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Adaptive and Google Cloud Partner with Bullish to Enhance Trading Capacity of Digital Assets Exchange
Adaptive Financial Consulting (Adaptive) has announced a multi-year partnership with Bullish, a rapidly growing regulated digital asset exchange, to enhance trading capacity and throughput. The collaboration aims to support Bullish’s scalability in response to rising business demand. As part of the agreement, Bullish will replace its current messaging technology with Adaptive’s Aeron Premium and receive…
LO:TECH Secures $1.6 Million in Seed Funding and Introduces Market Making as a Service for Digital Assets
Low Observable Technology (LO:TECH), the London-based digital asset trading firm, has raised $1.6 million in a seed funding round led by Lightspeed Faction, a prominent venture capital firm focused on the cryptocurrency sector. Additional participation came from Blockchain Coinvestors and Chris Adelsbach. LO:TECH provides liquidity to global markets through its advanced trading solutions and intends…
FIA EPTA Stresses Need to Take Urgent Action to Improve EU Capital Markets Competitiveness
The Futures Industry Association European Principal Traders Association (FIA EPTA), representing Europe’s leading Principal Trading Firms, has emphasised the urgent need for the EU to strengthen capital markets liquidity, to be more competitive and achieve its strategic objectives for a safer, greener, and more prosperous future. The association outlines its policy recommendations for 2024-29 under…
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Launches Cloud Marketplace in Partnership with DataBP
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Africa’s largest exchange, has partnered with data licensing and subscription management platform DataBP, to launch a new cloud-based marketplace aimed at transforming the JSE’s data offerings. The digital platform will serve as a central hub for all of the JSE’s data products and services, marking a significant step in the…
The Promise of Automation and the Perils of Standing Still
By Roger Golesworthy, Trading Director, Infront. For firms all over the UK in the trading business, speed and efficiency are essential. These set the base for providing clients with better returns. Behind the curtain, though, firms have a patchwork of systems and software that sit in-between humans and financial instruments. Systems which must meet a…
What to Expect at A-Team Group’s Second Buy AND Build Summit
On September 19th, Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology returns to London at the Marriott Hotel, Canary Wharf for its second year. This A-Team Group event offers a timely exploration of how financial institutions and technology providers can collaborate more effectively to modernise trading platforms and drive innovation. As firms increasingly transition…
Appital Launches New Price Discovery Functionality and Expands European Equity Coverage with Virtu
Appital, the technology provider specialising in peer-to-peer price discovery and liquidity sourcing for asset managers, has introduced ‘Price Discovery in Appital Insights’, aimed at improving natural liquidity generation among its buyside clients. The new functionality allows buyside traders to gain insights on potential pricing and volume before committing to an order. The newly launched feature…
Why Artificial Intelligence isn’t Always a Clever Solution
James Maxfield, Chief Product Officer at Duco. It’s an exciting time for technology. There are some seriously powerful AI tools on the market, solving real issues that capital markets firms have been battling with for years, if not decades. Undoubtedly, this is just the start. Yet at the same time there’s a noticeable trend to…
SteelEye Sets Its Sights on Cross-Product Market Manipulation
Integrated surveillance provider SteelEye has launched a new feature designed to protect financial institutions against the emerging threat of cross-product market manipulation, also referred to as cross-market spoofing. The new feature, Cross-Product Detection, helps surveillance teams identify and address manipulative practices across multiple asset classes and platforms. Cross-market spoofing is an increasingly sophisticated and challenging…
Institutional Adoption of Digital Assets: The Path to Critical Mass
Over the past decade, institutional adoption of digital assets has undergone a transformation. The emergence of tokenisation, stablecoins, and decentralised finance (DeFi) has unveiled new opportunities, attracting asset managers, banks, and funds, propelling digital assets closer to mainstream acceptance. As blockchain technology matures and regulatory frameworks take shape, institutions are expanding their focus beyond cryptocurrencies,…