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TS Imagine Pushes AI Deeper into Trading Workflows with TSIQ
TS Imagine is taking its use of artificial intelligence beyond information retrieval and analysis and into trading, portfolio and risk workflows with the launch of TSIQ, an AI platform designed to explain, recommend and – subject to user-defined controls – act. The launch follows a five-year, $100 million investment by the company in data, infrastructure...
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Liquidnet Targets Fragmented Liquidity Landscape with Meridian
Liquidnet has brought its algorithmic trading capabilities together under a new proposition, Meridian, as institutional equity traders face an increasingly complex liquidity landscape spanning lit and dark venues, bilateral liquidity and other execution mechanisms. The launch is the culmination of an 11-year expansion of Liquidnet’s electronic trading business. Meridian combines its algorithms, analytics, quantitative services...
The New Economics of Equities Trading Infrastructure
How modular architecture, 24/5 trading, and the rising cost of change are reshaping equities infrastructure By Ian Salmon, Head of Accelerator Program, Adaptive. Equities trading infrastructure has traditionally been judged against a familiar set of measures: latency, throughput, reliability and the ability to remain stable during periods of intense market activity. Those requirements remain fundamental....
Exegy and MarketsIO Target the Market Data Migration Deadlock
For years, financial institutions have faced an uncomfortable trade-off around enterprise market data infrastructure. Legacy platforms may be expensive, complex and increasingly ill-suited to modern trading environments, but replacing technology embedded across hundreds or thousands of applications can introduce even greater cost and operational risk. A recently announced partnership between Exegy and MarketsIO is taking...
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J.P. Morgan Automates US Listed Options Matching with DTCC’s CTM
J.P. Morgan is now using DTCC’s CTM automated trade matching workflow for US listed options, targeting greater efficiency in commissions reconciliation and post-trade processing. The workflow is designed to increase straight-through processing by standardising trade matching and reducing manual reconciliation. CTM can automate the handling of commission breaks, removing the need for customised reports and…
Options Partners with ZutaCore on Liquid-Cooled Trading Infrastructure
Options Technology has partnered with ZutaCore to deploy high-density, waterless liquid-cooled compute infrastructure across its global financial services platform. The agreement gives Options clients access to ZutaCore’s HyperCool technology, a two-phase, direct-to-chip cooling system designed to support high-power processors while keeping water out of the IT environment. The companies say this can enable higher compute…
Your Bourse Introduces Virtual Groups for Multi-Platform Routing
Your Bourse has introduced Virtual Groups, a new capability designed to simplify routing management for brokers operating across multiple connected trading platforms. The functionality allows brokers to combine native client groups from different trading servers into a single virtual grouping, enabling them to manage common routing requirements more centrally. Initial routing rules are configured on…
Purple Group Launches Fintech Infrastructure Platform Hello Purple
Purple Group has launched Hello Purple, a fintech infrastructure platform designed to simplify the development and launch of financial products by providing access to technology and regulated financial capabilities. Built on infrastructure developed across Purple Group’s existing fintech businesses, the platform brings together services spanning payments, trading and embedded finance. It targets entrepreneurs, developers and…
SOLVE Expands Fixed Income Data and Trading Workflow Tools
SOLVE has introduced a series of enhancements to its fixed income platform, spanning TRACE market data, structured credit workflows and relative value analytics. The new TRACE Data Product Suite brings reported trade activity into SOLVE’s MBS Source workflow alongside collateral characteristics, historical offers, BWIC results and other security-level information. Coverage includes agency and non-agency MBS…
FutureSports and MLB Pave Way for Team Performance Futures
FutureSports has agreed with Major League Baseball (MLB) to create rules-based financial indexes tracking the performance of each of the league’s 30 teams, potentially providing the basis for a new class of sports-related derivatives. Under the agreement, MLB will supply Official League Data for the creation of CME FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI). CME Group plans…
ProCredit Selects Teciem’s Kondor Up for Group-Wide Treasury Operations
ProCredit group has selected Teciem’s Kondor Up treasury platform to support funding, liquidity management, trading and risk processes across its international banking network. The group operates ten development-focused commercial banks in South Eastern and Eastern Europe. ProCredit Holding also oversees capital adequacy, regulatory reporting and risk management across the network. Kondor Up will provide front-to-back…
Bank of Canada Selects CanDeal DNA for Fixed Income Pricing
The Bank of Canada has selected CanDeal Data & Analytics (DNA) to provide Canadian dollar-denominated fixed income pricing under a multi-year agreement. The central bank will use CanDeal DNA Reference Pricing across operational activities, market analysis, research, policy development and risk management. The agreement also allows Government of Canada benchmark bond yields derived from CanDeal…
IEX Launches Revenue-Sharing Programme for Market Data Vendors
IEX has launched a vendor partnership programme offering revenue-sharing incentives to firms that help distribute its direct US equities market data. Under the programme, participating market data, connectivity, infrastructure and application providers will be eligible for incentives linked to qualifying new client subscriptions to IEX data products. Eligible feeds include IEX TOPS, IEX DEEP and…
