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Bruce Markets and ABN AMRO Tackle the Infrastructure Challenge of 24×5 US Equities
The push towards near-continuous trading in US equities is moving beyond the question of whether execution venues can remain open overnight. Increasingly, attention is turning to whether the market infrastructure surrounding those venues, from clearing and market data to routing, risk management and operations, can support the same extended trading window. That shift is reflected…
Sigma Capital Partners MENA Selects TRAFiX for Global Equities Expansion
Sigma Capital Partners MENA Limited has selected TRAFiX’s order management system to support a new institutional trading capability, initially providing access to global equities markets. The Dubai International Financial Centre-based broker will use the platform to give clients streamlined access to global equities through a single OMS. The companies plan to extend the offering to…
MEMX Maps Technology and Product Expansion Following TMX-BOX Deal
Two weeks after announcing its proposed US$2.3 billion combination with BOX, MEMX is beginning to map out how the enlarged group will integrate its technology, broaden its options offering and support expansion into new products and asset classes. Jonathan Kellner, chief executive of MEMX, tells TradingTech Insight that the combination will bring together three distinct…
LDA Targets 25G Connectivity Gap with High-Density Layer 1 Fabric
As trading firms and exchanges move beyond 10GbE connectivity towards 25GbE and 100GbE, the surrounding infrastructure needs to evolve with them. While high-density Layer 1 connectivity has long been available at 10G, providing similar levels of flexibility and port density at 25G has proved more challenging. LDA Technologies is seeking to address that gap with…
FutureSports and CME Look to Turn Sports Performance into a Tradable Asset Class
Professional sports could be about to acquire a new dimension as a financial asset class, with CME Group preparing to launch the first exchange-traded futures contracts based on the performance of National Hockey League (NHL) teams. The derivatives exchange plans to launch standard and micro-sized Hockey futures on September 28, pending regulatory review. The contracts…
Nasdaq Continues to Build Out Always-On Market Infrastructure with LeveL Markets Acquisition
Nasdaq has agreed to acquire LeveL Markets, operator of one of the largest alternative trading systems (ATSs) for US equities, as part of a broader strategy to build infrastructure for increasingly continuous markets, spanning traditional exchanges, alternative liquidity venues and emerging digital and tokenised assets. The acquisition, announced this week, will bring LeveL’s institutional execution…
AI is Redrawing “Build vs. Buy” for Trading Desk Models
By Rohan Douglas, CEO of Quantifi Solutions. As technology, and AI in particular, continues to evolve and reshape the finance industry, trading desks are reconsidering how they source, maintain and extend their risk, pricing and analytics model libraries. Historically, this has often been framed as a build-versus-buy decision. Do you develop and maintain your own…
Multiplying the Value of Unstructured Data
Financial institutions have spent years expanding the range of data available to investment, trading and risk teams. Increasingly, however, the challenge is not obtaining more data but making sense of what they already have. Unstructured data is estimated to account for 80-90% of the information generated withinfinancial institutions, encompassing everything from regulatory filings and earnings-call…
OneChronos Brings Combinatorial Matching to European Equities
Periodic auctions came to Europe as an answer to the speed race. They are now routine. Several operators run them, and randomised auction lengths and speed-neutral matching have become standard rather than special. A venue arriving today has to say what it does that the others do not. OneChronos, which began production trading on its…
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…