At some point your largest partner will ask for something you did not plan to give them. They want their own brand, their own portal, their own name on the client’s statement. Sometimes they frame it as a request. Sometimes they mention that another broker already offered it. This is a good problem, and most … Continued
Ask a partner why they left their last broker and you will rarely hear that the rate was too low. You will hear that the money came late, or that it came after they chased someone for it, or that one month it was short and nobody could explain why. Partner commission is income. An … Continued
Most brokers treat the IB program as a page on the website. Publish the commission table, add a signup form, wait. A few partners register, two of them send clients, and the rest never log in a second time. Partner acquisition works the way client acquisition works. You have to know who you are looking … Continued
There are two ways brokers set IB commission. The first is to look at what three competitors publish and land somewhere in the middle. The second is to work out what a lot of volume is worth to the business and decide how much of that you are willing to give away to get it. … Continued
Most brokerages measure their marketing down to two decimal places and then run the sales floor on habit. Leads land in a shared pool, whoever opens them first keeps them, and the ones nobody calls back sit there until the phone number is worthless. The CRM usually gets blamed for this. The CRM is doing … Continued
Every brokerage produces numbers by the millions — ticks, trades, deposits, clicks. Very few brokerages are actually run by numbers. The typical operating rhythm is a marketing report over here, a platform report over there, a payments spreadsheet somewhere else, and decisions made on the metric that shouts loudest that week — usually registrations, occasionally volume, and … Continued
Infrastructure is the part of a brokerage nobody thinks about until 8:29 a.m. on a nonfarm payrolls Friday, when it becomes the only part anyone thinks about. Where your trade server physically sits, how it reaches your liquidity providers, and what happens when a component fails are decisions that quietly shape your execution quality, your … Continued
For most of the past five years, “prop firm” has effectively meant “CFD prop firm.” The model was built on contracts for difference: forex pairs, indices, metals, and crypto CFDs, usually traded on MetaTrader, usually priced against a liquidity feed the firm controlled. That version of the industry made a lot of operators wealthy — … Continued
Every vendor deck in this industry now has an AI slide. Every conference panel has an AI segment. And most brokerage operators we talk to have the same private reaction: they cannot tell which of it is real. Somewhere between “AI will run your dealing desk” and “it’s just a chatbot,” there is an actual … Continued
For brokers serving the Middle East, North Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, or the Muslim diaspora anywhere in the world, the Islamic account is not a nice-to-have. It is the difference between being a viable option and not being considered at all. Roughly a quarter of the world’s population follows a faith whose financial principles prohibit … Continued
