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Fanatics Buys BGC’s Exchange and Clearinghouse to Bring Prediction Markets In-House
Global sports platform Fanatics has agreed to acquire Water Street Labs, a CFTC-registered Designated Contract Market (DCM), and CX Clearinghouse, a registered Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), from BGC Group. The acquisition gives Fanatics direct ownership of the exchange and clearing infrastructure that will enable it to expand its prediction markets business. Alongside the transaction, the…
ICE Adds Institutional Bond Execution with $6 Billion MarketAxess Acquisition
Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to acquire MarketAxess Holdings for $167 per share in cash, valuing the electronic bond trading platform at approximately $6 billion in equity and $5.7 billion in enterprise value. The price is a 33% premium to MarketAxess’s closing price on 29 July. MarketAxess connects around 2,100 institutional investors and broker-dealers in more…
Opetek Launches ARIUS Reasoning Platform with Tier One Bank Piloting on FX Options Desks
Opetek has launched ARIUS, a quantitative reasoning platform for institutional trading desks, which is being piloted by traders and quants at a tier-one global investment bank across live FX options workflows in New York, London and Singapore. A second tier-one institution has been approved and onboarded, with go-live expected in the coming weeks. Designed for…
Buy or Build? Trade Surveillance Software’s Oldest Question Has New Stakes
By Nolan Schiff, Chief Solutions Officer, Eventus. It’s a question nearly as old as enterprise software itself: should you pay a vendor to deliver your technology, or dedicate internal resources to building and maintaining it yourself? For trade surveillance, it’s a decision that requires weighing cost against control, performance against customization and the speed of…
Real-Time Surveillance is Still a Misnomer, but AI is Shortening the Window
The phrase “real-time surveillance” has long functioned more as a marketing label for market abuse detection than an accurate description of how firms operate. While modern technology can generate an alert the second a trade executes, the capacity to immediately review and act on that alert is far rarer. At A-Team Group’s recent AI in…
Europe’s Official EBBO Arrives in September: 130 Feeds, One Consolidated Tape
ESMA has officially authorised EuroCTP B.V. to operate Europe’s first consolidated tape provider (CTP) for shares and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). With a go-live date set for 14 September – just ahead of ESMA’s 30 September operational deadline – European equity markets will, for the first time, have an officially designated consolidated reference price. Operating under…
Rothera Deploys Eventus Validus as Surveillance Becomes Key for Event Contract Venues
Rothera, the CFTC-regulated event contract exchange and clearinghouse founded as a joint venture between Robinhood and Susquehanna International Group, has deployed Eventus’ Validus platform for trade surveillance of its markets, two months after the venue began trading. The exchange holds both Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) registrations with the Commodity Futures…
BMLL and SIGMA AI Partner to Benchmark Live Market Flow Against Historical Order Book Data
BMLL and SIGMA AI have announced a partnership combining BMLL’s historical Level 3, 2 and 1 order book data with SIGMA’s “Quant in the Cloud” streaming platform, producing an analytics layer that scores live market flow against historical benchmarks. The stated use cases are real-time anomaly detection, market regime classification and execution benchmarking, with anticipated…
G.H. Financials Deploys Intraday Liquidity Platform from Baton Systems
London-based G.H. Financials has gone live with Baton Systems’ intraday liquidity management platform, bringing cash balances, margin requirements and collateral positions across more than 100 nostro, CCP and carry broker accounts into a single near-real-time view. The independent clearing firm, which processes over 800 million futures contracts a year for professional traders, deployed Baton’s Balance…
London Stock Exchange to Launch 24/5 Venue LSE 24, Built Around Agentic Trading
London Stock Exchange has announced plans for LSE 24, a 24/5 trading venue designed for digital, algorithmic and agentic trading, with client testing due by the end of 2026 and Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) as the first asset class in H1 2027, subject to regulatory approval. The venue will run near-continuously from Monday to Friday…