FX and CFDs industry news was led this week by a number of changes in the C-Suites of various brokers and B2B providers to the sector, including the “top jobs” at each of Your Bourse and Neomarkets.
We also got to see Q2 results from a number of firms in the sector, including Robinhood and XTB, giving a fairly good sample of how online brokers have fared over the past few months, what’s hot, what’s not, and where things are headed.
Some of the most read and commented-on FX/CFD industry news stories to appear over the past seven days on FNG included:
Top FX and CFDs industry news stories this week
China’s CGS shuts ProsperUs Singapore CFDs unit amid consolidation. Singapore business site The Business Times is reporting that local CFDs broker ProsperUs (at website prosperus.asia) is being shut, as part of a consolidation being made by parent China Galaxy Securities and its main Singapore unit, CGS International.
LoopFX liquidity network launches with first trades. London based institutional peer-to-peer FX spot trading startup LoopFX has announced that it has officially launched as a live FX liquidity network, successfully matching clients’ trades within State Street’s FX Connect, the market-leading execution platform. Clients already signed include Schroders, Royal London Asset Management, State Street Investment Management and RBC Capital Markets.
CFDs broker Aetos relinquishes FCA license to focus on Australia, offshore. FNG has learned that Retail FX and CFDs brokerage group Aetos has given up its FCA license, granted to UK subsidiary Aetos Capital Group (UK) Limited. Aetos UK had held an FCA license since 2016. The Aetos UK arm had not been very active for the past few years. In 2024 Aetos UK posted just £479K in Revenues, although that was up from £399K in 2023.
iFOREX becomes back-of-shirt sponsor for Ferencvárosi TC. Retail FX and CFDs broker iFOREX has announced the signing of an agreement designating iFOREX Europe as the Official Back of Shirt Sponsor of Ferencvárosi TC (FTC) – Hungary’s most decorated football club and the newly crowned 2025 Nemzeti Bajnokság I champions, after lifting their record-extending 36th title in May.
Financial and operating results posted this week by online brokers include:
- XTB revenue flat ($155M) but Profits up 11% ($58M) in Q2 2025.
- Robinhood revenues rise 7% ($989M) and profits up 15% ($386M) in bounceback Q2 2025.
- CFI sees record $1.51 trillion in client trading volumes for Q2-2025.
Top FX industry executive moves this week
❑ Exclusive: Elina Pedersen takes over as CEO of Your Bourse from Andrey Vedikhin.
❑ CFI Financial names Omar Khaled as CMO.
❑ Saxo UK exec Dan Squires moves to Abu Dhabi to take CCO role at ADSS.
❑ Exclusive: Brokeree marketing head Anton Sokolov departs.
❑ Exclusive: NAGA Group Head of User Acquisition Stanislav Galandzovskyi departs.
❑ SquaredFinancial bizdev head Dominique El Khoury leaves for CEO job at startup broker Neomarkets.
❑ Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad replaces Paul Klanschek as Co-CEO of Bitpanda.
❑ Scope Markets hires PU Prime exec Mohanad Yakout as Senior Market Analyst MENA.
❑ FYNXT hires StoneX veteran Camila Pinto as Commercial Director for UK and LATAM.
