Liquidnet, the agency execution specialist, has partnered with BondAuction, an auction platform for the Primary Debt Capital Markets, to provide access to BondAuction’s offering from within clients’ Order Management Systems (OMSs).
Building on Liquidnet Primary Markets’ established OMS connectivity, institutional investors will have the ability to place bids via Liquidnet into the BondAuction platform directly from their OMS, and receive allotments back.
The buy-side trading desk is facing a structural reckoning. Decades of siloed systems for equities, FX and fixed income have created what COOs increasingly describe as a “silo tax” – duplicated headcount, fragmented data, and operational overhead that is harder to justify now that the underlying workflows have, in functional terms, converged. Thirty years of...
Prediction markets are moving another step towards the infrastructure of conventional capital markets, with Kalshi partnering with FCA-regulated structured products issuer Otala.Markets to make exposure to selected event contracts available to European investors through listed securities. Under the agreement, Otala will issue securities referencing markets traded on Kalshi, beginning with contracts linked to US Federal...
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...