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Upcoming Webinar: The Buy-side Trading Desk of the Future

Date: 23 September 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes 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…

LSEG Integrates Financial Data with Model ML via MCP Connector

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has announced that its licensed data and analytics are now available on Model ML. This integration is facilitated by a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector, providing secure access to AI-ready financial content directly within financial services workflows. Model ML operates as an AI workflow automation platform specifically designed for…

When Everyone Has the Same AI Models, Is Discipline the New Differentiator?

Enterprise adoption of AI inside capital markets firms has reached a point where the frontier models are widely available, the coding agents and orchestration frameworks are broadly the same from one firm to the next, and the cost of building something has fallen far enough that a business user with no engineering background can now…

AI in Finance Requires Developing the Right Operational Mindset

By Carl Thornberg, Head of Optimisation and Analytics Technology at OSTTRA. Integrating AI into the finance sector requires navigating a robust regulatory landscape designed to ensure stability and security, a process that demands a deliberate and meticulous approach to technology adoption. To build confidence for experimentation with this not-yet-fully-understood technology, essential safety nets must be…

A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report

A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…

BLOX Markets Partners with Imandra to Deploy AI Infrastructure for Openpool

BLOX Markets has formed a strategic partnership with neurosymbolic AI firm Imandra to integrate its technology into Openpool, an upcoming retail-focused US equities trading venue. The platform will use Imandra Connectivity and CodeLogician as foundational components for its software assurance, certification, and connectivity infrastructure. The deployment replaces traditional static documentation and manual testing with Imandra’s…

SoftSolutions Integrates AI Capabilities Into nexRates Fixed-Income Trading Platform

SoftSolutions has integrated production-ready artificial intelligence into its nexRates fixed-income trading platform. The new tool allows traders to use plain language to automatically generate context-dependent Request for Quote (RFQ) layouts, workflow rules, and custom interfaces, eliminating the need for developer or vendor intervention. The AI operates strictly within a predefined catalogue of platform fields and…

ICE Compass Sets AI Against Information Leakage in Fixed Income Trading

Earlier this month, ICE launched ICE Compass, an AI-driven pre-trade analytics platform that ranks dealers on the competitiveness of their pricing and estimates where a fixed income trade is likely to clear before the buy side signals any intention to transact. T. Rowe Price, which provided feedback through development and beta testing, has signed on…

The Compliance Challenge Shaping AI Adoption in Fixed Income

By Kevin Rutter, CEO, AIQ Markets. AI is rapidly becoming part of the buy-side technology stack. But before a portfolio manager can act on a recommendation or a trader can execute an idea generated by AI, firms must answer a more fundamental question: can they trust it? As buy-side firms move from experimentation toward production…

LTX Brings Agentic Capabilities to BondGPT, Moving From Answers to Execution

LTX has added agentic capabilities to its BondGPT application, allowing users to build AI agents that monitor trader-defined market conditions, generate alerts, create a trade ticket, select dealers, launch an RFQ, accept a price and execute. It extends an application that, when it launched in 2023, was designed to answer questions: a trader could interrogate…