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Apex Trader Funding, Tradeify, Bulenox and My Funded Futures have removed the monthly evaluation fee for new purchases this year. At the same time, CME, the exchange whose data a trader needs to see quotes, still bills prop firms as before - every month.
In a report dated November 10, the Japanese holding company SoftBank (one of the world's largest technology investors) disclosed that back in August it had pledged 87 million Intel shares - about 1.6% of all outstanding shares of the chipmaker. It has already received $7.4 billion against the collateral.
India's Enforcement Directorate conducted raids on November 4 and 5 at three offices in Bengaluru. The country's largest crypto exchange by turnover, CoinDCX, and the derivatives platform Delta Exchange India came under scrutiny: they are suspected of circumventing currency legislation.
The pair reached 159.95 - right up against the round 160 mark and the highest since September 2. Japanese Finance Ministry currency official Atsushi Mimura said markets should not forget about intervention risks, and the rate pulled back from that zone.
The Winklevoss brothers' crypto exchange handed over its UK and European operations to Singapore-based payments company KAST. The deal amount is less than $10 million, even though the divisions were bought mainly for their licenses.
The euro against the dollar has fallen to its lowest level in a year and a half, while the DXY dollar index has risen to 103.08 - also an 18-month high. By the European session, the pair had recovered part of the decline and is holding around 1.1090.
The main US securities market regulator filed a brief in Manhattan court on November 9 asking the judge not to halt trading in perpetual futures on US stocks. Cboe and Citadel Securities filed the lawsuit against the CFTC - now both agencies are against them.
Japanese producer output prices rose 7.1% year-on-year in October instead of the expected 6.5%. This increases pressure on the Bank of Japan to raise the rate on December 17-18 - the third time in a calendar year, something that has not happened since 1989.
On November 12, Binance announced that options on commodity assets (gold contracts, where settlement is in crypto) are switching to the same settlement price methodology that already works for crypto options. The rule applies to contracts expiring on November 23 at 17:00 New York time, i.e. November 24 at 01:00 MSK, and to all subsequent ones.
Japan's largest broker Nomura is in preliminary talks to sell Laser Digital, its crypto business for institutional clients. London-based Marex Group is named among possible buyers. Bloomberg reported this on November 11.
Korea's financial regulator (FSC) will issue a document that will allow crypto exchanges to halt deposits and withdrawals even before a hack is confirmed. Previously, blocking withdrawals without clear evidence of an incident was not allowed.
Altcoins are falling faster than Bitcoin itself, which is why BTC's share of total market capitalization has approached 61%. The indicator has not held above this level even once since August 2025.
India's oldest crypto exchange Unocoin confirmed a server hack. Analysts see emptied wallets on the blockchain, while the exchange itself says customer funds are safe.
On the morning of November 12 in Hong Kong, shares of Alibaba (ticker 9988.HK) and Tencent (700.HK) fell by about 5%. The reason was the preparation of new US rules: Chinese AI companies are to be banned from remotely using advanced chips via data centers outside the US and China.
Index provider MSCI (the company that compiles global stock indices used by thousands of funds) has confirmed: after the close of trading on November 30, shares of Strategy, Metaplanet and Upexi will be removed from its indices. For Strategy, this means forced selling by funds that hold it only because it is in the index.
The Office for National Statistics (UK's national statistics service) publishes its preliminary estimate of third-quarter GDP. Consensus is growth of 0.7% quarter-on-quarter versus 0.5% in the second quarter, with an annual rate of 1.9% versus 1.4%. GBP/USD approaches the release around 1.3275 - the lowest since mid-October.
XAU/USD fell to $3,985 per ounce - the second decline in a row. The trigger is October US inflation: after the report, futures price a Fed rate hike at the December meeting as a done deal.
The board is preparing to fire the founder and the only CEO in the company's history and is already selecting a candidate. The stock, which closed Wednesday in positive territory, plunged to $157 in the evening session.
DXY (dollar index, the dollar's exchange rate against a basket of currencies) reached 103.048 during the Asian session on Thursday - for the first time since early April 2025. In the previous session it gained 0.7% after US inflation came in above forecast.
The monthly subscription for the evaluation on a $100,000 account costs $330 at list price, and $165 with the active coupon from the partner catalog. The $130 activation fee has been abolished, and the minimum evaluation period has been cut from five trading days to three.
Glassnode in a report dated November 11 calculated: the volume of the largest stablecoins (coins with an exchange rate pegged to the dollar) shrank by $14.2 billion over 30 days. It only fell more sharply in the bearish 2022.
360X, a platform of the Deutsche Börse group, has launched tokenized versions of all 40 DAX index securities. Siemens or Allianz can now be bought even at night on Sunday, when the Frankfurt exchange is closed.
The payment service Square, through whose terminals and cash registers ordinary stores and cafes accept money, has opened Bitcoin payment acceptance to American retail outlets. The announcement appeared on November 11 at around 19:00 Moscow time.
On November 10, miners transferred 2077 BTC to exchanges, and about 97% of this volume came from a single pool - Antpool. The usual daily flow from miners is 16 times smaller.
