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Prediction Markets Push for Institutional Credibility as ARK Invest Signs on with Kalshi
Prediction market operator Kalshi has signed a collaboration with ARK Invest, the latest in a series of moves designed to position prediction market data as a legitimate input for institutional investment workflows. The partnership, announced in late March, will see ARK request and monitor event contracts on the Kalshi platform, evaluating whether the probability signals…
Bridging the Data Monetisation Gap
The strategic argument for treating market data as a product rather than a cost has arguably been won. What remains stubbornly unresolved is what comes next: measuring the return on data investments, breaking the hoarding cultures that prevent data from flowing across the enterprise, and building infrastructure robust enough to support AI at scale. Those…
ExeQution Analytics Brings Hallucination-Resistant AI to the Trading Desk
On almost every institutional trading desk, there tends to be one person who really understands the data infrastructure, who knows the APIs, the schemas, the quirks of the analytics layers, and who spends a disproportionate amount of their time fielding ad hoc requests from colleagues who cannot access the data themselves. It is a bottleneck…
Determinism is the New Speed: Why High Performance Trading Infrastructure is Being Redefined Around Provability
The definition of high performance in trading infrastructure is shifting. Raw speed, once the key benchmark, is increasingly being subsumed into a broader set of requirements around determinism, provability and architectural simplicity. For firms operating in fragmented, event-driven and increasingly automated markets, the competitive edge is no longer measured in nanoseconds alone, it lies in…
BMLL and Tradefeedr Partner to Build AI-Ready Analytics Layer for Equities and Futures
BMLL Technologies, the independent provider of harmonised historical order book data, and Tradefeedr, the network-based trading analytics platform, have announced a partnership to extend Tradefeedr’s analytics capabilities into equities and futures. The initiative, which includes a year-long industry pilot, represents Tradefeedr’s first move beyond its established FX analytics franchise and signals a broader ambition to…
STS Digital Launches Structured Products Platform, Deepening Kraken Partnership
STS Digital, the regulated digital-asset derivatives firm, has launched what it describes as a first-to-market structured products platform for institutional investors, extending the principal dealer model it has built across crypto options into a broader range of yield enhancement, capital protection and bespoke structuring capabilities. The platform, which targets banks, institutional investors, family offices, external…
Flow Traders Extends ETF Market-Making Playbook to 24/7 Tokenised Asset Liquidity
Flow Traders, the Amsterdam-headquartered global trading firm, has launched an OTC platform offering 24/7 two-way proprietary liquidity for tokenised money-market funds, equities and commodities. The offering, delivered through the firm’s Digital Asset OTC platform, covers assets including Franklin Templeton’s BENJI tokenised money-market fund and Tether Gold (XAUT), with institutional counterparties able to access liquidity via…
Industry Cautiously Backs EU Market Reform Ambitions, But Warns Execution Risks Loom Large
A panel at A-Team’s Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 offered a broadly supportive but clear-eyed assessment of the EU’s Savings and Investment Union (SIU) package, welcoming the shift toward a competitiveness agenda but warning the reforms risk falling short without bolder action on post-trade interoperability, data quality and regulatory simplification. The session, “The Evolution of…
From Pilots to Production: Capital Markets Firms Confront the Real Challenge of Scaling AI in Trading Workflows
Across capital markets, AI pilots are proliferating – on trading desks, in compliance functions, within data teams. The proof-of-concept phase has, for many firms, delivered enough evidence of value to settle the strategic debate. What remains stubbornly unresolved is the operational question: how to translate a growing patchwork of departmental experiments into scalable, production-grade capability….
Axiory.ai Launches AI Agent Trading Platform Built on Model Context Protocol
Axiory.ai, a platform developed by the global brokerage Axiory in partnership with Purple Technology, has launched an infrastructure layer designed to allow AI agents to access and trade across multi-asset CFD markets through a single standardised environment. The platform is built on Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard for connecting AI systems to…