What Is an Offshore Forex Broker? Risks Explained
An offshore forex broker is not automatically a scam, and an onshore licence does not automatically make a broker safe. The real issue is regulatory perimeter: which legal entity signed…
How Passkeys Could Replace Passwords and OTPs in Banking
Passkeys can remove the two most phishable objects in digital banking – reusable passwords and manually entered one-time codes. But replacing login credentials is easier than replacing payment authorization, account…
How Neobanks Make Money Without Branches
Branchless banking removes a visible cost center, but it does not create a business model. The economics come from interchange, deposits, lending, subscriptions, wealth, foreign exchange and paid liquidity—and the…
How Does Visa Make Money if It Does Not Issue Credit Cards?
Visa’s logo sits on nearly five billion payment credentials, but Visa does not lend the cardholder the money, set the card’s APR or absorb the consumer’s default. Its business is…
This Day in Crypto History: $19 Billion Crypto Crash, FTX Fraud Testimony and Ether’s Commodity Status
October 10 has produced some of cryptocurrency’s most consequential developments, including the largest recorded crypto liquidation event, major regulatory decisions, and revelations about one of the industry’s biggest financial scandals.On…
Bitquery Finds 81% of Meteora Pools Drained as Solana Bots Dominate Trading
More than 81% of approximately 1.02 million liquidity pools launched through Meteora’s DAMM v2 protocol on Solana were drained of nearly all their SOL liquidity, according to a new Bitquery…
Ledger Investigates CryptoBilis Wallet Losses as Researchers Trace Up to $86M
Hardware wallet maker Ledger is investigating reports of cryptocurrency losses involving customers who purchased devices from Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis, while independent on-chain researchers have linked tens of millions of…
How Forex Brokers Hedge Client Trades
A retail forex broker does not necessarily send every customer order into the institutional market. The more common process is portfolio risk management: collect client flow, offset buyers against sellers,…
How to Buy Bitcoin With the Lowest Fees in 2026
The cheapest way to buy bitcoin is rarely the button labelled ‘Buy Bitcoin.’ Your real cost is the combination of funding fees, trading fees, the spread built into the quoted…
What Is A-Book and B-Book Execution in Forex?
A-Book and B-Book are industry shorthand for what a forex or CFD broker does with the market risk created by a client’s trade. They are not official regulatory classifications, and…