An investor group led by Marc Joppeck, which also owns global trading brand INFINOX, has today announced the acquisition of Skilling.com (Skilling), a leading European online brokerage, subject to final regulatory approval. The move marks a significant step in the group’s long-term vision to build a diversified financial services portfolio, strengthen its presence in one of the world’s most competitive trading regions, and enhance client access to innovative trading solutions.

CMC Markets, a global leader in online trading for retail, professional and institutional clients, has successfully completed the private placement of a shareholding in the UK using distributed-ledger technology (DLT). The use of a digital token to represent the shareholding marks a new phase in the company’s digital strategy.

BitGo MENA FZE (“BitGo MENA”), the digital asset infrastructure company, announced that it has secured a Broker-Dealer licence from the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). The license enables BitGo MENA to provide regulated digital asset trading and intermediation services to institutional clients across the region and supports the company’s continued global expansion.

Quoreka, a leading provider of energy and commodity trading risk management (E/CTRM) solutions, today announced the launch of the Quoreka Sentiment Index (QIndex), an AI-driven commodity sentiment index designed to give market participants a real-time pulse on global sentiment. Powered by Barchart’s comprehensive news and data feeds, QIndex leverages the latest in AI and large language models (LLMs) to measure, analyze and quantify sentiment in daily news coverage and generate confidence-based sentiment scores for key commodities.

Global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), today announced that it has delivered full ISO 20022 cash processing capabilities for its global bank and broker/dealer clients. This positions clients well ahead of the November 2025 Swift Standard Release.

Deriv, a global leader in online trading today announced it has obtained a licence from the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) for its newly formed UAE subsidiary, Deriv Capital Contracts & Currencies L.L.C. This marks Deriv’s strategic expansion across the region, further enabling its mission to offer regulated online trading services in one of the world’s most dynamic financial hubs.

TMX Group today announced it has acquired Verity, a leading buy-side investment research management system, data, and analytics provider. The acquisition enhances TMX Datalinx's client offering, strengthening its position in delivering global investment-grade data, insights, and investment workflow tools across equities, fixed income, and private assets.

Addepar announced the opening of its new office in Switzerland marking its latest step in their mission to connect the global investment ecosystem

Raisin launches its investment offering in the Netherlands, marking the first international rollout of its digital wealth management outside Germany

InstrumentiX, an award-winning provider of trading infrastructure monitoring and analytics, today announced that Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a global technology leader in design, test and network visibility solutions, has acquired a strategic stake in the company. Keysight’s targeted investment underscores InstrumentiX’s market-leading innovation and deepens the companies’ strategic partnership, accelerating development and expanding adoption of advanced monitoring solutions across capital markets.

21X, the operator of the first EU-regulated on-chain trading and settlement system, and DekaBank, the securities services provider of the German Savings Banks Finance Group (Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe), today announced the successful completion of an on-chain trade on the Polygon testnet. This marks a critical step forward in their collaboration to integrate and expand tokenized asset capabilities for their clients.

Aark Digital the largest 1000x perp-dex on Arbitrum has announced its updated roadmap, highlighting both its rapid token growth and product expansion. Following an all-time high in trading activity, the platform is preparing to introduce new layers of liquidity, gamification, and leverage, positioning itself as the most advanced environment for high-frequency decentralized trading.

LSEG Risk Intelligence has announced the launch of World-Check On Demand to transform the way data is created and delivered

BofA is unveiling Capital Markets Insights on the CashPro® App, providing a centralized view of market and issuance data relating to the Investment Grade Capital Markets – including the proprietary AI-driven TED

Duco introduces AI-powered rules that anyone can build, automated ingestion for any file format, and real time assurance for T+1 settlement readiness