TradingTech Insight Brief
Beeks Financial Cloud Group Enters Strategic Agreement with nuam to Deploy Exchange Cloud in Latin America
Beeks Financial Cloud Group PLC has announced a strategic agreement with nuam, the regional holding company that integrates the stock exchanges of Santiago, Colombia, and Lima. Under this partnership, Beeks will deploy its flagship Exchange Cloud service, a turnkey, fully managed multi-tenant compute and analytics stack. This collaboration supports nuam’s position as the first multi-country integrated exchange in Latin America, allowing the organisation to onboard domestic and international trading participants under a revenue-sharing model.
By leveraging the Beeks platform, nuam will deliver low-latency, secure infrastructure to market participants across Chile, Peru, and Colombia. The solution is designed to streamline the onboarding process for regional and global firms, enhancing market accessibility and supporting liquidity through faster market entry. This deal represents Beeks’ fifth new exchange client in 2025, indicating continued adoption of the Exchange Cloud platform by global exchanges seeking to improve infrastructure efficiency and reduce time-to-market.
Avelacom Expands London Network Infrastructure With New Point of Presence at Equinix LD7
Avelacom has expanded its global infrastructure by establishing a new Point of Presence (PoP) at the Equinix LD7 data centre. This new deployment complements the company’s existing presence in the LD4, LD5, and LD8 facilities, consolidating its footprint within a major connectivity hub for financial markets. The expansion aims to meet growing institutional demand for proximity hosting and high-speed network solutions.
By locating within LD7, Avelacom minimises the physical distance to London’s traditional and digital asset exchanges, as well as their ecosystems of custodians and brokerage firms. This proximity enables proprietary trading firms to benefit from faster real-time market data and order execution. Specifically, the upgrade enhances the popular London to Tokyo trading route, achieving round-trip latency of under 138ms via fibre and under 130ms using a hybrid fibre and microwave path.
United Fintech Secures Strategic Investment from Dansk Vækstkapital
United Fintech has accepted a strategic minority investment from Dansk Vækstkapital (Danish Growth Capital), a fund strategy under Danske Private Equity and Danske Bank Asset Management. This transaction positions Dansk Vækstkapital as the company’s sixth institutional investor, following closely on the heels of Barclays joining the investor group earlier this month. These new partners sit alongside existing investors BNP Paribas, Citi, Danske Bank, and Standard Chartered.
This investment aligns with a period of continued expansion for United Fintech. In 2025 alone, the company completed two acquisitions, expanding its portfolio to seven fintechs and strengthening its capabilities in commercial banking, capital markets, and wealth and asset management. With a workforce of over 200 employees across 11 global offices, United Fintech intends to utilise this latest funding to support further innovation and international scaling, helping clients modernise infrastructure and deploy AI-powered solutions.
LSEG and Citi Announce Multi-Year Strategic Data and Analytics Partnership
LSEG and Citi have entered a multi-year strategic partnership to deploy LSEG’s data, analytics, and workflow solutions at an enterprise scale. This agreement supports Citi’s modernisation efforts by consolidating data access and standardising governance across front-to-back workflows, including markets, investment banking, wealth, trading, and compliance. The initiative aims to enhance efficiency and ensure consistent data-driven decision-making throughout the organisation.
Under the agreement, LSEG will provide AI-ready content and multi-asset class data, ranging from economic indicators and pricing to benchmarks and regulatory information. Citi will utilise LSEG’s end-to-end workflow solutions, primarily LSEG Workspace and various APIs, to support client delivery. Furthermore, the partnership strengthens Citi’s risk management and KYC frameworks by integrating World-Check risk-intelligence data, improving the auditability and coverage of onboarding processes.
Duco and Phoenix Group Partner to Modernise Asset Management Reconciliation
Duco has announced a strategic collaboration with Phoenix Group to modernise the reconciliation infrastructure within its Asset Management division. The project involves creating a unified, cloud-based environment to reconcile investment and accounting records across 20 administrators and various asset classes. This initiative is designed to allow the business to scale efficiently while providing operational teams with a more robust and streamlined platform.
