha’s board confirmed it had recently held talks with Corpay and believes it is in shareholders�...

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Industry Interviews

July 11, 2023

INTERVIEW

Interview: Brokeree’s Julia Ilichyova talks about expansion in EMEA and APAC+ and growing the team

LR: Two years ago, we talked about how the team behind Brokeree has developed since the company’s inception. Can you tell me how the team has grown and evolved in the past two years? Julia: Over ...

June 15, 2023

INTERVIEW

Exclusive Interview: Eduardo Alves talks about driving strategic excellence at 4XC

LR: What motivated you to join 4XC as the Chief Strategic Officer? Eduardo: Choosing to join 4XC came from a deep personal connection with Joao Monteiro, the company's founder, and our shared visio...

March 08, 2023

INTERVIEW

Exclusive: Focus on women in tech on International Women's Day

Daphne Munuera, Client Services Officer, iSAM Securities LR: Can you tell me a little bit about your career? – "For the majority of my career, I've worked in the finance sector. My first job was ...

March 07, 2023

INTERVIEW

Exclusive: Hantec Markets' Hayel Abu-Hamdan talks about LATAM expansion, market expectations for 2023 and more

LR: Hantec Markets expanded in LATAM with a new Chile office in October last year. What does that mean for the company? Hayel: Our expansion into LATAM is the latest example of our company’s cont...

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Cryptocurrency

June 03, 2025 — BY Sam Boughedda

Robinhood Completes Bitstamp Acquisition

The deal brings Bitstamp’s long-established crypto exchange into Robinhood’s portfolio, adding retail and institutional customers across the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Asia. Founded in 2011, Bitstamp holds more than 50 active licences and registrations globally and operates offices in Luxembourg, the U.K., Slovenia, Singapore and the U.S. The acquisition gives…

May 30, 2025

CME and CF Benchmarks to Launch 4 New Cryptocurrency Reference Rates and Real-Time Indices

The move expands their suite of benchmarks to cover over 96% of the investible cryptocurrency market. The new indices, which are not tied to tradable futures products, aim to provide transparent, r...

May 27, 2025

Deutsche Bank and finaXai Partner on Tokenised Funds Servicing

The collaboration is said to form part of Project DAMA 2, a multi-chain asset servicing pilot aimed at streamlining how asset managers manage and support tokenised funds and investor interactions.�...

May 21, 2025

Binance’s Payment Solution Integrates with Pix

The move is said to allow Binance users in Brazil to instantly convert over 100 cryptocurrencies into reais to pay merchants or transfer funds to any Pix-compatible account. Transactions are comp...

May 21, 2025

CME Group Announces First XRP Futures Trades

The initial day of trading saw more than $19 million in notional volume. The contracts are offered in two sizes: a micro contract of 2,500 XRP and a larger 50,000 XRP contract. Both are cash-sett...

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Technology

January 21, 2025 BY Sam Boughedda

Standard Chartered Announces Launch of SC PrismFX

The firm said in a press release that the solutions suite is designed to cater to the diverse FX needs of Financial Institutions (FI), Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFI), PayTech, and Corporate clients globally. SC PrismFX is said to integrate Standard Chartered’s digital Transaction Banking, Financial Markets, and Digital Platforms under one brand, providing FX payment…

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January 06, 2025

ACY Securities Expands Copy Trading to MT5 via Tradingcup

Beginning January 3, 2025, the company said the enhancement aims to provide broader trading opportunities for traders. The Tradingcup platform, launched in early 2024, has quickly gained traction, ...

November 11, 2024

Travelex to Revamp ATM Network with NCR Atleos

In partnership with NCR Atleos, the company revealed it is replacing its entire portfolio of over 600 ATMs across eight countries with new hardware and software. The move is designed to elevate the...

October 24, 2024

Worldline Partners with Visa to Enhance Fraud Management Solution

The global payment services provider explained in its press release announcing the deal that the collaboration combines Worldline's extensive transactional data with Visa's Cybersource Decision Man...

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October 16, 2024

Danske Bank Adopts Broadridge's Proxy Voting Solution

The company explained in a press release that the strategic partnership aims to enhance the accuracy and speed of the proxy voting process, empowering Danske Bank's clients to make more informed in...

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