Every founder eyeing the forex space eventually hits the same fork in the road: build the brokerage from scratch, or buy your way into the market with ready-made infrastructure. It sounds like a technical question. It isn't. It's a business strategy question dressed up as a tech one.

The global retail trading boom hasn't slowed down. Lower entry costs, regulatory frameworks maturing across new markets, and a generation of traders comfortable doing everything from a phone have all widened the addressable market for new brokers. Naturally, more entrepreneurs want in.