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Sports prediction market Novig has secured designation from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Designated Contract Market (DCM), clearing the way for the company to operate as a federally regulated exchange and roll out across all 50 states from this summer.

New data from trade-flow analytics firm Tapaas ( ) tracks how traders across ten markets, grouped into five regions, were buying and selling two of the world's most closely watched assets, WTI crude oil and gold, over the four weeks to 16 June.

Ripple has made a strategic investment in Flutterwave's $3.2 billion Series E round, integrating RLUSD, the XRP Ledger and Ripple Payments into Flutterwave's African infrastructure to support cross-border settlement, remittance corridors and faster transaction clearing.

Fluctuations in borrowing costs have a direct impact on both corporate profitability and broader economic activity.

This week's German index outlook assessing cooling phase pertinent to industrial resilience.

Currency technology provider Integral has expanded its longstanding partnership with global financial services firm StoneX Group to establish connectivity at the Equinix SG1 data facility in Singapore, strengthening StoneX's ability to serve clients across the Asia Pacific region.

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The RBA held at 4.35% with a hawkish tilt, but the Aussie barely flinched — because the pen that writes AUD/USD's next move is being held in Washington, not Sydney

US multi-asset clearing and brokerage firm Wedbush has cleared more than one billion prediction market contracts on a cumulative basis as of 31 May 2026

A liquidity bridge is the technology that sits between your trading platform and your liquidity providers, handling all order routing and price streaming in real time. Without a correctly configured bridge, an A-book or hybrid broker cannot route client orders to the market, cannot manage hedging effectively, and cannot control execution quality. Despite being the most operationally critical piece of brokerage infrastructure after the trading platform itself, the liquidity bridge is also one of the least understood - particularly among brokers who inherited a setup without knowing exactly how it was built. This guide explains what a bridge does, how it works technically, and why its configuration directly determines the quality of execution your clients experience.