Singapore

Singapore-headquartered media network helps new prop firms launch lean and scale tech, marketing, and infrastructure based on validated revenue — not vendor sales pitches.

FinMedia Group (FMG), the Singapore-headquartered finance and trading media network, has launched FundedTrading B2B Consulting, an advisory service for entrepreneurs and operators entering the proprietary trading sector.

The service responds to a pattern FMG has observed across more than 100 firm reviews since 2022: new operators routinely overbuild before validating demand — sinking launch capital into enterprise-grade tech stacks, oversized marketing campaigns, paid advertising at scale, and full operational infrastructure before they have generated their first traders. The result is exhausted budgets, no proven channels, and nothing left for the activities that would have built the business sustainably.

“We’ve watched too many firms burn through their entire launch budget before they’ve validated a single channel. Enterprise-grade risk systems before they have a single trader. Five PSPs before their first transaction. Six-figure ad spend on audiences they haven’t tested. Proprietary platforms instead of what their target traders already use. Then they realise the budget is gone and they still have no proven way to acquire traders. The problem in this industry is not capability — it’s sequencing. Spend should follow validation, not lead it.”
— Karol Cempa, CEO, FinMedia Group

The Lean Launch Approach

FMG’s advisory is structured around what the firm calls a needs-based launch: minimum viable infrastructure at go-live, with the technology stack, marketing investment, and operational complexity scaled up as revenue justifies.

In practice, that means:

• White-label challenge platforms rather than custom builds — most providers offer profit-split arrangements with no upfront monthly cost, ideal for operators starting from zero.
• Selective trading platform choice based on actual audience preferences in the target geography, rather than offering every platform on day one.
• Risk management tools deferred in the first months of operation, when transaction volume rarely justifies the cost.
• Single PSP matched to target geography, rather than payment aggregators built for scale the firm does not yet have.
• Manual processes initially, automated once volume justifies it.
• Marketing spend held back until channels are validated — small, measured tests before scaling paid acquisition, not six-figure campaigns into untested audiences.
• Maximum effort allocated to distribution — SEO, media coverage, affiliate relationships, and credibility signals — from before launch, not after.

“Operators get sold the full enterprise stack on day one because that’s what vendors are incentivised to sell. The firms that survive are the ones that launched lean enough that distribution could prove the model before more capital went into the stack.”
— Karol Cempa, CEO, FinMedia Group

Built on Three Years of Industry Coverage

FundedTrading.com, FMG’s core property, has been covering the prop trading industry since 2022. The site has reviewed, stress-tested, and analysed more than 100 firms across the sector — tracking which approaches scale and which collapse under their own infrastructure costs.

That dataset forms the foundation of FundedTrading B2B’s advisory work, which includes:

• Business model design informed by data from 100+ live firms — challenge structures, drawdown rules, account tiers, profit splits, and scaling logic.Warm introductions to vetted vendors — white-label platforms, PSPs, liquidity providers — sized appropriately for the operator’s stage.
• Media coverage at launch across FMG’s six properties: FundedTrading.com, FundedTrading.id, MyTradingReviews.com, DailyFXWire.com, FinPR.com, and the FMG newsletter network.
• SEO and content advisory mapping the keyword landscape for the prop trading vertical.
• Compliance orientation on jurisdictional and structural gaps that typically catch new operators off guard.
• Affiliate and partnership introductions to active partners in the niche.

Engagement Structure

Engagements are scoped individually based on client stage and objectives. The process begins with a complimentary 30-minute discovery call. Pre-launch clients typically engage for business model design, vendor introductions, compliance orientation, and media setup. Post-launch clients engage for distribution support, affiliate introductions, SEO advisory, and growth strategy.

FundedTrading B2B operates on a fee basis and does not take equity or revenue share in client firms.

Editorial Independence Preserved

FMG has maintained a clear separation between FundedTrading.com’s editorial review operations and the B2B advisory service. Reviews on FundedTrading.com continue to reflect actual trader experience, independent of any B2B engagement.

About FinMedia Group

FinMedia Group is a Singapore-headquartered finance and trading media network operating six properties across the prop trading, CFD, and FX verticals. The group’s portfolio includes FundedTrading.com, FundedTrading.id, MyTradingReviews.com, DailyFXWire.com, FinPR.com, and a newsletter network reaching active traders and operators globally.

Since 2022, FMG has built one of the most established editorial and review operations covering the prop trading industry.

About FundedTrading B2B

FundedTrading B2B is the advisory arm of FundedTrading.com, supporting operators entering or scaling within the prop trading industry. The service combines industry data, vendor access, and integrated media distribution across the FMG network. More information at fundedtrading.com/start-a-prop-firm.

Media Contact

Karol Cempa

Chief Executive Officer, FinMedia Group

[email protected]

https://finmediagroup.com

Yuma, Arizona

When a local government decides how to spend taxpayer money, use public land, or approve massive infrastructure projects, the law requires everything to be open and transparent. However, an institutional breakdown occurs when executive leaders such as Mayor Douglas Nicholls along with board members of influential regional non-profits, fail to disclose private Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) before presenting projects to the city council. By using these secret legal contracts to hide their personal business interests, these figures create a massive conflict of interest. They essentially force council members to vote on major community initiatives while completely blindfolded to who is actually profiting behind the scenes.

​This intentional lack of disclosure transforms the city council from an independent oversight board into an unwitting legal shield for private networks. Non-profits and public-private partnerships are frequently used as the “middlemen” to broker local development deals because they do not face the same strict public transparency laws as City Hall. When a mayor or a non-profit board member signs a private NDA regarding a project, they lock away the real data, the financial alignments, and the identities of future commercial beneficiaries. They then present only the shiny, high-level summaries to the council floor. The council members are induced to vote “yes” on a proposal based on incomplete facts, entirely unaware that their votes are being harvested to validate and protect the executive inner circle’s hidden business ties.

