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ICM MENA has promoted Ahmed Kamal to Chief Executive Officer. Kamal joined the firm in March 2019 as Business Development Manager and most recently served as Regional Manager. He brings more than a decade of experience in financial markets, with expertise in foreign exchange, business development and team leadership.

Theorem has integrated Symbiotic’s Liquid Lane RFQ network, letting holders of tokenised real-world assets trade against on-chain pool liquidity and market-maker quotes. The integration is live on Ethereum, with Midas’s yield-bearing mHYPER fund as the first supported asset. Holders can trade for the USDC stablecoin.

US equities were volatile with technology selloff erasing much of the earlier rebound.

FM Summit London 2026 returns to Old Billingsgate on 24 November for its 15th edition, with LMAX Group, Plus500 and oneZero among confirmed exhibitors. The one-day event adds Business Connect meetings and roundtables, and opens with a networking evening at The Folly on 23 November.

Finance Magnates Summit London returns to Old Billingsgate on 24 November 2026 for its 15th edition. The one-day event brings together brokers, liquidity providers, institutional firms, trading technology vendors, payments businesses and digital asset firms.

iSAM Securities Apex has integrated with Match-Prime, giving brokers access to liquidity across more than 2,000 instruments, with tailored pricing and up to 10 levels of market depth.

propfunding.com's free-entry instant funding changes the order of prop funding. Start trading first. Its free-entry instant funding model offers two qualification attempts without an upfront activation fee.

US stocks closed higher on Wednesday, with the Nasdaq gaining 1%, the S&P 500 rising 0.6%, and the Dow advancing 0.7%, as renewed enthusiasm for AI-related stocks lifted market sentiment.

SpaceX went public in June as a rocket company. On October 20 it reported as something else entirely: an AI infrastructure business, financed by a satellite broadband network, with a launch division attached. Rockets generated 12% of third quarter revenue and lost money. The AI segment generated 52% of revenue and consumed 84% of capital expenditure. Starlink generated 85% of operating profit.

Standard Chartered has signed definitive agreements to acquire 100% of Zodia Custody UK Limited, folding its regulated digital asset custody business into Securities Services. Zodia Solutions will be set up under SC Ventures with bank investors including Northern Trust, NAB Ventures, Emirates NBD and Investcorp.