The initial phase of the project will focus on automating the reconciliation between Investment Book of Record (IBOR) and Accounting Book of Record (ABOR) data. This step aims to ensure consistent, auditable controls and full alignment with European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) standards. By reducing manual intervention in these critical workflows, Phoenix Group seeks to strengthen internal controls and enable teams to take greater ownership of daily operations.
Horizon Trading Solutions Partners with OCEANE Invest to Deploy Automated Market-Making Technology on ADX
Horizon Trading Solutions has partnered with OCEANE Invest, a newly established Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) market maker, to deploy its automated market-making and algorithmic trading suite. This collaboration will support OCEANE Invest’s upcoming ETF listings on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX). The initiative is designed to enhance market liquidity and efficiency, whilst reinforcing the ADX’s position as a key regional hub for ETFs.
OCEANE Invest selected Horizon’s technology to ensure continuous liquidity, tight spreads, and dynamic hedging capabilities for its new products. The system integrates with OCEANE’s internal pricing and risk engines, allowing the firm to utilise its quantitative research and in-house modelling to adapt complex operations in real time. The partnership ultimately aims to drive the growth of the GCC ETF industry, offering local investors reliable and cost-effective trading services backed by experienced traders from the US and Europe.
BLOX Markets Selects Adaptive’s Aeron Technology for Openpool Trading Venue
BLOX Markets has announced the integration of Aeron, the high-performance open-source messaging and clustering technology, into the architecture of Openpool. Developed by Adaptive, Aeron will support the infrastructure of Openpool, an upcoming US equities trading venue focused specifically on the retail sector.
Following an assessment of several options, BLOX Markets selected the Aeron stack because it precisely matched their technical requirements. The technology was chosen for its ability to deliver determinism, low latency, scalability, and resilience. Widely adopted across capital markets, Aeron provides a proven foundation for demanding financial systems, ensuring the new trading venue operates with high throughput and stability.
United Fintech Secures Strategic Investment from Barclays and Appoints Bank to Board
United Fintech has secured a strategic investment from Barclays, adding the major UK bank to its shareholder base of leading global financial institutions. Barclays joins BNP Paribas, Citi, Danske Bank, and Standard Chartered, all of whom have invested within the past two years. As part of this new partnership, Barclays will join the United Fintech Board of Directors, reinforcing the collaboration between established banks and the fintech platform.
This investment follows a period of significant growth for United Fintech. In 2025, the company completed two acquisitions, expanding its portfolio to seven fintechs, and now operating with over 200 employees across 11 global offices. These recent developments aim to assist clients in modernising infrastructure and deploying AI-powered innovations securely through a single point of access.
Archax and TradingStack Partner to Support FIX Connectivity for Digital Assets
Archax, the regulated digital asset platform, are partnering with TradingStack.io to offer FIX access to cryptocurrencies and tokenised real-world assets (RWAs). This initiative allows traditional financial institutions to access Archax’s Primary and Secondary markets using the same connectivity, workflows, and messaging standards they already rely on for equities, FX, and derivatives. By utilising the industry-standard FIX protocol, the collaboration aims to significantly accelerate the onboarding process for institutional clients entering the digital asset space.
The integration is designed to reduce the complexity often associated with accessing digital markets, and to provide streamlined access to various assets, including tokenised funds, bonds, and commodities. The technology also aims to eliminate the need for custom development, thereby reducing integration risks and shortening go-live timelines from months to days, ensuring consistent message schemas and improved straight-through processing for institutions.
Kraken Selects Avelacom to Provide High-Performance Trading Connectivity
Avelacom has been chosen by Kraken to provide high-performance network connectivity, aiming to enhance execution quality for clients. Starting immediately, trading firms can access Kraken’s matching engine through Avelacom’s optimised low-latency routes. This integration enables institutions to receive real-time market data and execute orders rapidly, supporting latency-sensitive strategies such as multi-venue liquidity and cross-exchange arbitrage.
Avelacom operates a global network connecting financial centres across Europe, North America, APAC, and the Middle East. Specific routes, such as the London-Tokyo connection, deliver sub-138ms round-trip latency via fibre, while hybrid networks utilising wireless segments offer further speed advantages. The infrastructure connects leading traditional and crypto exchanges with 99.9% uptime and 24/7 support.