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Crypto platforms offer leveraged US stock bets as regulators play catch-up

Bitget representatives meet traders at a Nairobi event where the exchange showcased its synthetic US stock futures to Kenya’s growing crypto community. [Manuel Ntoyai, Standard]

Retail traders in emerging markets can now wager on US equities through cryptocurrency exchanges offering up to 25 times leverage on stock derivatives, a practice that remains largely outside the reach of securities regulators.

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