The Intelligence Layer Beyond Your Own Book

Radar’s four new features give dealing and risk teams a clearer view of exposure, related accounts and positions held with liquidity providers. Real-time alerts and analysis of book switches help teams identify issues sooner and assess the financial impact of their routing decisions.

30% of broker P&L is being lost to only 1% of their clients. The future of risk management depends on identifying this small proportion of sharp and abusive traders capable of extracting millions while representing only a fraction of the client base. The result is a growing blind spot: brokers are trying to detect network-level behaviour using only account-level data.

Just 1% of winning retail trading accounts took home 66.5% of all client profits generated across the retail FX and CFD industry over the past year, according to new data shared with Finance Magnates by iSAM Securities. The figures come from Radar, iSAM Securities' risk analytics platform, which brokers use to monitor client trading activity, exposure, and profitability in real time.

Radar’s Exposure Monitor gives dealing and risk teams a real-time view of open symbol exposure against configured risk limits across trading platforms. Automated alerts and account-level drilldowns help teams quickly identify where exposure is building, when thresholds are breached and which logins are driving the position.

Radar’s new Book Switch Impact feature reveals the opportunity cost of A-Book decisions by showing the PnL brokers could have retained. This helps risk teams identify when a hedge is no longer paying off and when it may be time to switch a client back to B-Book.

Spec Markets has integrated iSAM Securities’ Radar and Apex to bring network-level risk intelligence and scalable execution controls into one connected ecosystem. The partnership gives its teams greater visibility and control as the broker expands its client base and trading volumes.

Technology stocks stabilised following a volatile week, while easing safe-haven demand pushed Treasury yields modestly higher. Brent crude climbed above $114 as continued attacks on Saudi Arabia heightened concerns over wider disruption to Middle Eastern energy supplies.

Optimism returned to technology stocks after SpaceX’s better-than-expected earnings revived confidence in AI investment, lifting Nasdaq futures and Asian equities. Meanwhile, oil remained elevated as continued attacks in the Strait of Hormuz sustained concerns over global energy supplies.

Asian technology stocks fell sharply as concerns over heavy AI spending and elevated valuations returned ahead of key earnings, including Netflix later today. Oil rose to $110 amid continued risks in the Strait of Hormuz, keeping inflation concerns firmly in focus.