Portrait of Edmund Hartwell, Senior Markets Critic at BestForex.io

Edmund Hartwell

Senior Markets Critic

Edmund Hartwell has spent over two decades observing the retail trading industry, focusing on institutional behaviour, capital allocation and corporate governance. Dry and unsentimental, he scrutinises the gap between brokers' press releases and their filings. He covers broker M&A, ownership structures and balance-sheet quality.

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Articles by Edmund Hartwell

Spinning coin balanced on glowing financial chart with courtroom scales in background — BestForex.io Broker Watch editorial exploring prediction markets regulatory uncertainty
Opinion

Plus500's Prediction-Markets Gamble: Forecast or Flutter?

Plus500 is booming on US prediction markets, branding event bets as regulated innovation. BestForex.io asks what happens when the regulators stop agreeing.