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      Image for: How Do Foreign Brokers Enter The Brazilian Market? Costs, Capital And CVM Rules

      How can foreign brokers enter Brazil? Henrique Conte of FinPlus explains the local partner route, your own licence, CVM rules, costs and capital.

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      Scope Prime's Andrew Taylor sets out how brokers serving Asian clients should measure and price sharp gold flow, citing the October 2025 and January 2026 sell-offs, thin liquidity at the Asian open, segmentation over relationship-wide repricing and the questions to ask a prime of prime provider.

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      Scope Prime's Andrew Taylor sets out how brokers serving Asian clients should measure and price sharp gold flow, citing the October 2025 and January 2026 sell-offs, thin liquidity at the Asian open, segmentation over relationship-wide repricing and the questions to ask a prime of prime provider.

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      edgeful is a trading analytics platform with 150+ reports built on historical price data, covering futures such as NQ and ES. This guide explains its daily process, screener, TradingView indicators, edgeful AI, automated algos for prop firm accounts, and three pricing plans from $49 to $299 a month.

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      Dark pool trading was once the preserve of institutional desks, but a new wave of AI tools is promising self-directed investors a look into non-displayed liquidity and where the big money sits. This article explains what dark pools actually are, why retail traders face an even bigger information gap in FX than in equities, and what AI-driven intelligence platforms like IUX24 can and cannot reveal about institutional positioning.

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      The AI trade has always been a supply chain story. For the past two years, the narrative has been simple: insatiable demand for compute infrastructure, constrained supply at every choke point, and the companies that own the bottlenecks collect the toll. NVIDIA on GPUs. ASML on lithography. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron on memory. The entire semiconductor complex has traded on scarcity, and scarcity has delivered historic margins.

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      Interactive Brokers reported customer equity of USD 964.7 billion at the end of the third quarter, up 27% year on year, as customer accounts increased 35% to 5.58 million.

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      Crypto exchange BingX has secured a Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) licence for its European arm from Austria's Financial Market Authority (FMA).

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      CXM Group has agreed to acquire TD Markets (Pty) Ltd, a Johannesburg-headquartered broker authorised by South Africa’s FSCA. TD Markets keeps its brand, team and licence, and Amar Ramith stays as CEO. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal gives CXM a regulated base in South Africa. Clients need take no action.

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      Global equities under pressure: Hotter than expected US inflation and rising yields weighed on stocks, particularly technology and semiconductor shares.

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      Ripple Prime has launched support for real-world asset perpetual swaps, giving institutional clients including Virtu exposure to more than 100 reference markets across equities, indices, ETFs, metals, energy and FX. The swaps reference Trade.xyz perpetual futures on Hyperliquid and trade and settle around the clock.

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      iSAM Securities Apex has integrated with Crossover Markets, connecting brokers to CROSSx, its institutional digital asset ECN, through Apex’s ultra-low-latency technology stack.

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      Your Bourse and 4XPORTAL highlight their existing partnership, combining client onboarding, CRM and payment solutions with liquidity, execution and risk-management infrastructure for brokers.

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