ION Group has acquired Dallas-based Allegro Development, a commodity management solutions provider. The acquisition of Allegro is designed to expand ION’s footprint in commodities and its portfolio of enterprise solutions. Allegro intends to continue to expand its suite of offerings, while its clients can benefit from ION’s additional scale and offerings. ION last year acquired Fidessa to extend its reach in equities and derivatives trading solutions.
Financial institutions are evolving their data platform modernisation programmes, moving beyond data-for-cloud capabilities and increasingly towards artificial intelligence-readiness. This has shifted the data management focus in the direction of data unification, real-time delivery and automated governance. The drivers of this transition are improved operational efficiency as manual processes are replaced by faster, more accurate automated...
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...
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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...