2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1008+ words) Every comparison table ranks providers on licensing, settlement and fees. Those are the easy questions. The ones that decide whether the system survives contact with real customers sit a layer below, in operational policy that most providers don’t publish. Search…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (416+ words) CME Group is timing its entry into cash Treasury clearing for the final weeks before the SEC mandate, opening a new clearing revenue line and extending the margin economics around its interest-rate futures franchise. CME Securities Clearing will begin operating…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (285+ words) Complaints from retail investors to the Autorité des Marchés Financiers mediator rose 37% in 2025, the sharpest annual increase since the mediator began tracking the data. The AMF mediation service received 3,010 new requests and closed 2,772 cases, up 41% from 2024. Its backlog also rose…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (446+ words) Deb Schoneman, president at Piper Sandler, said "demand for our industry-leading U.S. equity research and execution capabilities continues to grow internationally." "This approval is a critical step in our broader European expansion," Allen said. Piper Sandler Companies has received French regulatory…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (398+ words) Kraken has added Smart Grid, an automated range-trading tool, to its desktop application for eligible Pro users. The exchange is entering a crowded grid-bot category by focusing on backtesting, saved configurations and parameters that can be changed after launch. Smart…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (367+ words) U.S. Bank has placed a dollar-backed token, USBDC, on a public blockchain while retaining conventional banking controls, including the ability to freeze assets and reverse transfers. The bank completed a live cross-border payment between its entities in North America and Europe…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (654+ words) Financial centers should not "engage in a race to the bottom to attract financial firms," Pötzsch said. Firms that exploit the gaps between them should not be able to scale that arbitrage across the single market. "We cannot let that…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (595+ words) Sergei Grigoriev said exclusively to FinanceMagnates.com that cFinancial was designed around the operational needs of brokers, and that its objective is to "remove unnecessary complexity and cost from the liquidity setup." Match-Trade Chief Executive Michał Karczewski warned in April…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (430+ words) Visa said more than 160 stablecoin-linked card programmes were live on its network in the fiscal second quarter, with payment volume up nearly 200% year over year. Stablecoin-linked card programmes are creating a working-capital problem as they grow: operators must fund Visa…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (655+ words) The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) expects its new cryptoasset regime to generate a net benefit of just GBP 120 million. FM Intelligence said today (Tuesday) its analysis found GBP 1.435 billion in modeled benefits against GBP 1.315 billion in costs over a…...