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TMX Agrees to Acquire Cboe Canada and Australia, Reshaping Canadian Market Structure
TMX Group has agreed to acquire Cboe Australia and Cboe Canada from Cboe Global Markets for US$300 million (C$409 million), in a transaction that removes TMX’s principal challenger in Canadian equities trading and listings and folds Cboe’s Australian venue into the Toronto-based operator’s growth ambitions. The Canadian component is by far the more consequential leg…
xyt Layers Natural-Language AI onto Trading Data Platform as Race for AI-Ready Analytics Intensifies
xyt, the independent trading data intelligence platform formerly known as big xyt, has introduced a set of AI-powered capabilities designed to let clients query its datasets in natural language, integrate its data into their own AI environments, and generate executable analytical outputs from a prompt. The announcement positions the firm in an increasingly crowded field…
Clearstream Pulls Tokenised Securities into the Institutional Collateral Stack
The Deutsche Börse Group CSD’s partnership with Ondo Finance and 360X places tokenised equities and ETFs inside regulated European post-trade infrastructure, starting with US names – and sets up a two-way bridge between traditional collateral pools and on-chain venues. Clearstream has taken a visible step towards integrating public-blockchain assets into its institutional post-trade infrastructure, partnering…
Beyond the Benchmark: Bloomberg Extends BCOM for a Fragmented Commodity Market
When the Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM) was launched in 1998, the architecture made sense for its time. Liquidity in commodity futures was concentrated in North American contracts denominated in US dollars, and the methodology was built accordingly. Twenty-eight years later the way global commodity markets operate and the way institutional investors want to access them…
Voice UI – An AI Revolution in Trading UX?
By Ivan Kunyankin, Data Science Team Lead at Devexperts. We’re now three and a half years since LLMs burst into the mainstream, following the public release of ChatGPT at the close of 2022. It would go on to be the fastest growing consumer application in history, amassing more than 100 million users in two months….
DTCC Takes Core Clearing Infrastructure to Public Cloud in Landmark Migration
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is migrating core clearance and settlement systems to a public cloud infrastructure for the first time, in a move that marks one of the most significant architectural shifts in US post-trade infrastructure since the organisation’s formation. The announcement, made on 15 April, confirms that DTCC will use Amazon…
Exchange Technology 2.0: Future-Proofing Exchange Architecture
By Ian Salmon, Head of Product Marketing, Adaptive. Exchange technology is back under strategic review, but not in the narrow sense of another performance upgrade cycle. Across the market, venue operators are reassessing the foundations of their platforms because the environment around them is becoming more demanding, more diverse and less predictable. For some, that…
FPGA-Accelerated Engine from Exegy Will Power EU’s First Equities Consolidated Tape
EuroCTP, the joint venture of 15 European exchange groups selected by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to deliver the EU’s first real-time consolidated tape for shares and ETFs, has named Exegy as its core technology partner. Exegy’s FPGA-accelerated ticker plant will serve as the data normalisation and consolidation engine at the centre of…
Deutsche Börse Puts $200m Behind Kraken as Race to Build Hybrid Market Infrastructure Accelerates
Deutsche Börse Group has acquired a 1.5% fully diluted stake in Payward, Inc. – the parent company of global cryptocurrency platform Kraken – for $200 million, in a secondary share transaction that deepens a strategic partnership announced in December 2025. The investment is the latest and most concrete signal that Europe’s largest exchange group is…
HSBC’s Canton Pilot Is a Milestone – But the Real Test Is Everything Around It
HSBC has completed a pilot issuing and settling its tokenised deposits on the Canton Network, the public blockchain developed by Digital Asset for regulated institutional finance. The bank’s Global Payments Solutions business simulated the issuance, transfer and atomic settlement of its Tokenised Deposit Service against other digital assets on Canton-enabled applications – the first time…