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Today is Thursday, the 29th of October, 2026, and these are our main stories.

The FTMO founder's exclusive interview with Finance Magnate's, Australian financial regulator on prediction markets and XTB's numbers.

Futures prop trading is gaining momentum, and FTMO is making a major push into the market.

But why did one of the industry's biggest CFD-based prop firms take a decade to enter futures? In an exclusive interview with Finance Magnates, FTMO's co-founders and co-CEOs Otakar Shufner and Marek Wasiczek discussed their futures launch.

ASIC banned binary options for retail clients in 2021 and extended that ban to October 2031.

The communications regulator, ACMA, blocked Polymarket in August 2025 as a prohibited gambling service.

Lastly, XTB's third quarter net profit rose fourfold from a year earlier to 213.7 million zloty, about $54 million.

It beat the average of five analysts' forecasts by 6.4%.

Today's Wednesday, the 28th of October, 2026, and these are our main stories.

GMO's million-dollar hacker bounty, plus 500's new U.S. futures, XTB's profit forecast, and brokers offering bets on AI companies.

To begin today, GMO Internet Group is offering up to $1 million for information leading to the identification and arrest of hackers who breached its trading server service.

The offer follows an attack in which hackers began publishing what they claimed was customer data after GMO refused a demand for around 8 billion yen, or approximately $50 million.

Plus500 is offering the products to institutional clients and partner brokers.

Webull plans to introduce Kalshi-listed crypto perpetual futures for eligible U.S. customers in November.

Turning to markets, analysts expect XTB to report third-quarter net profit of 200.8 million Polish zlotys, equivalent to around $51 million.

That would be less than half the 492.2 million zlotys recorded in the second quarter, but nearly four times the year-earlier result.

What's the actual mechanism connecting this to the broader AI trade, rather than just being a core weave problem?

Kathleen Brooks at XTB called it the AI trade's canary in the coal mine.

The worry is that Corweave's balance sheet stress is a preview of what happens across the sector if rates stay elevated.

And it's not contained.

Today's Thursday, the 8th of October, 2026, and these are our main stories.

XTB expands overnight U.S. stock trading.

4Trade reports higher revenue.

And NASDAQ backs one trading.

To begin today, XTB has started rolling out 24-hour weekday trading in selected U.S. shares, adding to the nearly 1,000 European stocks and ETFs already available on extended hours.

The Warsaw-listed broker is offering the service in stages, with its updated terms covering 582 U.S. stocks, including fractional shares.

XTB has also launched a tax-advantaged TBSZ investment account in Hungary.

The five-year account can become tax-free after five years, while XTB says it has no account fee and no commission on shares and ETFs up to €100,000 in monthly volume.

Really quickly I was promoted to being a director.

XTB's mentality is never to compromise compliance over business because that would break trust while scaling up.

How about AI?

I don't think AI can replace at least...

What makes you worried?

I'm concerned that...

Georgina Georgiou is the Managing Director and Head of Finance at XTB.

Bringing years of experience in finance, investment, regulation and strategic leadership to one of Europe's leading online investment firms.

Um, and as a result, that's also weighing on peers.

Um, we've got Plus500 down 8%, CMC about 6%, and XTB in Europe, which is about 5% lower today.

And lastly, I know you've been thinking about the pub chain Wetherspoons, and not just because it's a Friday.

What's been going on there?