New hybrid trading model aims to tackle one of the CFD industry’s biggest challenges: trust
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 21 September 2026 – New global trading infrastructure company BDX Markets has officially launched, unveiling a blockchain-powered trading ecosystem designed to bring greater transparency, visibility and participation to the rapidly growing global CFD trading industry.
Andy Ting, Investor, BDX Markets
Targeting key Asian and European markets, BDX Markets is positioning itself at the intersection of traditional online trading infrastructure and next-generation Web3-enabled financial systems.
The launch comes amid explosive growth in retail online trading across Asia, where millions of traders continue to use MT4 and MT5 trading platforms as their primary gateway into global financial markets. Industry analysts estimate the global online trading platform market is expected to exceed US$15 billion in coming years, driven by rising mobile trading participation and digital finance adoption across emerging economies.
BDX, short for Blockchain-Driven eXchange, was founded by traders and blockchain specialists seeking to solve what they believe is one of the industry's oldest and most persistent problems: a lack of transparency around how trading infrastructure operates behind the scenes.
BDX Markets investor Andy Ting said the idea for the platform emerged after years of firsthand experience within the trading industry.
"After years as a trader, I kept seeing the same issue emerge again and again. Traders often had very little visibility into what was happening once orders were placed," Ting said.
"In many parts of the industry, the infrastructure still operates like a black box. Traders can see the front-end experience, but very little of what happens behind it."
"The industry has grown enormously, but trust and transparency have not always evolved at the same pace."
Rather than attempting to replace traditional trading systems entirely, BDX Markets has adopted what it describes as a hybrid infrastructure model.
The platform continues to support the globally dominant MT5 trading environment familiar to millions of traders worldwide, while integrating blockchain-powered transparency and liquidity architecture around the existing trading experience.
The company believes this approach significantly reduces onboarding friction compared with fully decentralised trading platforms that require users to abandon conventional systems altogether.
"We are not trying to force traders to completely change the way they trade," Ting said.
"MT4 and MT5 remain deeply embedded across the global trading industry, particularly throughout Asia. Traders know these systems, they trust them and they are comfortable using them."
"Our approach is evolutionary rather than disruptive. We believe the future is about combining the familiarity and speed of traditional trading infrastructure with the transparency blockchain technology can provide."
At the centre of the BDX ecosystem is what the company calls its "on-chain transparency layer", designed to allow elements of trading activity and liquidity infrastructure to be recorded and referenced through blockchain systems.
The company says this infrastructure is intended to provide greater visibility around execution records and broader ecosystem activity.
BDX Markets has also launched the "BDX Vault", a blockchain-connected liquidity participation ecosystem allowing eligible participants to contribute to the platform's broader liquidity infrastructure.
The company believes this creates a new category within the trading ecosystem, where participants are no longer limited to simply being traders, but can also become stakeholders in the broader infrastructure environment.
"We believe the future trading ecosystem will be more transparent, more connected and more community-driven," Ting said.
"Blockchain infrastructure creates opportunities for greater accountability and visibility while still maintaining the efficiency traders expect from modern platforms."
The launch also comes as Southeast Asia rapidly emerges as one of the world's fastest-growing regions for digital finance adoption, mobile trading participation and blockchain engagement, particularly among younger, digitally-native investors and traders. Southeast Asian countries have become global leaders in crypto and blockchain adoption metrics in recent years.
BDX Markets says its long-term focus is on infrastructure innovation rather than competing purely on spreads, rebates or short-term trading incentives.
Its roadmap includes continued development of blockchain verification systems, internal liquidity infrastructure and scalable trading architecture designed to support global growth.
"We do not believe the future will be purely traditional finance or purely decentralised finance," Ting said.
"We believe the next generation of financial infrastructure will combine the best elements of both worlds."
"That is the future BDX is building toward."
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Babilou Cares 2026 brings together families, educators and community partners at 47 centres for coordinated activities spanning elderly welfare, sustainability, food security and kindness.
