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.
For many quantitative trading firms and asset managers, building a self-provisioned historical market data environment remains one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive steps in establishing a new research capability. Sourcing data, normalising symbologies, handling corporate actions and maintaining infrastructure can take months and absorb significant budget before a single model is tested. At the...
TMX Group has agreed to acquire RAFI Indices from Research Affiliates for US$490 million, adding the fundamental-indexation franchise to its TMX VettaFi indexing and analytics business. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2026. RAFI Indices is the index business built around the fundamental-indexation methodology developed at Research...
Now in its 10th year, RegTech Summit London will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the European capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to innovate the compliance function and response.
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...