42Markets Group, a fintech investment group, has raised $10m in growth funding from Convergence Partners, a prominent private equity investor focusing on sub-Saharan Africa’s technology sector. The funds will be used to accelerate the development and expansion of 42Markets’ portfolio companies: Mesh, Andile, and FX Flow.
Convergence Partners’ investment in 42Markets is supported by 14 global development finance institutions (DFIs) from Europe, the US, and Africa.
What digital asset and prediction markets are teaching traditional exchanges about availability, agility and time-to-market. New market structures and regulatory changes are forcing exchange operators to rethink the foundations of their technology stacks. Digital asset exchanges, prediction markets and retail-driven platforms have normalised 24/7 trading, continuous availability and rapid product iteration. In contrast, many traditional...
LTX has added agentic capabilities to its BondGPT application, allowing users to build AI agents that monitor trader-defined market conditions, generate alerts, create a trade ticket, select dealers, launch an RFQ, accept a price and execute. It extends an application that, when it launched in 2023, was designed to answer questions: a trader could interrogate...
Now in its 16th year, the TradingTech Summit London brings together senior leadership across capital markets trading technology and market data. Join us to deep dive into key opportunities and challenges driving technological transformation across sell-side and buy-side firms.
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied...