Institutional Market Insights: Risk Management

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.

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.

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.

A comprehensive look at SEBI regulations, permitted currency pairs, broker options, and what the institutional landscape looks like.

In this conversation with Andrey Stoychev, CEO of VS Capital, we discuss why broker crypto often fails in real markets and how VS Capital has built award winning crypto liquidity that holds up under pressure. It breaks down multi-source pricing across exchanges, market makers and OTC desks, access to stronger exchange tiers, dedicated CFD redistribution streams, and a risk managed layer designed to plug gaps and keep top of book depth stable through volatility and weekends. Ideal reading for brokers and liquidity teams comparing crypto CFD liquidity providers and trying to understand the true all in cost, execution quality, and the role of regulated brokers versus unregulated perpetual futures venues.

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.

Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) allow peer-to-peer trading without intermediaries. This guide covers how AMMs work, how to connect a wallet, understand liquidity pools, manage slippage, and trade safely across Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Solana.

Discover how SIKA’s CCP-based FX platform streamlines EM FX order matching and settlement, reduces credit risk and prepares banks and brokers for stablecoin rails.

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.

Money Markets are a cornerstone of day-to-day cash aka liquidity management for both financial institutions and corporate treasuries; we need those instruments to fine tune what we do. And things are changing post the “run-on-the-bank 21st century version” which hit Silicon Valley Bank & Credit Suisse. So, understanding what is changing helps us make the most out of the necessity of optimising what we do around cash management. To gain some insight on the latest market developments, I spoke to Hugh MacMillen from iIxNotes. Hugh is a long-time Money Markets guy who has a passion for developing new products and marketplaces.

Deepcoin is a cryptocurrency platform started in 2018 and based in Singapore. Here is everything that you need to know about the platform, and whether it is safe to use.

How zero interest rates and economic stagnation create liquidity traps in financial markets.

A curated list of the top exchanges for trading crypto futures, options, and perpetual swaps.

This guide covers how leverage works across different asset classes, margin requirements, and the risk management practices every leveraged trader should follow.

Whether you are in FX, equities, or even crypto, you have to settle trades and make payments. That world is complex and fragmented. And the complexity keeps growing as we add new forms of future money: Stablecoins, tokenised deposits, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and e-money. All of those are niches which we have to manage. This article focuses on how you can fine tune your processes to best manage the scarce resource that is intraday liquidity.

Understanding toxic flow, latency arbitrage, and how to protect your brokerage book from sharp traders.