eToro Trading Outage Blocked New Positions on Web and iOS
eToro suffered a trading disruption early Friday that left some customers unable to open new positions through its web and iOS applications for nearly an hour, while existing positions could…
FXTF Says Commodity-CFD Assets Were Outside Trust Protection Despite Client Disclosure
Goldenway Japan, the operator of FXTF, has disclosed a defect in the trust arrangement used to protect assets belonging to corporate customers with commodity CFD accounts, revealing that those assets…
What Is SWIFT and Does It Actually Move Money?
SWIFT is often described as the system that moves money around the world. That is convenient shorthand—and technically wrong. SWIFT moves authenticated financial instructions. The money moves when banks debit…
What Is a Prediction Market and How Does It Work?
A prediction market turns uncertainty into a tradable price. Instead of asking people what they think will happen, it lets them put money behind a specific outcome. A binary contract…
How Do Stablecoin Companies Make Money?
Circle, Tether and the PYUSD ecosystem show three different ways to monetize the same $1 promise A stablecoin company can give a user a token worth $1, charge no visible…
How Do Crypto Exchanges Make Money?
The fee on the trade is only the visible layer A crypto exchange looks simple from the outside: a trader buys Bitcoin, the venue charges a fee, and the exchange…
Forex Broker Licenses Explained: FCA, CySEC, ASIC and Offshore Regulators
Retail traders often treat a broker licence like a star rating: FCA is ‘strong,’ CySEC is ‘European,’ ASIC is ‘strict,’ and offshore licences are placed in a lower tier. That…
Crypto’s $1.14 Billion Liquidation Wave: What It Means
More than $1.14 billion of crypto futures positions were liquidated over the 24 hours to October 8, with another $172 million wiped out in the latest hour as Bitcoin fell…
What Is Embedded Finance? Examples From Apps You Already Use
Embedded finance is what happens when a non-financial app quietly becomes the place where you pay, get paid, borrow, hold money or buy insurance. The important part is not the…
$252M ETH Whale Nears Liquidation as Another Trader Builds $26.5M Crypto Short Book
A crypto whale holding 98,089 ETH in leveraged long positions worth approximately $252.3 million has moved within striking distance of two major liquidation levels, just as another large trader built…