It comes amid reports that prediction market traders face the same poor odds as retail CFD investors. Polymarket and Parcl are moving real estate into onchain prediction markets, creating a new venue where traders can speculate on the direction of housing prices without touching physical property or long-term mortgages.

It comes amid reports that prediction market traders face the same poor odds as retail CFD investors.

Payments have shifted from a technical process to a user behaviour, with programmable money, AI-driven fraud prevention and interoperability shaping the next phase of payments.

Retail trading platforms that offer passive investing with small minimums could be the biggest beneficiaries of this trend.

CFD brokers will consume data from the new service as transparency rules reshape market structure. Europe's securities regulator kicked off the search for a company to aggregate over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trading data across the continent, launching what it calls the first Consolidated Tape Provider selection for this asset class.