Institutional Market Insights: Industry

The Lowdown - newsletter. Something significant is happening in financial markets right now. Prediction markets are the new shiny object, and they are definitely now an institutional asset class. In the same way that brokers scrambled to add crypto to their offering a few years ago, the smartest operators in our space are already asking how they access prediction markets.

Kalshi is the largest CFTC-regulated prediction markets and event contracts exchange. In this exclusive interview, LiquidityFinder's Sam Low speaks with Andy Ross, Head of Institutional Business, about institutional access, block trading, market making, capital efficiency and the landmark launch of the first regulated perpetual futures on a US exchange, and what it all means for liquidity providers, brokers and institutional FX professionals.

LSEG's DiSH promises atomic settlement and 24/7 PvP and DvP capability using tokenised commercial bank deposits. But when the balances move and the banks don't, who actually owns what? Olaf Ransome examines the mechanics - and the risks.

n in-depth review of TMGM (TradeMax Global Markets), the ASIC-regulated ECN broker offering raw spreads from 0.0 pips, MT4 and MT5, copy trading via HUBx and ZuluTrade, and 24/7 multilingual support across four regulated jurisdictions. Find out if TMGM belongs on your shortlist.

LiquidityFinder's Sam Low sits down with Nathan Sage, founder and CEO of Sage Capital Management, to trace his journey from FX fund manager to running a Bitcoin fund doing $1BN a day in 2016 — and how that experience of pain built one of the most connected prime brokerages in the digital assets market today.

A comprehensive interactive guide to 50+ global financial regulators - including FCA, ASIC, CFTC, MAS and ESMA - rated across five dimensions: risk management, licence value, investor protection and more. Updated 2026.

Gold at record highs, oil as a meme stock, and crypto exchanges eyeing your clients. Watch our expert panel - Gold-i, Your Bourse, Tapaas and Devexperts - discuss broker risk management, , AI trading and the MetaTrader debate.

Over a long tapas lunch in Shoreditch, London, Sam Low sits down with Peter Brooks and Jess Reed from ADMISI eFX, the dedicated electronic FX desk operating inside one of the world's largest agricultural commodities companies. What emerges is a compelling case for why this largely unknown operation deserves serious attention from brokers, payments firms, corporate treasuries, and digital asset companies alike.

In Part 6 of his A-Book STP series, Youssef Bouz from GCC Brokers looks at how the rise of algorithmic and AI-assisted trading is forcing brokers to rethink risk models, revenue strategy, and long-term sustainability, and why trader longevity, not short-term extraction, is the real measure of a resilient execution business.

In Part 5 of his A-Book STP series, Youssef Bouz from GCC Brokers provides a guide to distinguishing healthy algorithmic trading from latency arbitrage and structural abuse — and why behavior, not profitability, is the real risk indicator.

In 2026, ready-made infrastructure is beating custom development on speed, cost and compliance. Learn when to build vs buy—and where CTOs lose time and budget.

In Part 4 of his A-Book STP series, Youssef Bouz explains why execution quality and infrastructure are now core performance drivers for algorithmic traders, and why consistent latency, stable fills, and VPS-based environments reduce execution noise, improve backtest realism, and support disciplined, scalable trading.

A complete comparison of MT4, MT5, cTrader, and modern proprietary trading platforms.

African FX liquidity is shaped by hard-currency scarcity and capital controls. Roland Schilling, COO at Sika Financial, explains how interbank reference rates differ from parallel markets, and how Sika settles via CCP/PvP.

In Part 3 of his A-Book STP series, Youssef Bouz explains why STP should be viewed as a trading environment—not a feature—exploring execution realism, market behaviour, and why professional and algorithmic traders prefer true STP models for long-term alignment and scalability.

Think A-book is safer? This guest insight from Anya Aratovskaya breaks down the hidden risks for FX/CFD brokers: leverage mismatches, margin shocks, collateral traps, tech outages and flow quality.

Why one-size-fits-all trading models fail as automation rises. In the second in his series of articles Youssef Bouz from GCC Brokers explains how discretionary and algorithmic traders need different execution conditions (transparency, predictability, stable infrastructure and clear scaling rules) and why realistic market behaviour (spreads, slippage, external liquidity) plus clear broker positioning reduces friction and supports long-term performance.

Watch the LiquidityFinder webinar replay on A-Book vs B-Book execution models for retail FX/CFD and crypto brokers. Hear Lars Holst (GCEX), Rob Brown (MAS Markets), Jeremy Kinstlinger (Afterprime), Youssef Bouz (GCC Brokers), Victor Ivanchenko (cBridge/Spotware) and Sam Low (LiquidityFinder) discuss AI-driven trading, liquidity stress, regulatory scrutiny, risk transfer, LP/PB relationships, balance-sheet volatility and brokerage valuation over the next 3–5 years.