Waypoint Trading Solutions Enables Day-One Connectivity to Texas Stock Exchange

Waypoint Trading Solutions, a TNS business, has announced it will provide immediate connectivity to the Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) from its launch day. This addition allows Waypoint clients to access the new platform alongside other exchanges and alternative trading systems, including all 22 US equities venues and overnight markets. Headquartered in Dallas, TXSE is a fully electronic national securities exchange backed by major global financial institutions, aimed at expanding access to US equity capital markets.

The integration leverages Waypoint’s established infrastructure, which is designed to streamline and secure global trading environments. The company’s capabilities are delivered through three core service areas: Radianz, which operates the world’s largest financial extranet for global connectivity; Xpress, a managed low-latency platform for high-performance market access; and Sentinel, a fully managed service supporting large-scale, complex market data operations.

Avelacom Completes Network Optimisations for Low-Latency Trading from Shanghai

Avelacom has completed a series of network optimisations from the Shanghai Tonglian Data Centre, to improve connectivity between Shanghai and major global financial hubs, including Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, and Chicago.

The newly optimised routes deliver round-trip delays of under 16.5 milliseconds to Hong Kong, less than 50 milliseconds to Singapore, and under 24 milliseconds to Tokyo, which also supports onward connectivity to CME Group markets. These improvements facilitate latency-sensitive trading strategies, including onshore and offshore China trading, FTSE China A50 trading, and cross-market commodities trading between global derivatives markets.

As Shanghai maintains a key role in Asian trading infrastructure, these network upgrades address the growing demand from trading firms requiring deterministic, low-latency connectivity to deploy cross-market and cross-region strategies.

GTN and Koscom Partner to Build Global Order Hub for Korean Securities Firms

Global fintech provider GTN has signed an agreement with Koscom, the IT infrastructure provider for Korea’s capital markets, to develop a ‘Global Order Hub’. Signed on 16 June in Seoul, the partnership creates a next-generation order-routing infrastructure, offering Korean securities firms a single gateway to international markets. Under the deal, GTN will act as a single counterparty providing market access, while Koscom will deliver the underlying infrastructure.

Koscom, which is majority-owned by the Korea Exchange, the Korea Securities Depository, and local securities firms, selected GTN due to its multi-asset coverage and institutional network. Alongside this agreement, Koscom and GTN have signed a memorandum of understanding with Korean fintech QV Labs Inc. This separate collaboration aims to introduce value-added services, including global investment data for local investors and transaction cost analysis for overseas orders.

The agreement further expands GTN’s footprint in the Asia-Pacific region. It follows the firm securing a Type 1 licence from Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission in March 2026, establishing a regional dual-hub alongside its existing operations in Singapore.

Mackenzie Investments Implements Bloomberg Multi-Asset Class Factor Model

Mackenzie Investments, a Canadian investment firm managing approximately $265 billion in assets, has adopted Bloomberg’s Multi-Asset Class Factor Model (MAC3). The implementation aims to strengthen the firm’s portfolio risk forecasting, factor exposure analysis, and fixed-income portfolio construction. MAC3 provides a unified view of factor exposures across equities, fixed income, commodities, and alternatives.

By adopting MAC3, Mackenzie Investments enhances its ability to identify factor-driven risks, detect unintended exposures from allocation shifts, and conduct forward-looking risk forecasting. The system also supports systematic back-testing, quantitative strategy validation, and portfolio optimization. Calculated daily across more than 3,000 factors, the model delivers precise forecasting and integrates smoothly into Mackenzie’s existing technology infrastructure via machine-readable formats and APIs.

The adoption builds on Mackenzie Investments’ existing relationship with Bloomberg. The firm already utilizes Bloomberg AIM for order management, Bloomberg PORT Enterprise for portfolio analytics, Bloomberg’s ESG Manager for data management, and Bloomberg Indices as benchmarks for its fixed-income funds.

NeoXam Agent Attaches Automative Functionality to Platform

NeoXam has launched NeoXam Agents, an agentic artificial intelligence platform for building and supervising artificial intelligence agents, a set of specialised agents in preview and an early-adopter programme launching in the third quarter.

The innovation attaches digital agents directly to the company’s existing products across the back and middle offices of investment firms to utilise operational data where it resides. The company says the new applications will help organisations achieve 90 per cent time savings on investment operations.

“Having an agent is the easy bit – running a fleet of them in a regulated firm is the real challenge, and that’s what we’ve delivered,” said NeoXam chief product and technology officer Clément Miglietti.

The specialised agents will become generally available in September 2026 and target specific operational tasks such as reconciliation, compliance and reporting.

The announcement follows the deployment of NeoXam Structure, a product that extracts figures from documentation and transfers validated data to internal systems with a reported processing time reduction from 15 minutes to about 1 minute per document.

Advisory Summit Selects Finbourne as Fund Administration Provider

Finbourne Technology has been chosen as the strategic fund administration platform for Summit Group, a provider of fiduciary, fund and advisory services.

The enterprise data management platform will consolidate instrument, pricing, holdings and transaction data from various market data providers, custodians and counterparties.

