Founders Letters

CMC Markets has retired the CMC Connect name and will now present its institutional business as CMC Markets Institutional.

The SEC has approved Cboe's binary options tied to key performance indicators reported by 23 companies, covering more than 100 metrics such as iPhone revenue. The cash-settled contracts pay a fixed $1, Robinhood plans to be the first retail broker to offer them, and trading awaits clearing registration.

Gold is trading around $4,150, recovering sharply after falling to a recent low of $4,073.

Global semiconductor and technology stocks sold off sharply on Thursday, with South Korea’s SK Hynix plunging over 10% and Samsung Electronics falling more than 8%.

Learn gold market structure to identify bullish, bearish and ranging XAUUSD trends using higher highs, higher lows, lower highs and lower lows, support and resistance.

Axi has launched an MCP integration connecting eligible MT5 accounts to Claude, allowing clients to access live market data, track positions, execute trades and update risk parameters through the AI assistant developed by Anthropic. Available to eligible Axi clients with an active MT5 account. Setup runs via Claude.ai.

Movantis has selected Integral to extend its FX liquidity offering for institutional clients including banks, payment networks and digital asset operators, adding an institutional trading platform, direct-to-client API trading and API connectivity into a third-party multi-dealer venue, supporting regional expansion.

Running a venue around the clock is the easy part. Pricing risk when the market underneath it is shut is not. Lars Holst, CEO of GCEX explains how to manage risk in 24/7 markets.

ATFX has released its Q4 2026 Trader Magazine, offering a closer look at the macroeconomic and market forces that could shape trading conditions in the final quarter of the year.

LSEG has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA that lets financial institutions analyse years of LSEG Tick History data in seconds using NVIDIA cuDF on GPUs, without creating another full copy of the dataset. Tick History holds 110 trillion rows across 100 million instruments and more than 580 venues and contributors.