Entrepreneur and cultural icon Martha Stewart has apparently made her first foray into the new world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with the launch of her digital boutique, FRESH Mint. Collections will be launched in partnership with leading NFT ...

The UK financial regulator The FCA has announced that it has acted to stop Cyprus based firm BDSwiss Holding Plc, and other members of the BDSwiss Group, from offering high risk contracts for differences (CFDs) to UK investors. The BDSwiss Group ...

Kapital Investment Group B.V. (KIG BV), part of the global financial services group Global Kapital Group and parent of the GKFX retail forex brand, has announced that it has acquired Işık Menkul Değerler A.Ş., a multi-asset broker in Turkey. The ...

The retail forex broker love affair with sports sponsorships and brand ambassadors continues, with the latest firm jumping on board being Dublin based AvaTrade, which has introduced legendary sprinter Usain Bolt as its new Brand Ambassador. This is ...

Popular video sharing and social networking site TikTok has updated its creator policies around Branded Content, which now outlaws TikTok creators from posting Branded Content on “Financial Services and Products”. That definition includes (and seems ...

Leading FX and CFDs brokerage group Plus500 (LON:PLUS) issued a half year trading update, indicating that its business slowed significantly in Q2-2021 in terms of both revenues and new client acquisitions in what the company called a “stable market ...

This is now getting interesting. A firm calling itself Gopher Investments has made a $250 million competing offer to buy the Financials division of Playtech plc (LON:PTEC), consisting of the Finalto institutional B2B business and Retail FX broker ...

Vlad Tenev, CEO and co-founder of online brokerage firm Robinhood has issued an interesting post about the company’s much-maligned practice of making money by selling its clients’ order flow to market makers (also known as payment-for-order-flow, or ...

Global Retail FX and CFDs broker Admirals, which recently rebranded from Admiral Markets, has sent a note out to clients, indicating that it is lowering the minimum trade size for the trading of cryptocurrency pairs BTCUSD, ETHUSD, and BCHUSD. ...

Multi-asset trading expert Saxo Markets is about to expand its offering via the launch of crypto FX paired with bitcoin, litecoin and more. The company is advertising the upcoming launch of the service to clients in several of the regions where it ...

US brokerage industry regulator FINRA (The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) has announced that it has barred former Goldman Sachs & Co. research analyst Brian Maguire for insider trading. FINRA said that Mr. Maguire twice purchased ...

FNG has learned that Hamburg, Germany based Retail FX and CFD broker NAGA Group AG has inked an agreement with specialist investor Yorkville Advisors, which could see NAGA raise up to €25 million (USD $30 million) in capital over the next three ...

Frankfurt based Deutsche Börse has announced that it is expanding its centrally cleared crypto offering on Xetra, with Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash. The new crypto ETNs offer easy access to the performance of cryptocurrencies, with physical backing. ...

FNG has learned that part of the new EU directive to combat money laundering will result in the unveiling of ownership information for Cyprus based Retail FX brokers. Cyprus is home to more than 100 licensed Retail FX brokers, many of which do a ...

FNG has learned that crypto trading and payments platform Bitpanda has received an Investment Firm license from Austrian financial regulator Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA). The new license will allow Bitpanda to expand the type of products and services ...

LSE-AIM listed e-banking and international payments firm Equals Group plc (formerly FairFX) has announced a partnership with Tap Global Limited to provide cryptocurrency exchange services to both its B2B and B2C customer bases. Equals stated that ...

RoboMarkets, a European financial broker, informs that it will no more provide trading services for cryptocurrencies. On March 24th all positions in crypto CFDs will be closed by current quotations. Cyprus based Retail FX and CFDs broker RoboMarkets ...

Institutional spot crypto currency exchange LMAX Digital, part of London’s LMAX Group, has announced that trading volumes hit a record $61 billion in January 2021. That marks a significant increase from last year, when in Q1-2020 LMAX Digital ...