This choice follows an evaluation process intended to upgrade the infrastructure across Jersey, Guernsey and international locations.

“This investment in Finbourne’s platform reflects our continued commitment to providing the institutional-grade, future-ready administration capability that clients expect,” said Summit chief executive Matt Claxton.

The system is intended to deliver investment book of record, fund accounting and transfer agency services from a unified data foundation. This deployment follows the 2025 acquisition of R&H Jersey to expand service capabilities across the Channel Islands.

Sumsub Adds Agentic Compliance Configuration Through MCP Integration

Sumsub has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration and a suite of AI agent skills designed to let compliance teams use large language model-based agents to configure and manage verification workflows.

The new capability allows teams to upload anti-money laundering (AML) policies or regulatory requirements to AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT or other leading models, and use those agents to generate Sumsub workflow configurations directly from the source document. In practice, that means country-specific risk brackets, weighted scoring tables and conditional onboarding logic can be translated into verification levels, risk questionnaires and onboarding workflows inside the customer’s Sumsub dashboard.

The development addresses one of the more time-consuming parts of compliance technology implementation: translating policy and regulatory requirements into operational settings. Traditionally, that work has required solution architects or technical teams to interpret AML policies, map requirements to platform controls and build onboarding workflows manually. Sumsub says a setup that previously could take days can now be completed in minutes.

The release also extends agentic functionality beyond workflow setup. AI agents can be used to support technical integration, including writing code to embed Sumsub verification into a customer onboarding flow. Day-to-day use cases include reviewing applicants, running analytics, generating verification links and responding to regulatory changes.

“Setting up a compliance workflow has always required significant manual effort, and updating it when regulations change requires even more,” said Andrew Novoselsky, Chief Product Officer at Sumsub. “Our Agentic experience changes that by connecting an AI agent directly to the configuration layer of the platform — a team can take their AML policy, hand it to an AI agent, and have their full environment built automatically. That is a fundamentally different category of capability from what has been available in this space.”

The integration is model-agnostic and is designed to work with leading AI agents. Sumsub has also published an open-source set of agent skills on GitHub, which can be installed with a single terminal command.

The MCP integration builds on Sumsub’s broader AI strategy, including Summy, its AI Copilot for compliance and fraud teams inside the platform. Sumsub is positioning the release as part of a shift toward compliance infrastructure that can operate alongside the AI tools and workflows used by operational, compliance and technical teams.

Sumsub says access to the MCP integration is controlled through separate permissions to support granular data governance. Sensitive actions are performed in an isolated sandbox, with configuration changes reviewed and approved by a human before being applied.

The integration is available now. Sumsub says it is the first verification platform to be officially listed on the ChatGPT Apps platform, with further discussions ongoing with additional large language model providers. Documentation and agent skills are available through Sumsub’s developer resources.

AIQ Markets and MarketAxess Partner to Launch AIQ Insight for Fixed-Income Traders

New York-based AIQ Markets has partnered with electronic trading platform MarketAxess to develop AIQ Insight, an AI-native tool specifically designed to help fixed-income traders and portfolio managers analyse U.S. corporate bond market data and analytics more efficiently.

The platform allows users to search bond data, evaluate relative value, and build portfolios using natural language queries. To securely support investment decisions, the tool provides auditable answers backed by transparent data sourcing and strict governance controls.

As part of the collaboration, MarketAxess is piloting an exclusive version of the tool that integrates its own proprietary data feeds, including CP+ pricing information and Tradability scores. The launch signals an initial step in AIQ Markets’ broader strategy to deploy practical AI technologies that meet the increasing demand for efficiency and transparency in the fixed-income sector.

Trading Technologies and ICE Data Services Partner to Enhance Fixed Income EMS

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) has entered into an agreement with ICE Data Services, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), to integrate ICE’s foundational evaluated prices and reference data into its new buy-side Fixed Income execution management system (EMS). As part of the partnership, TT will also offer its clients access to ICE’s Continuously Evaluated Price (CEP) market data feed

The new buy-side fixed income EMS is scheduled to launch later this year. Built natively within the TT multi-asset platform, the system will initially focus on USD Rates and Credit products. This integration enables clients to use their existing trading widgets and post-trade services, which are already established for futures, options, and foreign exchange (FX) markets.

Iress Secures Multi-Year Partnership with UAE Trading Platform BitDelta Pro

Iress has established a multi-year partnership with the United Arab Emirates-based multi-asset trading platform, BitDelta Pro. The agreement extends Iress’s existing trading and market data capabilities across high-growth international financial markets.

As part of the collaboration, BitDelta Pro will adopt Iress’s complete trading and market data suite. The technology integration includes platforms such as ViewPoint, Iress Pro, and IOS+, alongside FIX connectivity and application programming interfaces (APIs). Providing this infrastructure will directly support BitDelta Pro’s strategic business expansion into equities and contracts for difference (CFDs).

Furthermore, BitDelta Pro will utilise Iress’s API and FIX infrastructure to connect its front-end trading systems directly to its back-office operations. Linking these critical technical systems will enable the platform to process scalable, multi-asset execution efficiently.