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SOLVE Extends Relative Value Analysis to Peer-Group Cohorts
SOLVE has launched cohort-based Relative Value Analysis, an extension of its pre-trade platform that lets institutional fixed income traders and portfolio managers measure a bond against a dynamically defined peer group rather than picking off comparisons one bond at a time. The release, announced this month, adds two analytical frameworks – bond versus cohort, and…
Bloomberg Brings Electronic Trading to ABS, Fixed Income’s Last Holdout
Bloomberg’s launch of an electronic trading workflow for asset-backed securities, announced earlier this month, lands in an asset class that has resisted automation longer than most of fixed income. The list-based process, now being rolled out to clients across the US and EMEA, is built around the Bids Wanted in Competition and Offers Wanted in…
Modular vs Extensible Modular: Choosing Technology for Prediction Markets
By Daniel Davis, Chief Revenue Officer, Connamara Technologies. Ask most people how a new trading venue should approach its technology, and the answer comes back as a binary: build it yourself, or buy something off the shelf. Build, and you own everything, but you spend years getting to your first trade. Buy, and you launch…
TT Connects to Kalshi as the Institutional Case for Event Contracts Takes Shape
Trading Technologies has announced that it will support client execution on Kalshi, the largest US federally regulated prediction market, with trading expected to go live on the TT platform in the third quarter. It is the first regulated prediction market TT has connected to, and the firm frames it as the first of several regulated…
Institutions Are Already in Prediction Markets – As Data Consumers, Not Traders
The framing around institutional prediction markets assumes a gap that needs bridging: the markets exist, institutions are circling, and what stands between them is a stretch of missing infrastructure – clearing, margin, prime brokerage and surveillance. Build the scaffolding, the assumption runs, and the institutions follow. A panel at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit New…
The Race to the Trading Everything App
By Jon Light, Senior Director of Product Management at Devexperts. A major shake-up in retail trading venues is underway due to the expansion of crypto exchanges, neobanks, and zero-commission brokers into each other’s traditional territories. As the lines between these businesses continue to blur and users gain more access to a variety of assets and…
ICE Compass Sets AI Against Information Leakage in Fixed Income Trading
Earlier this month, ICE launched ICE Compass, an AI-driven pre-trade analytics platform that ranks dealers on the competitiveness of their pricing and estimates where a fixed income trade is likely to clear before the buy side signals any intention to transact. T. Rowe Price, which provided feedback through development and beta testing, has signed on…
The Compliance Challenge Shaping AI Adoption in Fixed Income
By Kevin Rutter, CEO, AIQ Markets. AI is rapidly becoming part of the buy-side technology stack. But before a portfolio manager can act on a recommendation or a trader can execute an idea generated by AI, firms must answer a more fundamental question: can they trust it? As buy-side firms move from experimentation toward production…
TMX Group Agrees to Acquire RAFI Indices from Research Affiliates for US$490 Million
TMX Group has agreed to acquire RAFI Indices from Research Affiliates for US$490 million, adding the fundamental-indexation franchise to its TMX VettaFi indexing and analytics business. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2026. RAFI Indices is the index business built around the fundamental-indexation methodology developed at Research…
LTX Brings Agentic Capabilities to BondGPT, Moving From Answers to Execution
LTX has added agentic capabilities to its BondGPT application, allowing users to build AI agents that monitor trader-defined market conditions, generate alerts, create a trade ticket, select dealers, launch an RFQ, accept a price and execute. It extends an application that, when it launched in 2023, was designed to answer questions: a trader could interrogate…