It's not just IBKR and Alpaca anymore: five more brokers wired up AI agents in June

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We wrote about the first wave of brokers opening up to AI agents: IBKR, Alpaca, Coinbase, Robinhood, and an unofficial Tastytrade integration, all within about six weeks in the spring. Turns out that was the start, not the whole story. In roughly a two-week window in June, five more brokers, mostly on the CFD and multi-asset retail side, shipped their own AI-agent connectors.

The second wave

• Deriv launched TradersView, a no-login analysis tool that pulled in 20,000 active users in its first week.
• Webull shipped an MCP server for plain-language order entry and market data queries.
• IG Group rolled out MCP access, read-only, no trade execution.
• ThinkMarkets went further, an execution-capable MCP that lets an agent actually place trades.
• eToro launched Agent Portfolios, a dedicated sub-account you fund and connect to an AI agent via a scoped API key, plus a new AI-first app built around an assistant called Tori.

Why it happened all at once

Part of the answer is infrastructure, not ambition. Spotware, the company behind the cTrader platform, shipped an official MCP server in May. Brokers running on cTrader inherit AI-agent connectivity rather than building it from scratch. MCP is turning into a checkbox feature for anyone on the right platform, not a multi-month engineering project.

The same question, again

Every broker in this list had to make the same call we flagged with IBKR, Alpaca and Coinbase: how much can the agent actually do on its own. IG Group kept it read-only. ThinkMarkets and eToro went further and let the agent execute. There's no industry standard yet, so the answer depends entirely on which broker you're looking at.

None of them, though, went as far as TradeStation did back in January: gating who can even connect, not just what the agent can do once it's in. This second wave all opened the door first and argued about autonomy second.

Why this matters if you use Cresori

None of these five are brokers Cresori connects to today, but the pattern is the one to pay attention to: AI-agent access is becoming a default feature across brokers, not a novelty a handful of first movers are testing. If your broker rolls out something similar, check the autonomy settings before you connect anything, and don't assume it works the same way as the last one you read about.

Sources: LeapRate, June 22.