Arab Bank (Switzerland) has deployed a trading app built on the Integral platform to expand its mobile trading services targeted at institutional and corporate customers. The bank aims to provide an end-to-end FX solution, having worked with Integral and its BankFX cloud-based platform since 2014 to provide a single dealer platform for clients.
Tariff shocks, geopolitical realignment and macroeconomic regime shifts are redrawing the investment landscape faster than most firms’ technology stacks can keep up. For hedge funds and asset managers, the ability to move quickly into new asset classes, geographies or strategies is no longer just an operational concern – it is a front-office differentiator and, increasingly,...
Citi and HSBC have made a strategic investment in trading technology firm Adaptive, signalling growing momentum behind efforts by major financial institutions to modernise the infrastructure underpinning their electronic trading platforms. The investment comes as banks increasingly confront the challenge of evolving front-office technology environments that have developed over decades of incremental change. In practice,...
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Increasing volumes and the complexity of reference data in the post-crisis environment have left the middle office struggling to meet the requirements of the current market order. Middle office functions must therefore be robust enough to be able to deal with the spectre of globalisation, an increase in the use of esoteric security types and...