Tagged: trading

September 10, 2025 @ 11:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD) has been focused on retail finance, bringing together trading tools, AI-driven insights, and prediction markets. From enabling active traders at the HOOD Summit 2025 to expanding into sports outcomes and launching AI features in the United Kingdom, the company is… Read More

September 2, 2025 @ 12:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

QCP Trading Pte. Ltd., the over-the-counter (OTC) spot digital payment tokens (DPT) trading arm of QCP Group, is pleased to announce that it has been granted a Major Payment Institution (MPI) License by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The development enables QCP Trading to… Read More

September 1, 2025 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight has recently issued an advisory regarding the foreign board of trade (FBOT) registration framework for non-U.S. “entities legally organized and operating outside the United States that seek to provide persons physically located in the United States… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On August 12, 2025, eToro (NASDAQ: ETOR), a global trading and investing platform, announced an expansion of its crypto-assets offerings for U.S. users, now providing access to over 100 cryptocurrencies alongside equities, options, and ETFs. This milestone, coupled with the company’s second-quarter financial results for 2025,… Read More

August 9, 2025 @ 9:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trumid, a financial technology company and fixed income electronic trading platform, announced trade volume and user participation highlights for July 2025. According to an announcement from Trumid, here are the July updates: Trumid’s monthly market steady performance in 2025 “carried into July, driven by deeper… Read More

August 8, 2025 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

eToro Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: ETOR), a trading and investing platform, has announced how the company is harnessing artificial intelligence to enhance social investing. eToro is launching a suite of AI tools that will “transform social investing by creating a community-built marketplace for investing built on… Read More

August 6, 2025 @ 6:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca Markets aims to democratize access to global financial markets. The company’s latest updates showcase a series of advancements that reinforce Alpaca’s mission to empower developers, traders, and businesses with seamless, scalable trading solutions. From introducing fixed-income trading to forging strategic partnerships and securing significant… Read More

August 3, 2025 @ 2:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Gemini, which provides a cryptocurrency exchange and serves as a custodian, has announced an expansion of its tokenized stock offerings for customers in the European Union. The latest batch of tokenized stocks, or dShares, includes names such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD),… Read More

July 28, 2025 @ 12:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BME has presented the Playbook Spain T+1, a document that compiles the conclusions reached by the Spanish task force on the transition to the T+1 settlement cycle. The migration project to T+1 involves “reducing the period between the execution of a trade and its settlement.”… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trojan on Solana, a Telegram trading bot, announced it has surpassed $25 billion in total trading volume and now serves “a community of over 2 million users.” These figures solidify Trojan’s position as a significant force in onchain trading, particularly within the Solana ecosystem. Since… Read More

July 18, 2025 @ 11:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Elon Musk’s vision to transform X, formerly Twitter, into an all-encompassing “super app” is taking a leap forward with the introduction of in-app trading and investment features. According to now former X CEO Linda Yaccarino, the platform is poised to integrate financial services seamlessly, allowing… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 2:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trumid, a fixed income electronic trading platform, has shared its trade volume and user participation highlights for June and the second quarter of 2025, reinforcing its position as a key player in the credit trading ecosystem. The company’s approach, which combines technology with market expertise, has… Read More

July 15, 2025 @ 12:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A long-simmering legal battle between veteran Chicago floor traders and CME Group, the world’s largest derivatives marketplace, finally reached the courtroom. Nearly 4,000 traders, once the lifeblood of Chicago’s iconic trading pits, are seeking over $2 billion in damages in a class-action lawsuit that accuses… Read More

July 14, 2025 @ 10:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cboe Europe, operator of the largest pan-European stock exchange by value traded and a division of Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), announced its plans to launch a retail-focused trading service on its Lit order book designed to enhance execution outcomes for retail investors trading stocks… Read More

July 11, 2025 @ 6:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As institutional demand for secure and capital-efficient trading continues to grow, FalconX is expanding Prime Connect—their dedicated and secure off-exchange settlement infrastructure for Direct Market Access (DMA)—with support for Ceffu. Clients can now access Binance liquidity while “keeping funds safeguarded in custody through Ceffu’s MirrorX… Read More

July 7, 2025 @ 6:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced that its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) subsidiary “processed through its Government Securities Division (GSD) a new peak volume of USD$11.8 Trillion in cleared transactions on June… Read More

July 6, 2025 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kraken has recently rolled out significant updates that strengthen its platform’s offerings, enhance user experience, and reinforce its commitment to security and compliance. These developments include support for USD Coin (USDC) deposits and withdrawals on the Sonic network, a collaboration with the U.S. Secret Service… Read More

July 5, 2025 @ 2:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets platform Kraken has recently made significant strides in expanding its offerings, strengthening its compliance framework, and aiding law enforcement in combating crypto-related crime. These developments, announced in late June and early July 2025, underscore Kraken’s commitment to bridging traditional finance with the crypto… Read More

July 4, 2025 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a fast-evolving financial landscape, access to global markets remains a significant challenge for investors in the Middle East, according to an update from Alpaca. Traditional brokerage systems, bogged down by manual processes and lengthy onboarding timelines, have often limited the ability of everyday investors… Read More

July 4, 2025 @ 9:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets exchange Gemini has taken a significant step toward merging traditional finance (TradFi) with decentralized finance (DeFi) by launching a new batch of tokenized stocks for European Union investors. Announced on July 3, 2025, this release includes U.S. equities such as Tesla (TSLA), NVIDIA… Read More