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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…
Appital Brings High-Touch Risk Liquidity into the Electronic Workflow
Appital,the institutional buy-side liquidity platform, is extending into an area of equities trading that has remained stubbornly dependent on high-touch interaction, adding continuous institutional risk pricing through a new integration with Citadel Securities. The development, part of the rollout of Appital V2, will give institutional asset managers electronic access to extended liquidity across more than…
Kalshi Takes Prediction Markets into European Securities Infrastructure
Prediction markets are moving another step towards the infrastructure of conventional capital markets, with Kalshi partnering with FCA-regulated structured products issuer Otala.Markets to make exposure to selected event contracts available to European investors through listed securities. Under the agreement, Otala will issue securities referencing markets traded on Kalshi, beginning with contracts linked to US Federal…
Putting Quantum Computing to the Algo Trading Test
Quantum computing has long been discussed in capital markets as a technology with potentially transformative applications, but one whose practical impact remains some way off. Recent work by HSBC and IBM suggests the gap between quantum research and real-world trading may be starting to narrow. In a study using production-scale European corporate bond trading data,…
London Stock Exchange Pushes Tokenisation into Public Equity Market Infrastructure
The London Stock Exchange is taking a significant step towards bringing tokenisation into mainstream equity market infrastructure, with plans for a UK tokenised equity structure and a partnership with Payward that could eventually connect blockchain-based distribution with regulated public markets. The initiative is intended to explore a model that broadens access to UK equities while…