Tokenovate Executes CDM-Native Intraday Repo on Canton Network
Tokenovate has executed and settled an intraday repo transaction on the Canton Network using the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM), with the cash leg settled in Circle-issued USDC expressed as USDCx Reserve on Canton. The transaction used CDM-native event and state management across the full repo lifecycle, covering trade representation, lifecycle processing, collateral movements and…
S&P Global Leads Investment in Kaiko as Series B Reaches $110 Million
S&P Global has led a strategic investment in digital asset data provider Kaiko, extending the company’s Series B funding to $110 million as it expands its data infrastructure for tokenised markets. The round also includes BNP Paribas, Bpifrance, Broadridge, Canton Foundation, Coinbase Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, Nasdaq Ventures, Royal Bank of Canada, Stellar and Susquehanna…
smartTrade Extends into Post-Trade with Multi-Asset Flow Platform
smartTrade Technologies has launched smartTrade Flow, a multi-asset post-trade platform covering processes from matching and reconciliation through to settlement, accounting, regulatory reporting and audit. The standalone platform connects to existing trading systems through APIs and integrates natively with smartTrade’s LiquidityFX and Commercial Banking & Payments products. It supports FX, precious metals, money markets, fixed income,…
LDA Launches Configurable Low-Latency Platforms for Trading and AI Workloads
LDA Technologies has launched two configurable hardware platforms designed to help capital markets firms scale low-latency connectivity and compute capacity while reducing infrastructure footprint. OmniX combines FPGA-powered networking, Layer 1 connectivity and hot-pluggable storage within a 1RU platform, allowing firms to tap, timestamp and record data within a single device. Configurations can incorporate LDA’s Maze…
Parameta and Zema Expand Access to OTC Energy and Commodities Data
Parameta Solutions and Zema Global have expanded their partnership to provide Zema customers with access to Parameta’s OTC energy and commodities market data through Zema’s Decisioning Infrastructure. The agreement will make Parameta’s end-of-day indicative pricing available across global markets including oil, natural gas and LNG, power, coal, environmental markets and metals. The broker-sourced data is…
Sterling Launches STRIDER for 24-Hour Web and Mobile Trading
Sterling Trading Tech has launched STRIDER, an AI-driven web and mobile trading platform designed to support increasingly global and extended-hours trading. The platform provides 24/7 access to US equities and options trading through browsers and mobile devices, covering workflows ranging from straightforward equity execution to complex options strategies. It is interoperable with Sterling’s desktop environment…
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Broadridge Appoints Alex Duggan to Lead International BPO Growth
Broadridge Financial Solutions has appointed Alex Duggan as Head of BPO International, with responsibility for expanding its business process outsourcing operations across EMEA and Asia-Pacific. Duggan will also oversee the continued development of Broadridge’s Glasgow hub, which the company is positioning as a strategic UK centre for client service, operational innovation and technology-led delivery. The…
Trading Technologies Appoints Katie Price to Lead Data, Analytics and Compliance
Trading Technologies (TT) has appointed Katie Price as EVP, Global Head of Data, Analytics and Compliance, bringing its previously separate data and analytics and compliance businesses under a single leadership structure. The combined business includes TT TCA and TT Trade Surveillance, reflecting what the company sees as growing convergence between data-driven analytics, regulatory reporting, oversight…
BMLL Appoints Brad Hunt as Board Chairman Following Nordic Capital Acquisition
BMLL, the provider of harmonised historical Level 3, 2, and 1 market data and analytics, has appointed Brad Hunt as Chairman of the Board. Hunt succeeds Lee Hodgkinson, who will remain on the board as an independent Non-Executive Director (NED). Hunt brings 30 years of experience in financial data businesses, having most recently served as…
Dr Lisa Cameron Joins Stablecoin Standard to Lead Government Relations
Stablecoin Standard has appointed Dr Lisa Cameron to support its government relations and policy engagement across the United Kingdom and United States. In her new role, she will focus on convening global policymakers and members through a series of dedicated initiatives, including roundtables, networking dinners, and international trade missions. Dr Cameron brings extensive legislative and…
Genesis Global Announces Key Leadership Appointments to Propel AI-Driven Capital Markets Growth
Genesis Global has announced five senior leadership promotions to support increasing client demand for efficient, compliant software delivery in capital markets. The appointments are strategically positioned to help financial institutions integrate artificial intelligence into their development processes. By combining AI capabilities with a library of established capital markets workflows and components, the Genesis platform ensures…
BMLL Appoints Michael Chiappinelli as Chief Revenue Officer to Drive Global Growth
Capital markets data and analytics provider BMLL has appointed Michael Chiappinelli as Chief Revenue Officer. Based in the United States, Chiappinelli will lead the company’s international commercial strategy and global sales function, reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer Paul Humphrey as part of the executive management team. His appointment follows the company’s acquisition by Nordic…
Eventus Expands Leadership Team With New Chief Technology Officer and Chief Customer Officer
Eventus, provider of trade surveillance and financial risk solutions, has announced two major additions to its leadership team. Eric Litz has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Sarah-Jane McColl joins as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Both executives report directly to CEO Cameron Routh as part of the company’s focus on enhancing client compliance…
