Exness and XM are smashing North Africa. But so too are other players in the region – most notably Olymptrade and ExpertOption.

BDSwiss was onboarding lots of clients from Europe offshore. Then it couldn’t. Now the broker is struggling and not paying withdrawals.

Easier payments mean the potential for losing business. Hard payments mean a bigger risk of reputation risk. So what do you do?

European regulators will probably ban event contracts, allowing US firms to dominate another market. Also we look at the Axi stockbroker deal.

Robinhood made over $2m in one week from events contracts. But what are events contracts, how do they work, and can brokers use them?

XTB continues to see huge numbers of new clients but with a decreasing ARPU. The firm is going big on investment products to market itself.