Capital Markets

XS.com has appointed Hanna Le as Regional Business Development Director for Vietnam. She returns to the broker after serving as Country Manager, having previously worked at GTCFX, Radex Markets, Info Finance and Shinhan Bank. She will lead business development and partner relations initiatives in the Vietnamese market.

Prediction market operator Polymarket has received approval from the National Futures Association (NFA) for its affiliate PM Derivatives, LLC to operate as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) on a fully collateralised basis.

Within hours of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) clearing perpetual futures on individual US stocks to trade from today, a trade group backed by exchange operator Cboe Global Markets and market maker Citadel Securities went to court to stop them.

Perpetual futures contracts on individual US equities can begin trading on CFTC-registered exchanges from today, 3 November 2026, after the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) confirmed the contracts had been deemed approved as security futures products.

Dubai-based financial derivatives group MultiBank Group has appointed former Crypto.com executive Mohammed Al Hakim as Vice Chairman of MultiBank Group and CEO of MB.io,

Interbank trading venue MultiBank Exchange, part of Dubai-based financial derivatives group MultiBank Group, has unveiled what it describes as the world’s first interbank trading platform to offer double exotic currency pairs with settlement in both fiat currencies and digital assets.

Spotware Systems is inviting FX/CFD brokers and prop firms to a free webinar, “Your brand, inside cTrader: stand out with pre-installed plugins”.

Anthropic’s S-1 details financial results ahead of a potential Nasdaq listing, subject to regulatory approvals and market conditions.

Spotex has appointed James Roddy to Institutional Sales, FX & Digital Assets, EMEA, based in London. He brings over 20 years of markets experience across TP ICAP, BGC Partners, ODL Securities and Advanced Markets, and will focus on growing the firm’s institutional client base across EMEA, building client relationships.

Sporttrade has received CFTC registration as both a Designated Contract Market and a Derivatives Clearing Organization, enabling intermediated access via FCMs, direct participants, IBs and ISVs, plus clearing for other DCMs. Rollout is phased, starting with select flow and liquidity providers, with Fliff onboarding.