CFTC Tells Prediction Markets: If It's a Derivative, Don't Make It Look Like a Bet Prediction market operators and the CFTC have been defending event contracts in court and publicly as federally regulated derivatives rather than sports bets. https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/cftc-tells-prediction-markets-if-its-a-derivative-dont-make-it-look-like-a-bet/?tg=1786132860

Channel
Finance Magnates
@financemagnatesnews
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
3,909subscribers
+18 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001216798713 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @financemagnatesnews |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 17 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 14 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 17 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/financemagnatesnews |
Topic
Crypto & trading — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 14 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 51% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Sept 2026, 03:58 | 3,909 | +4 |
| 12 Sept 2026, 23:59 | 3,905 | +1 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 02:36 | 3,904 | +4 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 01:40 | 3,900 | -2 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 21:12 | 3,902 | -1 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 20:34 | 3,903 | +4 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 05:33 | 3,899 | +5 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 06:58 | 3,894 | +3 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 03:07 | 3,891 | -7 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 19:04 | 3,898 | +7 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 13:11 | 3,891 | +3 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 23:04 | 3,888 | -3 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 05:31 | 3,891 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 05:28 | 3,891 | first reading |
Engagement
40 posts held, back to 4 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 4 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 40 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
Bybit Uses Tokenised Equities as Underlyings for Structured Yield Bybit is expanding the role of tokenised equities on its platform by using more xStocks as underlyings for its Dual Asset structured product, allowing users to take short-duration exposure to token... https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/exchange/bybit-uses-tokenised-equities-as-underlyings-for-structured-yield/?tg=1786124844
Malta Regulator Flags Surge in Crypto Scams Exploiting MiCA Transition The Malta Financial Services Authority has warned consumers about an increase in fraudulent schemes targeting crypto-asset holders during the European Union's transition to the Markets in Crypto-As... https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/malta-regulator-flags-surge-in-crypto-scams-exploiting-mica-transition/?tg=1786119000
Wintermute Wins U.S. Broker-Dealer Approval, Expanding Its Wall Street Ambitions Wintermute, one of the largest algorithmic trading firms in digital assets, has registered as a broker-dealer with the Securities and Exchange Commission and become a member of FINRA, moving deeper... https://www.financemagnates.com/institutional-forex/wintermute-wins-us-broker-dealer-approval-expanding-its-wall-street-ambitions/?tg=178…
XTB Signs Three-Year FC Porto Shirt Sponsorship Following Napoli Partnership XTB has signed a global partnership with Portuguese football club FC Porto. Under the agreement, the online trading and investment platform will become the sleeve sponsor of the club's men's first-... https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/xtb-signs-three-year-fc-porto-shirt-sponsorship-following-napoli-partnership/?tg=1786104723
CME Shrinks Its Contracts Again. Will That Pull Retail Away From CFDs? CME Group's planned E-nano equity index futures removes one of the practical barriers that has kept some retail traders in contracts for difference: the minimum size of an exchange-traded position. https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/analysis/cme-shrinks-its-contracts-again-will-that-pull-retail-away-from-cfds/?tg=1786096477
Are Trading Patterns in Europe Shifting? Lessons from the Gold Surge. For many years, Europe has been one of the most balanced retail CFD markets, with trading activity spread across a wide range of asset classes. https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/products/are-trading-patterns-in-europe-shifting-lessons-from-the-gold-surge/?tg=1786095003
The CFD Payments Lab: Why Global Brokers Are Testing the Future in Australia Australia has long been feted as an innovation hub. While homegrown success stories such as Atlassian, Canva, and Airwallex have demonstrated the country's ability to build world-class technology b... https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/the-cfd-payments-lab-why-global-brokers-are-testing-the-future-in-australia/?tg=1786078281
The Metric Brokers Use to Track Engagement Also Tracks User Demoralisation A new Institute for Family Studies survey, reported by Bloomberg, found that 64% of men aged 18-29 who trade stocks daily describe themselves as failures, a rate nearly identical to daily gamblers. https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/the-metric-brokers-use-to-track-engagement-also-tracks-user-demoralisation/?tg=1786043146
Credit Derivatives Overtake Cash Credit Trading on Tradeweb Tradeweb’s credit derivatives average daily volume rose 101.2% year-on-year in July, pushing derivatives activity above cash credit trading for the month. https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/credit-derivatives-overtake-cash-credit-trading-on-tradeweb/?tg=1786033200
XM Joins Retail Brokers Expanding Seven-Day Gold CFD Trading XM has launched GOLD24-7, a gold trading instrument that allows clients to trade the metal seven days a week. The launch places the broker among a growing number of retail firms offering weekend ac... https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/xm-joins-retail-brokers-expanding-seven-day-gold-cfd-trading/?tg=1786027028
Mini-SPX Options Hit Record at Cboe, Same-Day Trading Share Tops 66% Cboe’s mini-SPX options reached record monthly average daily volume in July as same-day contracts accounted for a record 66.2% of activity in the exchange’s flagship SPX options market. https://www.financemagnates.com/institutional-forex/mini-spx-options-hit-record-at-cboe-same-day-trading-share-tops-66/?tg=1786023450
Showing the 12 most recent of 40 posts we hold for @financemagnatesnews. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
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Telegram ranks this channel #26 of 89 here — alongside 88 others — read 2 September 2026
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Telegram ranks this channel #54 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 9 September 2026
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Telegram ranks this channel #66 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 18 September 2026
This channel appears in 5 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 17 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Finance Magnates” (@financemagnatesnews), 3,909 subscribers as measured 17 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/financemagnatesnews.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.