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A comprehensive interactive guide to 50+ global financial regulators - including FCA, ASIC, CFTC, MAS and ESMA - rated across five dimensions: risk management, licence value, investor protection and more. Updated 2026.

Gold at record highs, oil as a meme stock, and crypto exchanges eyeing your clients. Watch our expert panel - Gold-i, Your Bourse, Tapaas and Devexperts - discuss broker risk management, , AI trading and the MetaTrader debate.

Over a long tapas lunch in Shoreditch, London, Sam Low sits down with Peter Brooks and Jess Reed from ADMISI eFX, the dedicated electronic FX desk operating inside one of the world's largest agricultural commodities companies. What emerges is a compelling case for why this largely unknown operation deserves serious attention from brokers, payments firms, corporate treasuries, and digital asset companies alike.

Explore live spread and quote benchmarks powered by the Tradefora Composite Index (TCI), an independent dataset aggregated from multiple FX and CFD brokers. View average, minimum and maximum spreads by instrument and timeframe, plus composite bid/ask quote data updated continuously at millisecond precision.

In Part 6 of his A-Book STP series, Youssef Bouz from GCC Brokers looks at how the rise of algorithmic and AI-assisted trading is forcing brokers to rethink risk models, revenue strategy, and long-term sustainability, and why trader longevity, not short-term extraction, is the real measure of a resilient execution business.

Fusion Capital is a specialist crypto liquidity provider offering brokers over 350 crypto CFD pairs with bespoke pricing, pure A-book execution, and access to decentralised exchange liquidity through Hyperliquid. In this broker profile, LiquidityFinder's Sam Low speaks with Head of Product Jasper Cooney about how Fusion's in-house trading bots monetise flow across centralised and decentralised venues, why crypto exchanges handle toxic flow differently to FX, and how brokers can now offer clients pre-IPO perpetual futures through their existing MT5 infrastructure.

In Part 5 of his A-Book STP series, Youssef Bouz from GCC Brokers provides a guide to distinguishing healthy algorithmic trading from latency arbitrage and structural abuse — and why behavior, not profitability, is the real risk indicator.

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.

Discover whether KuCoin is still “The People’s Exchange” in 2026. This in-depth KuCoin review breaks down fees, KYC, security, Proof of Reserves, supported coins, deposits/withdrawals, futures, margin, Earn and the platform’s standout free trading bots — plus who it’s best for (and who should avoid it).