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Olaf Ransome’s latest article on liquidity management explores PORTS (Perpetual Overnight Rate Treasury Securities) and how they could expand the supply of on-chain high-quality liquid assets (HQLA) for treasury and cash management. He explains why long cash balances create risk, how stablecoins and tokenised money market funds need safe short-duration assets, and what PORTS could mean for reverse repo, liquidity management and wholesale banking.
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.
Guest insight from Olaf Ransome on UNITE Global FMI and a “single pool of liquidity” vision to reduce nostro reliance, cut buffers and enable real-time PvP/DvP.
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.
In part 2 of his series A-book STP series, Youssef Bouz from GCC Brokers explains why Algorithmic and AI trading demand better execution. Youssef explains STP trading environments, slippage, spreads, and broker–trader alignment.
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.
At the top of the FX liquidity hierarchy sit Tier 1 banks, the institutions that set interbank rates and define the depth of the global forex market. This article explains how they operate, how their pricing flows down to retail brokers, and what it means for execution quality at every level.
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.
The definitive list of genuine prop trading firms and funded account challenges for 2026.
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
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Most FX and CFD brokers believe their reporting is accurate. Few can explain precisely how their volume figures are calculated, how spread revenue is derived, or how multi-currency denominations affect their net profit numbers. Inaccurate brokerage reporting is one of the industry's least discussed problems - management teams are making decisions, filing regulatory returns and reporting to stakeholders based on figures that contain systematic errors. This article explains why accurate brokerage reporting is genuinely complex, what the most common sources of error are, and what brokers can do to get their numbers right.
Sage Capital Management has won Solution Provider of the Year: Innovation at the Hedgeweek Digital Asset Awards 2026, recognising its integrated platform unifying onboarding, execution, custody, capital and technology for institutional digital asset participants, including private banking services for crypto professionals.
Binance has launched bStocks, fully-backed tokenised securities representing select US stocks, issued by BTech Holdings Limited. The first listings include Circle, Micron, Nvidia, Sandisk and Tesla, with trading available 24/7 and self-custody through BNB Chain-compatible wallets.
CME Group will launch 24/7 trading for new, smaller crude oil and gold contracts pending regulatory review. The 10-Barrel WTI futures launch on 30 August, with 24/7 trading for 1-Ounce Gold futures starting 26 July, as the exchange responds to growing demand for right-sized, round-the-clock risk management tools.
Elwood US has launched connectivity to Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated prediction market, allowing institutional clients to manage event contracts through their existing compliance, risk and reconciliation infrastructure, extending Elwood's platform coverage alongside digital assets, tokenised derivatives and equities.
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Want to stop guessing in the market? Learn how a proven price action strategy uses trend identification to show you exactly who is in control.
This explains the mechanics of US economic indicator Unemployment Rate as a strategic tool
Visa and OpenAI have announced a strategic partnership to enable secure, agent-initiated payments within OpenAI's platforms. Visa will provide tokenisation, fraud monitoring and network infrastructure, with transactions governed by user-defined spending controls and permissions.
Digital asset infrastructure provider Quadra has been named Solution Provider of the Year for Execution and Trading at the Hedgeweek Global Digital Assets Awards 2026.