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Interactive Brokers has launched a unified prediction markets platform, linking Kalshi, CME Group, and ForecastEx via a single interface. The platform lets users compare liquidity, pricing, and fees in real time. It also allows traders to manage prediction market positions alongside traditional assets like equities, options, futures, crypto, and fixed income. This move comes as part of a broader crypto market update, with the firm planning to expand to other exchanges. Market news suggests growing interest in integrated trading solutions.

Interactive Brokers announced on Thursday the rollout of a unified prediction markets platform that connects traders to Kalshi, CME Group and ForecastEx through a single brokerage interface.

The launch comes as institutional and retail interest in prediction markets continues to grow. The Nasdaq-listed firm said the platform is designed to provide investors with a transparent and structured way to trade contracts tied to economic data, monetary policy decisions and other event-driven outcomes.

“Prediction markets are reshaping how investors think about risk and uncertainty,” Milan Galik, CEO of Interactive Brokers, said. “We decided to offer flexible access to this rapidly growing market across multiple venues from a single platform, which aligns with the convenience our clients are used to when trading US stocks or options.”

The platform enables users to compare liquidity, pricing and fees across the three prediction market venues in real time while using a smart order-routing system to seek the best available execution. Galik said the firm plans to expand connectivity to other exchanges.

According to Interactive Brokers, clients will also be able to manage prediction market positions alongside traditional investments, including equities, options, futures, crypto and fixed income products.

“IBKR is the gold standard in the global financial broker industry,” Tarek Mansour, co-founder and CEO of Kalshi, highlighted, adding that its partnership with Kalshi demonstrates rising institutional and professional investor interest in prediction markets.

CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy stated that CME is encouraged by IBKR’s client access to its prediction markets tied to benchmarks and economic indicators. He emphasized that increasing retail participation remains a key factor in the company’s strategy to expand these offerings.

Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated prediction exchange co-founded by Tarek Mansour, recently raised $1 billion in a Series F round at a $22 billion valuation. Institutional trading volume on Kalshi surged 800% in the six months leading up to that raise.

Asset managers and hedge funds historically balked at maintaining accounts across multiple prediction venues, each with different compliance requirements and capital pools. Interactive Brokers’ unified platform removes that problem.

In March 2026, the CFTC signaled it would draft comprehensive rules for prediction markets rather than pursue outright bans, a dramatic pivot from years of hostility and enforcement actions.