Eventus Appoints Cameron Routh as Chief Executive Officer
Eventus, a global provider of trade surveillance and financial risk solutions, has announced the appointment of Cameron Routh as its new Chief Executive Officer. The transition follows a majority investment in the company by Terminus Capital Partners (TCP), a private equity firm specialising in B2B AI and software. Routh succeeds founder Travis Schwab, who led…
Zema Global Strengthens Leadership Team to Drive Long-Term Growth Strategy
Zema Global, the data and analytics provider for the energy, commodities, and financial sectors, has announced three senior executive appointments to its leadership team. Tina Morris joins as Chief Operating Officer to oversee operational excellence and the integration of AI-driven efficiencies. Frederick Winston has been appointed Chief Financial Officer to manage strategic scaling, while Javed…
SOLVE Appoints Michael Pellerito as Senior Vice President of Innovation
SOLVE, a provider of pre-trade data and predictive pricing for fixed income markets, has promoted Michael Pellerito to the role of Senior Vice President of Innovation. This appointment underscores the company’s commitment to integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning (AIML) into its product roadmap. Pellerito is tasked with accelerating the development of AI-driven capabilities to…
BMLL Appoints Senior Leaders to Drive Post-Acquisition Growth
BMLL, the independent provider of historical market data and analytics, has announced a series of strategic senior appointments across its commercial and technical departments. These hires follow the company’s acquisition by Nordic Capital in October 2025 and are intended to scale global operations and accelerate expansion across equities, ETFs, and futures markets. The leadership team…
Trading Technologies Appoints New Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Revenue Officer
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) has announced a leadership restructure with the appointment of a new Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Nick Garrow, previously the firm’s CRO, has moved into the newly created role of CSO. In this capacity, Garrow is responsible for driving sustainable growth across existing business lines and…
SimCorp Appoints Neslihan Yegul as Senior Managing Director for UK and Northern Europe
SimCorp has appointed Neslihan Yegul as Senior Managing Director for the UK and Northern Europe. Based in London, Yegul will report to Chief Revenue Officer Oliver Johnson, effective 20 April. Her primary focus will be supporting the company’s expanding client pipeline and deepening existing relationships within these key regions, which have seen significant growth since…
Moody’s Corporation Appoints Christina Kosmowski as CEO of Moody’s Analytics
Moody’s Corporation has announced that Christina Kosmowski will take over as Chief Executive Officer of Moody’s Analytics in June. Kosmowski joins the firm with nearly 30 years of experience in the enterprise technology sector, having previously held senior leadership positions at several major global firms. Her expertise lies in scaling high-growth businesses and implementing customer…
ClearToken Appoints Fernando Cerezetti as Chief Risk Officer for Its CCP Subsidiary
ClearToken, the digital financial market infrastructure provider, has appointed Fernando Cerezetti as Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of its subsidiary ClearToken CCP Limited. The subsidiary is currently in the process of applying to the Bank of England to become an authorised Central Counterparty (CCP). Cerezetti will lead the development and oversight of the CCP’s risk management…
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The economics of modernising equities trading infrastructure
Equities markets are becoming more fragmented, interconnected and continuously available. Liquidity is spreading across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending, and firms are processing more market data and supporting increasingly complex execution workflows. These changes are placing new demands on trading infrastructure. Many traditional platforms continue to deliver excellent latency and throughput, but were...
From volatility to visibility: The fixed income intelligence shift
Fixed income markets are undergoing a fundamental structural shift, transforming how institutions price risk, govern data and make decisions at scale. The convergence of cloud-based delivery, AI-enabled analytics, expanding private credit markets and heightened regulatory scrutiny, is redefining what ‘confidence’ means in fixed income workflows. Access to third-party pricing and valuations alone is no longer...
The institutional adoption of stablecoins: Strategic value, challenges, and implementation frameworks
Driven by regulatory developments such as the GENIUS Act in the United States and MiCA in Europe, Institutional interest in stablecoins is surging. With more than $300 billion in circulation globally, stablecoins have evolved from a crypto-native payment tool into an increasingly important component of financial market infrastructure. For financial institutions, stablecoins offer a compelling...
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Upcoming Webinar: From Monolith to Modular: Architecting Equity Trading Platforms for 24/5 and Beyond
Date: 14 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Equities markets are entering a more distributed, always-on phase. Liquidity is fragmenting across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending toward 24/5 and beyond, and market data volumes, investor expectations and competitive pressure are all rising at once. Many...
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Date: 15 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Artificial intelligence is reshaping financial markets – but the reality on the ground is more nuanced, more uneven, and more instructive than the headlines suggest. A new A-Team Insight research programme, drawing on responses from senior AI decision-makers at...
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