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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…
Rothera Leverages Adaptive Exchange Accelerator to Build Regulated Event Contract Venue
Rothera, the CFTC-regulated event contracts exchange and clearinghouse founded as a joint venture between Robinhood and Susquehanna International Group, has launched its trading and clearing platform on Adaptive’s Aeron Exchange Accelerator technology, going live in under five months, in time for the 2026 World Cup. The platform reports $3 billion contracts traded during its first…
The Performance Gap: How Data and Automation Are Separating Fixed Income Winners and Laggards
By Eugene Grinberg, Co-Founder and CEO, SOLVE. For decades, fixed-income markets rewarded opacity. Firms with the right relationships, proprietary data, or pricing advantages could generate outsized returns on a small number of well-timed trades. That model is breaking down. Fee compression, regulatory transparency requirements, and an explosion in available data have changed the basis of…
CME Group to Launch Treasury Link, Connecting BrokerTec Cash and CBOT Futures Ahead of Clearing Mandate
CME Group has announced Treasury Link, a service enabling spread trading between CBOT Treasury futures and BrokerTec cash Treasuries on CME Globex. The functionality allows participants to transact the differential between the two markets through a single submission, removing legging risk and enabling exposure to be managed via a single spread. It is expected to…
FlexTrade Partners with Portx to Place Portfolio Construction Inside the OEMS
Portfolio construction has historically sat upstream of the trading desk, in the portfolio manager’s own environment. And more often than the industry likes to admit, in a spreadsheet. FlexTrade, the multi-asset execution and order management systems vendor, has integrated the construction, optimisation and risk analytics of Portx, the London-based portfolio construction and analytics provider, into…
Accelerated Settlement Needs More Than Speed. It Needs a Common Language.
By Richard Baker, Founder and CEO, Tokenovate. The October 2027 transition date is approaching quickly, and firms across the market are reviewing operational processes, technology infrastructure and post-trade workflows. Significant progress has been made since the transition was announced, reflecting a broad recognition that shorter settlement cycles can reduce counterparty exposure and improve market efficiency….
When Everyone Has the Same AI Models, Is Discipline the New Differentiator?
Enterprise adoption of AI inside capital markets firms has reached a point where the frontier models are widely available, the coding agents and orchestration frameworks are broadly the same from one firm to the next, and the cost of building something has fallen far enough that a business user with no engineering background can now…
Why Prediction Markets Have to Survive the Events They Launch For
By Daniel Davis, Chief Revenue Officer, Connamara Technologies. Every prediction market operator knows the clock is running. The opportunity in this sector is tied to things that happen on fixed dates: an election, a championship final, a central bank decision, or a geopolitical flashpoint. But if a venue isn’t trading before the event, it doesn’t…
Reconciliation No Longer Has Time On Its Side as T+1 Approaches
By John Bevil, senior product manager at Xceptor. Europe’s capital markets firms are entering the most consequential phase of T+1 preparation. From 11 October 2027, trades executed in European markets are expected to settle one business day after trade date, reducing the settlement cycle from T+2 to T+1. More than 4 trillion euros of securities…