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Waypoint Launches Archon to Tackle Market Data Entitlement Complexity
Waypoint Trading Solutions, the TNS business built on the combination of TNS Financial Markets and Radianz, has launched a new market data entitlement management platform designed to give financial institutions greater control over user permissions, exchange reporting and the costs associated with market data consumption. The new system, Waypoint Archon, centralises entitlement tracking across individual…
BMLL Adds Kalshi Data as Prediction Markets Move Deeper into Institutional Workflows
BMLL, the market data and analytics provider, has added historical prediction market data from Kalshi to its global market data platform, giving quantitative and systematic investment firms a standardised dataset for incorporating event probabilities into macro research, backtesting and trading models. Under the partnership announced today, Kalshi’s historical order book will be normalised into the…
Rethinking Market Data Distribution for a New Generation of Markets
Pyth Network has expanded rapidly from its roots in blockchain-based market data into a broader financial data platform, bringing together more than 138 institutional publishers and thousands of price feeds across equities, FX, commodities, crypto and other asset classes. Its ecosystem now includes names ranging from Coinbase and Fidelity to Kalshi, Revolut, Polymarket and Hyperliquid….
OSTTRA Targets FX Timing Mismatches Behind Margin Disputes
OSTTRA, the global post-trade network, has expanded its triResolve portfolio reconciliation service with a new prediction model designed to identify one of the most persistent causes of margin disputes in the FX market: counterparties valuing the same trade using market rates captured at different times. The FX Snap Time Prediction Model uses historical trade valuation…
MEMX Launches MX2 as Options Expansion Gathers Pace
MEMX Group has launched MX2 Options, its second US listed-options exchange, adding a customer-priority, pro-rata market model as the exchange operator continues to broaden its footprint in options and build towards its planned combination with BOX. MX2 began trading on 14 September, processing more than 1,500 contracts across an initial 10 symbols on its first…
Smartstream Brings MCP-Based AI Access to Collateral Operations
Smartstream, the data solutions provider for global financial institutions, has extended its use of agentic AI into collateral management with the launch of two Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for its Smart Collateral platform, giving financial institutions a standards-based way to connect approved AI assistants directly to collateral data and workflows. The move is designed…
ExeQution Analytics Targets the FX Data Gap with Solas
ExeQution Analytics, the Australia-based trading analytics company, has launched Solas, a new analytics platform designed to help sell-side FX desks bring together market, trade, client and hedging data to gain a clearer view of trading performance, client behaviour and profitability. The platform, initially covering spot, forwards and non-deliverable forwards (NDFs), is aimed particularly at banks…
Digital Assets Move Closer to the Institutional Trading Stack as Caplin Launches Hosted Platform
Institutional digital asset trading is beginning to confront a familiar problem: as the market grows, the technology supporting it has to move beyond specialist systems and manual workflows towards the kind of integrated infrastructure already established in markets such as FX. That shift is behind the launch of a new hosted, white-label digital asset trading…
The New Demands on Fixed Income Pricing Infrastructure
Fixed income pricing has always involved making sense of imperfect information. Liquidity is fragmented, many instruments trade infrequently and establishing fair value can require considerably more judgement than in more transparent markets. But the demands being placed on pricing and valuation infrastructure are changing. Firms increasingly need valuations that are not only accurate, but timely,…
Databento and the Consumerisation of Market Data
Institutional market data has long been associated with complex licensing, specialist infrastructure and lengthy procurement processes. Much of that complexity is unavoidable: exchange data can be technically demanding, commercially restricted and costly to distribute at scale. However, the expectation around how that data should be accessed is changing. As financial firms become more accustomed to…