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19 stories tagged brokers, newest first.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
The 100 basis point question for year end and how brokers should talk to clients about it
Markets have priced further Fed tightening through year end. The specific question of whether that pricing holds shapes how brokers should communicate with clients, and the current communication is mostly weak.
The prop trading segment is quietly professionalising and the enterprise entrants are the catalyst
CMC Markets entering prop trading, alongside continued specialisation from the independent firms, is quietly reshaping the segment. The professionalisation is happening faster than most retail coverage acknowledges.
Retail brokerage AI shipped as a full week and the product design gap widened
MetaQuotes, Match-Trader, Zopa, DB Investing, Ant International and Evergreen.ai all announced meaningful AI product moves this week. Read together, the announcements describe a widening product design gap.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Scope Markets hired a MENA research head and the talent shuffle is the shape of a growth market
Scope Markets hired Ibrahim Hossny as Head of Research and Marketing MENA. The specific hire is small news. The rate at which senior talent is moving between MENA broker operations is the shape of a growth market.
A quarter of VARIANSE's cTrader clients now copy other traders and social trading grew up
VARIANSE reported that approximately 3.7 million dollars in investor funding across multiple providers is now flowing through copy-trading strategies on its cTrader offering. Social trading has left the retail toy category.
Alpari is at the Dubai expo and the mid-tier brand strategy is on display
Alpari's presence at Forex Expo Dubai this week is the sort of unremarkable participation that quietly defines the mid-tier broker landscape. The choice to invest in the expo is more revealing than any specific announcement.
Hantec Prime tripled its trading volume and the institutional side of retail is what to watch
Hantec Prime reported trading volume up more than 300 percent and 42 new institutional clients through 2026. The story is not the growth number. It is where the growth is coming from.
Monday, September 28, 2026
Thursday, September 24, 2026
CMC Markets is launching prop trading and the label is a category boundary breaking down
CMC Markets will launch proprietary trading services on 1 October with True North Tech as the program operator. A listed regulated broker moving into prop is a statement about where the retail category is heading.
NAGA returned to profit and iFOREX cut EBITDA by more than half in the same week
NAGA reports back-to-profit and regional expansion. iFOREX halved H1 EBITDA to 1.4 million dollars. Read together, the two results describe a retail broker segment splitting into two very different populations.
MetaQuotes is bringing AI into MT5 and the platform layer is the actual battleground
MetaQuotes used Forex Expo Dubai to unveil AI-powered automation inside MT5. For brokers, the announcement is less about features than about who now owns the client experience.
Turkey arrested 175 in a 266 million dollar forex and crypto fraud network
Turkish authorities detained 175 people over an alleged international forex and crypto fraud scheme worth 266 million dollars. The operation reads like a template for what regulators in the region will do next.
Monday, September 21, 2026
mBank is quitting forex while Poland's CFD market grows 50 percent
mBank stops new forex and CFD positions on 1 October, leaving two bank-owned brokers in Poland. The exit comes as client numbers rise 50 percent and losses reach 2.68 billion zlotys.
Forex Expo Dubai opens tomorrow and the floor plan is the strategy
Two days, five halls, more than 250 exhibitors. Forex Expo Dubai opens on Tuesday, and where a broker stands on that floor says more about its next twelve months than anything in its press release.
Trustpilot put a warning label on one in five broker profiles
Trustpilot has placed consumer warning banners on 21 percent of the 100 largest retail broker profiles. The label is not a rating. It is a public statement that the reviews underneath it cannot be trusted.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Monday, August 17, 2026
The white-label forex broker wave is accelerating, and Asia is where it is loudest
A wave of white-label forex broker launches is accelerating in 2026 as turnkey technology, stricter licensing, and Asian retail demand converge, lowering the cost of entry while raising the compliance bar for new platforms.
The forex platform stack is shifting as cTrader opens a paid store and MetaTrader changes the rules
The retail forex platform landscape is reconfiguring in 2026 as cTrader launches paid subscriptions in its app store and MetaTrader platform changes raise the bar for brokers, pushing the market toward differentiated software and white-label infrastructure.