​However, the city council needs to realize that they are not legally or ethically bound to stand by decisions made under this decade-long pattern of deception. Legally, a legislative body cannot be held strictly liable for a contract or resolution if material facts and personal financial interests were deliberately hidden from them at the time of the vote. An approval granted in an information vacuum is fundamentally flawed. Once independent investigations and forensic audits follow the paper trails, the protective “firewall” these insiders built entirely collapses. A vote cast in darkness cannot insulate public officials once federal regulatory agencies and the public expose the underlying conflicts of interest..

​The city council has the ultimate statutory power to break this cycle of co-optation immediately. Council members must stop acting as a rubber stamp for prepackaged deals brought forward by executive networks and their preferred non-profit proxies. The council has the full authority to halt any vote, table any resolution, and launch independent investigations into any project where full financial disclosure has been denied under the guise of private NDAs. The moment the city council refuses to validate deals wrapped in executive secrecy, they strip the inner circle of its legal insulation. They force entrenched leadership to stand alone and finally answer for years of keeping the council, and the entire Yuma community, in the dark.

Hong Kong — June 24, 2026

Financial & AI Layer 1 Pharos Network today welcomed Circle, Avalon Labs, TermMax Finance, Primus and Tulipa Capital as the newest strategic partners of the RealFi Alliance led by Pharos Network. This expansion directly tackles one of the most consequential challenges facing onchain finance today, that is expanding productive capital beyond stablecoin yield loops to include the largest pools of onchain liquidity, the deepest asset class in traditional finance, and the trust infrastructure required for institutional scale.

Bitcoin, the largest pool of onchain capital, sits largely passive. Fixed income, the deepest asset class in global finance, remains underserved onchain. Institutional capital stays on the sidelines without verifiable trust and compliance frameworks. The industry has the assets, but not yet the productive infrastructure around them.

This cohort is designed when Circle anchors the stack with USDC and CCTP, the regulated settlement layer that moves dollar liquidity natively across chains and into RealFi applications. Avalon Labs activates Bitcoin as working capital, enabling BTC-backed lending, borrowing, and structured yield strategies that connect the largest onchain asset to real-world opportunities. TermMax brings fixed-income and maturity-based products backed by real-world assets onchain, introducing the predictable, institutional-grade yield curve that traditional capital expects. Primus establishes the verification and trust layer through zkTLS and verifiable credentials, enabling compliance-friendly onboarding, reputation systems, and trusted interactions, including for AI agent–driven finance. Tulipa brings institutional capital expertise and professional asset allocation frameworks, channeling sophisticated capital into onchain RealFi opportunities. They extend the RealFi yield layer from stablecoin deposits into a complete productive capital stack covering dollars, Bitcoin, fixed-income, trust, and institutional allocation.

These collaborations among alliance members are already in motion, and deepening. More than 10 alliance members have jointly published an industry perspective report on the state and future of RealFi, setting a shared framework for how onchain finance can move from fragmented tokenization to productive capital at scale. On the product side, R25 Protocol, TopNod, and Ember Protocol (from previous cohorts) are advancing real yield product designs, translating institutional-grade strategies into accessible onchain experiences for users. TermMax is working with Ember Protocol to channel fixed-income strategies into accessible onchain yield products, while Tulipa Capital is leveraging Circle’s USDC for its settlement strategies. These efforts reflect a deliberate shift, that is alliance members are no longer operating as parallel partners, but converging into a tightly coordinated network where research, products, and infrastructure compound on one another. More integrations across alliance members are underway, with additional product launches to come.

“Tokenization without utility is just a database entry.” said Wish Wu, Co-Founder & CEO of Pharos. “What the industry needs now is the productive capital infrastructure around those assets like settlement, Bitcoin liquidity, fixed-income, trust, and institutional allocation working as one stack. That is exactly what this cohort of partners is building together.”

The RealFi Alliance continues to expand as a coalition of the infrastructure providers, asset issuers, and financial applications shaping the future of onchain finance. Previous cohorts include Chainlink, Centrifuge, Faroo, Amber Group, LI.FI Protocol, Vishwa, Agra, Dune Analytics, Anchorage Digital, and others, bringing institutional assets, DeFi players, cross-chain infrastructure, intelligence and data access that established the foundational layer of the RealFi ecosystem. Explore the full RealFi Alliance and the growing list of partners at https://www.pharos.xyz/realfi-alliance.

About Pharos Network

Pharos is a financial and AI Layer 1 built for RealFi. It delivers the compliant infrastructure needed for institutional assets and internet-scale capital markets.

Designed to coordinate real-world financial activity onchain, Pharos combines deep-parallel execution (SALI engine), modular SPNs, and protocol-level compliance infrastructure, integrating ZK-KYC / AML mechanisms, AsyncBFT consensus, native AI agent support (X402 protocol), and dualVM (EVM + WASM compatibility), to support RWAs, stablecoins, cross-border settlement, onchain yield markets, and agent-mediated commerce at internet scale.

The network is supported by strategic partners across the global financial stack, including Circle, Chainlink, Anchorage Digital, Morpho, and Centrifuge, connecting regulated capital markets with onchain liquidity venues where real-world assets can be actively deployed into real-yield-generating strategies.

Built by former Ant Group leadership and engineers, backed by leading global investors across TradFi and crypto, including Sumitomo Corporation, Flow Traders, SNZ, Hack VC, and Faction VC, Pharos is developing the infrastructure layer for the next era of programmable finance and the agentic economy.