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Terminus Capital Partners Takes Majority Stake in Eventus
Terminus Capital Partners has made a majority investment in Eventus, the trade surveillance software provider, in a transaction designed to support the firm’s continued product development and global expansion. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under the agreement, Terminus will back increased investment in product innovation and platform capabilities, expansion of global commercial and support operations,…
STS Digital Secures $30m Strategic Investment to Scale Institutional Crypto Options Platform
STS Digital, the digital-asset derivatives trading firm and market access provider, has closed a $30 million strategic funding round led by CMT Digital, with participation from Payward (the financial infrastructure platform behind cryptocurrency exchange Kraken), Strobe Ventures, Arrington Capital, F-Prime (Fidelity) and BitRock Capital, as the firm looks to accelerate the growth of its crypto…
WFE Signals Extended Trading Hours Feasible, but Warns Settlement Systems Must Catch Up
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has published new research concluding that extended trading hours, including near round-the-clock markets, are technologically feasible, but their long-term sustainability depends on coordinated reform across clearing, settlement and payment infrastructure. In Extending Exchange Trading Hours, the WFE examines proposals from major U.S. exchanges to expand equity trading toward 22-…
Optimal Launches Options Execution Platform Built on Competitive Allocation Model
Optimal Market Technologies the US-registered broker-dealer focused on options execution, has launched a new US listed options execution platform backed by several leading global market makers, introducing a model designed to allocate order flow based on measured execution performance rather than fixed or single-counterparty arrangements. The platform combines an options Alternative Trading System (ATS) with…
Tradeweb and Kalshi Announce Strategic Partnership to Expand Institutional Access to Prediction Markets
Tradeweb, the global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities, and money markets, and Kalshi, the world’s largest prediction market, have formed a strategic partnership to expand institutional access to Kalshi’s prediction market data. The collaboration also includes plans to support institutional-grade event contract trading via Tradeweb’s platform. The announcement brings a regulated prediction…
LMAX Group Launches Omnia Exchange as Cross-Asset Liquidity Orchestration Layer
LMAX Group has launched Omnia Exchange, a new infrastructure layer designed to enable institutions to exchange any asset against any other in real time through a single API, unifying FX, crypto, stablecoins and other digital assets within a single execution environment. Built on LMAX Group’s existing exchange technology and liquidity infrastructure, the platform combines blockchain-based…
BCG Expand: Market Data Industry Tops $50bn as Growth Normalises and Cost Discipline Tightens
Global market data industry revenues surpassed $50bn for the first time in 2025, reaching $50.5bn, according to BCG Expand’s latest Market Data Market Sizing report. Total revenues grew 6.4% in 2025, down from 6.6% in 2024 and 8.3% in 2023, signalling a moderation after several years of stronger expansion. The slowdown, however, does not point…
BMLL and Features Analytics Target Surveillance Benchmarking with Level 3 Order Book Data
BMLL and Features Analytics have partnered to develop new trade surveillance benchmarking and market integrity analytics built on reconstructed historical order book data, signalling a shift towards more measurable, performance-driven surveillance frameworks. Under the agreement, Features Analytics will build and commercialise surveillance benchmarking products on top of BMLL’s harmonised historical Level 3, 2 and 1…
LSEG and Bank of America Target AI-ready, Governed Data Integration in Multi-Year Partnership
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Bank of America have agreed a multi-year strategic partnership centred on embedding governed, AI-ready data and analytics directly into the bank’s core workflows. Rather than a distribution agreement focused on access, the collaboration reflects a broader architectural shift: integrating unified, rights-cleared content, analytics and risk intelligence across advisory, trading,…
Infrastructure Modernisation, Intelligent Workflows, Data Strategy and More: A Preview of TradingTech Summit London 2026
The conversation around trading technology has become more exacting over the past year. AI is moving into production environments. Data estates are being rationalised and rebuilt. Infrastructure decisions are increasingly shaped by resilience, transparency and regulatory pressure. Against that backdrop, A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 takes place at a time when firms are reassessing…