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.
Unstructured data and text now accounts for the majority of information flowing through financial markets organisations, spanning research content, corporate disclosures, communications, alternative data, and internal documents. While AI has created new opportunities to extract signals, many firms are discovering that value is constrained not by models, but by the quality of the content, architecture,...
Bloomberg has introduced Alternative Data Entitlements within its ALTD platform on the Bloomberg Terminal, reflecting a broader institutional shift towards embedding alternative data directly into established research workflows rather than treating it as a standalone input. The new entitlement capability enables Bloomberg Terminal users to access faster, more granular alternative data analytics from specialist providers...
Now in its 15th year the TradingTech Summit London brings together the European trading technology capital markets industry and examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
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...
