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Integral Survey Points to API Infrastructure as Key to Corporate FX Automation
Corporate FX execution could see a significant shift towards API-driven and embedded workflows over the next five years, but the pace of change will depend heavily on whether banks and corporates can overcome integration challenges, according to a new survey from Integral, the currency trading and workflow automation solutions company. The survey, covering 143 corporate…
BNP Paribas Backs OSTTRA’s Push for More Efficient Post-Trade Infrastructure
BNP Paribas has become the latest global bank to take a strategic equity stake in OSTTRA, joining Bank of America, Barclays, Citi, HSBC, Wells Fargo and UBS Investment Bank in the post-trade infrastructure provider’s investor consortium. The move, announced on 25 August, leaves funds managed by KKR as OSTTRA’s majority owner and expands the group…
The Missing Audit Trail in Agentic Workflows
As investment firms move AI agents out of experimental environments and into live workflows, the governance problem is becoming harder to ignore. Much of the early discussion around agentic AI has focused on what agents can do: retrieve information, call tools, analyse data, generate recommendations and increasingly act on behalf of users. Once those agents…
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…