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BlockFills Integrates Definitive Finance’s On-Chain Execution Platform to Expand Institutional Trading Capabilities
Digital asset infrastructure provider BlockFills has partnered with decentralised finance (DeFi) platform Definitive Finance, to enhance its on-chain trading capabilities for institutional and venture capital clients. The integration allows BlockFills to offer automated execution across a wider range of tokens, including less liquid and emerging assets, while improving execution quality and maintaining trading anonymity. Definitive’s…
Meeting the 72 Hour Trade-Reconstruction Rule – 10 Holistic Surveillance Leaders for 2025
When regulators rewrote the rulebook after the financial crisis, surveillance teams were handed an almost impossible brief: show us everything that led to a trade. In the United States, the CFTC’s Dodd-Frank swap-dealer rules (§1.35 and §23.202) imposed a 72-hour deadline to reconstruct a transaction, forcing banks to retrieve orders, voice calls, chat messages and…
Finastra to Divest Treasury and Capital Markets Business to Apax Funds
Finastra has agreed to sell its Treasury and Capital Markets (TCM) business to an affiliate of Apax Partners LLP, the private equity advisory firm. The transaction, expected to close in the first half of 2026, will see TCM operate as an independent, rebranded entity under Apax ownership. The TCM division, which serves over 340 financial…
24-hour Derivatives Trading – Is this Really a Good Idea?
By Paul Cottee, Director, Regulatory Compliance, NICE Actimize. Are we soon to face a market with 24-hour a day derivatives trading? It might well be coming sooner than we think. Currently, the ongoing debate in the US derivative markets has been significantly influenced by the recent proposal issued on April 21 from the Commodity Futures…
Horizon Launches New Smart Order Router to Enhance Execution and Liquidity Access
Horizon Trading Solutions has announced the launch of Horizon Compass, a next-generation Smart Order Router (SOR) designed to help institutional and retail brokers manage execution quality and market complexity more effectively. Targeting both large and regional brokers, the new SOR is engineered to meet evolving market demands, including the increasing fragmentation of liquidity and sustained…
Trillium Surveyor and Blue Ocean Partner to Extend Trade Surveillance to Overnight Sessions
Trillium Surveyor, provider of trade surveillance and best execution analytics software, has partnered with Blue Ocean Technologies to integrate overnight trading data from Blue Ocean’s Alternative Trading System (ATS) into its trade surveillance platform, marking the first time such coverage is available for non-standard trading hours. The collaboration enables institutional clients to monitor trading activity…
SET and Nasdaq Expand Technology Partnership to Modernise Thai Capital Markets
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and Nasdaq have announced an expansion of their strategic technology partnership, aimed at modernising Thailand’s capital markets and enhancing overall market resilience, transparency, and regulatory alignment. As part of the expanded collaboration, SET will promote broader adoption of Nasdaq’s risk and surveillance platforms among its member firms. This follows…
A Look Ahead to This Year’s AI in Capital Markets Summit London
On 22 May, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns to London for its second year, bringing together data, technology, and innovation leaders from across the financial services sector for a full day of discussion around AI strategy, deployment, and governance. Held at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London City, this A-Team Group event will examine…
LDA Technologies Launches Low-Jitter Multicast Distribution System for Fairer Market Data Access
LDA Technologies, provider of ultra-low latency, networking and FPGA technology, has launched a new multicast distribution system designed to address longstanding fairness issues in market data delivery for electronic trading. The system synchronises exchange customer ports to within 50 picoseconds, an improvement of 98% over conventional Layer 1 switches, enabling exchanges to distribute data uniformly…
Genesis Launches MCP Server to Bridge AI Agents with Enterprise Applications
Genesis Global, the application development framework provider, has introduced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server to provide a controlled and compliant interface between large language models (LLMs) and enterprise applications built on its platform. The MCP Server supports the emerging open MCP standard, which aims to unify how software applications deliver operational and contextual data to…