OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
Bright Trading review: the SIPC exclusion it puts…
Verdict. Bright Trading is a FINRA-member broker-dealer, not a challenge shop. You sit the SIE and the Series 57, join a Nevada LLC as a Class B member and post your own deposit. It suits…
Great Point Capital review: whose money is in…
Verdict. Great Point Capital is the rarest thing in this category: a genuine SEC-registered broker-dealer, FINRA-approved since 2001, filing audited financials and holding $85.2m of net capital against a $126,600 requirement. It suits an experienced…
FinCEN’s $125m UBS order makes FX wire data…
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) assessed a $125 million civil money penalty against UBS Financial Services Inc. (UBSFS) on August 3, 2026 for willful Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) violations, and the remedy attached to…
Seven Points Capital review: the prop firm you…
Verdict: Seven Points Capital is not an evaluation shop. It sells no challenge, charges no fee and takes no capital from traders — it hires them, and it is a broker-dealer registered with the SEC…
Prop firm regulation: where the perimeter actually bites
Prop firm regulation is not one perimeter but five, and most funded-account programmes sit outside all of them by design: participants are not clients, challenge fees are not client money, and the accounts are simulated,…
Finfluencer regulation hardens: licences, charges, takedowns
Thesis: between May 2024 and mid-2026, finfluencer oversight moved from warning letters to criminal charges, coordinated international arrest weeks and, in the UAE, a mandatory licence — leaving brokers, platforms and the influencers themselves facing…
Best execution splits EU, UK and US FX…
Best execution is back at the centre of foreign-exchange (FX) supervision in 2026: the European Union has replaced its scrapped trade-by-trade reporting with a principles-based order-execution-policy regime, the United Kingdom deleted the same reports in…
Aegis Capital Fined $1.1m for Potentially Excessive Trading…
FINRA has imposed a $1.1 million fine for Aegis Capital's supervisory violations as well as $1.7 million in restitution to 68 customers whose accounts were potentially excessively and unsuitably traded by the firm’s representatives. In…