Globalonline interest in FX/CFD brokers fell 4.2% in February from a January peak,settling at 38.5 million in total broker visibility across 49 brokers and 120countries tracked by FMIntelligence. Despite the monthly pullback, the reading remained 33.5%above February 2025 levels, pointing to continued expansion in the industry'sorganic footprint rather than a structural retreat.Join the inaugural Finance Magnates Singapore Summit 2026, which will bring together brokers, fintechs, banks, EMIs, wealth managers, and hedge funds across APAC.Global Broker InterestFalls 4.2% After January Peak, Europe Holds 43% ShareEurope held43% of all broker-directed online interest globally, with 16.6 million in totalvisibility, making it the industry's largest region by a wide margin. NorthAmerica followed at 20.6% and Asia-Pacific at 23.5%. Africa was the only regionwhere visibility also fell year-on-year, declining 12.2%.OANDA heldthe top position in all six geographic regions tracked by FM Intelligence inFebruary, accounting for 36.1% of global broker online visibility and 13.9million in estimated monthly interest. No otherbroker in the dataset ranked first in more than one region. OANDA'scross-regional dominance held even as its absolute visit counts fellmonth-on-month in five of six regions, a dynamic partly explained by FTMO'sacquisition of OANDA in early 2025 and the subsequent transition of its prop trading clients to theFTMO brand.Thesharpest competitive shift in the February data was Capital.com's rapidrepositioning toward continental Europe. The broker's German visibility rose231% month-on-month, from 147,000 to 485,000, making Germany its largest singlemarket globally. Italian visibility climbed 56% and French visibility rose 45%.Thatexpansion came alongside a 60% drop in the broker's US presence, consistentwith Capital.com's broader pushinto new regulated markets across Europe and beyond. At the same time, XTB lost 402,000visits in Germany alone, a 43.7% single-month decline that cut its Europeanshare from 15.3% to 11.1%.Elsewhere,Forex.com was the only top-tier broker to grow in both the US and Canada,adding US visits and nearly doubling its Canadian presence. Dukascopy postedthe dataset's largest year-on-year gain at 285% in global visibility. Earlier FMIntelligence analysis linking web traffic to actual CFD volumes adds weight to what thesevisibility shifts may mean at the trading desk level, and the broader industrycontext of active CFDaccounts exceeding 6 million in Q4 2025 underscores the scale of the competitivebattle these visibility numbers reflect.Thefull February 2026 FM Intelligence analysis, covering regional breakdowns,individual broker rankings across 120 countries, country-level heat maps, andcompetitive positioning data, is available on the FMIntelligence Portal.This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.