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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.
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.
S&P Global Ratings gave Tether (USDT) the weakest Stablecoin Stability Assessment. Olaf Ransome breaks down what drives stablecoin risk—asset backing, custody/correspondent chains, transparency and reporting.
Gold-i CEO Tom Higgins explains why most crypto exchanges are still retail-first and what must change to win institutional flow — including FIX support, independent custody, predictable liquidity, and pricing models that reward aggregator-driven volume.
Why buy-side and sell-side firms are turning to tokenised collateral for efficient liquidity management.
GCC Brokers’ Youssef Bouz exposes how unrealistic leverage, bonuses and rebates distort the FX/CFD market – and why true A-Book, transparent brokerage is the only sustainable model.
Olaf Ransome explores how stablecoins offer faster, 24/7 payments and banking access where traditional rails fall short, with insights from industry experts: 6 reasons Stablecoins beat traditional payments
Olaf Ransome explores whether the rapid growth in the number of stablecoins will improve financial innovation or create new inefficiencies in digital payments.
JPMorgan is breaking new ground with the launch of JPMD – a “public-permissioned” stablecoin-like token that combines the interoperability and 24/7 settlement of a public blockchain with the regulatory controls and credit backing of a traditional bank deposit. In this post, Olaf Ransome revisits his long‑held view that tokenized deposits only work “inside the four walls” of their issuer, explains why JPMD’s hybrid model changes the game, and explores its far‑reaching implications for institutional liquidity, payment rails and the future of financial services.
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“Let’s get together!” Big US banks and infrastructure providers are apparently looking at a common stablecoin. How should you think about this and what should you think?
Around things digital assets we have huge momentum. Who is going to win? To understand where we might be headed, I caught up with somebody who thinks about things crypto aka digital assets for a living. Kenny Hearn, the Chief Investment Officer at SwissOne Capital, a specialist asset management company with a focus on institutional grade crypto and blockchain investment funds. Kenny spends his time thinking about who the winners and losers are going to be. He shared his thoughts on what he sees as the differentiators, and just as importantly his view on what is important for institutional investments to be made. This is not investment advice, just a view on how the digital asset space will develop. If you do want investment advice, feel free to contact Kenny.
Stablecoins are off to the races across the pond. The Donald and his team have been preparing a plan, and now with the help of the Senate are moving to making new laws to help and encourage things stablecoins. The team is ready with a bill which has been read in the Senate, kicking off its path to being a new law. The modestly named “Genius Act of 2025” sets out new rules for things Stablecoins.
Digital assets are on the Trump agenda. Amongst the flurry of Executive Orders signed in the White House was a directive on things Digital Assets (see comments for link). Trump was expected to be “pro Crypto”. This order tastes better than “just Crypto”; in my opinion it is “pro Digital Assets” ice cream with a generous sprinkling of “America first” on top, but bureaucrats don’t get one of whatever it is “this” turns out to be. Read on for more, and please do share a comment or two.
An analysis of all the cryptocurrencies related to Donald Trump, as well as an overview of his own involvement in the crypto space.
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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.
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.
Crypto exchange BingX has secured a Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) licence for its European arm from Austria's Financial Market Authority (FMA).
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.
Global equities under pressure: Hotter than expected US inflation and rising yields weighed on stocks, particularly technology and semiconductor shares.
Understand trading psychology and learn how a clear strategy, risk management and a trading journal help build discipline and day trading consistency.
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.
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.
Your Bourse and 4XPORTAL highlight their existing partnership, combining client onboarding, CRM and payment solutions with liquidity, execution and risk-management infrastructure for brokers.
The partnership brings together 4XPORTAL’s brokerage technology capabilities with Your Bourse’s connectivity, liquidity aggregation, and risk-management infrastructure.