Little Footprints Preschool Involves All 47 Centres Nationwide for Community Outreach Day
Bringing Generations Together
Under intergenerational engagement, 16 Little Footprints centres, including its childcare centres at Punggol and Bedok Reservoir, worked with community sites operated by partners including TOUCH Community Services, NTUC Health and REACH Community Services to spend time with the elderly. Families travelled to these sites, where over 40 parents joined their children to lead stretching exercises, sing-alongs, storytelling and the creation of dementia-friendly cognitive activities designed to support memory, thinking and social engagement among seniors.
Supporting Families Through Food Security
Families across Little Footprints' Punggol 168 and Punggol 107 centres came together for a donation drive, collecting over 30kg of food and 20kg of textiles. These were redistributed to community shops and beneficiaries through partners including Food from the Heart and Cloop, and directly to lower-income families at rental flats. Alongside the collection, parents and children took part in food sustainability talks that introduced them to the systems behind what ends up on their plates.
Learning to Care for the Environment
For the environmental sustainability pillar, waste became the raw material. Families across 12 Little Footprints centres joined partners NParks, the Public Hygiene Council and NEA in neighbourhood and beach clean-ups, upcycling workshops and recycled art sessions, turning bottles, chopsticks and T-shirts into tote bags, garden tools, artwork and clean-up equipment.
In particular, Little Footprints' Balestier centre gathered 11 families to jointly upcycle and craft more than a dozen items, including coin boxes, flower vases, play boxes, decorations and shakers.
Practising Kindness in the Community
Lastly, kindness took many forms across 15 Little Footprints centres. At the Depot and Keat Hong 803 centres, over 70 parents gave out thank-you cards to hawkers, clinic staff and helpers around neighbourhood shopping centres. A mental wellness workshop was hosted in partnership with Heartfulness, and in the neighbourhoods surrounding each centre, families hand-delivered care packs to cleaners, security staff, hawkers and bus captains. This included 32 care packs distributed by the Thomson centre to hawkers and cleaners, as well as Milo and biscuit care packs distributed by Bukit Purmei centre to community cleaners.
At Jurong West 976 centre, the team also prepared 100 care packs, including packet drinks, biscuits, fruit, instant cereal and instant coffee. Staff and children gave out the care packs to elderly residents in the neighbourhood as part of the children's learning experience, helping them understand the importance of caring for and contributing to the community.
A Sustained Commitment to Community Engagement
Held annually across the wider Babilou Family Group network, Babilou Cares reflects a longer-term commitment to weaving community engagement into classroom practice year-round.
The Sustainable Education framework guides how children learn across four dimensions: emotional and physical safety, nature-based learning, inclusion and partnering with parents. Community engagement activities run through each of these, giving children opportunities to apply what they learn in the classroom to the world around them.
In 2025, the initiative raised $43,000 for Ground-Up Initiative, an organisation focused on sustainability and reconnecting people with nature. The funds directly supported the development of its new Kampung Kampus in Khatib, a living classroom where children, families, youths and educators engage in hands-on learning rooted in sustainable living and the kampung spirit.
In May 2024, closure day activities across Little Footprints centres raised $69,343 for World Vision, an international children's charity. The funds provided lunches, medicine, emergency food and vegetable seed packs for children and families in need, while helping children at Little Footprints build empathy for hungry and malnourished children, alongside a deeper sense of gratitude for their food and an early understanding of food sustainability.
The move away from a fundraising figure this year shifts the emphasis to the act of doing, on children, families and educators showing up together, in every neighbourhood, on the same day.
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Little Footprints Preschool
Little Footprints Preschool is a community-based preschool network offering infant care, playgroup, nursery and kindergarten programmes across 47 centres in Singapore's heartland neighbourhoods. It operates under Babilou Family Singapore, a subsidiary of Babilou Family Group based in France, which runs a network of over 1,000 nurseries worldwide. Its curriculum is delivered under the Sustainable Education framework and is mapped to the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) frameworks. All Little Footprints Preschool centres are appointed under the ECDA Partner Operator (POP) scheme. More information is available at https://littlefootprints.edu.sg.
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