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Upcoming Webinar: From 24/7 to Event-Driven: Engineering the Next-Generation Exchange Platform
Date: 28 April 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes What digital asset and prediction markets are teaching traditional exchanges about availability, agility and time-to-market. New market structures and regulatory changes are forcing exchange operators to rethink the foundations of their technology stacks. Digital asset exchanges, prediction markets and…
ClearToken and Canton Network Partner to Launch Regulated Settlement Infrastructure
ClearToken, the FCA-authorised financial market infrastructure (FMI) provider, has partnered with Canton Network to deploy three Daml-based digital asset platforms: CT Register, CT Pay, and CT Settle. This collaboration integrates ClearToken’s regulatory status with Canton’s blockchain architecture to provide settlement for stablecoin FX and tokenised cash flows. The suite enables the tokenisation of fiat and…
3DX and BridgePort Partner to Enhance Institutional Crypto Trading Infrastructure
3DX, the MiCAR-regulated crypto-asset trading platform powered by 360T, has partnered with BridgePort to integrate its off-exchange settlement (OES) middleware. This collaboration is designed to improve capital efficiency and reduce settlement risk for institutional clients. By incorporating this infrastructure, 3DX enables firms to streamline post-trade operations while maintaining their existing relationships with chosen custodians. The…
Sphinx Targets 24/7 Energy Markets with Blockchain-Enabled Derivatives Exchange
A new entrant to the energy derivatives landscape is preparing to test whether modern trading infrastructure can reshape how energy risk is managed. Sphinx, a startup exchange operator, is developing a platform designed for continuous trading and near-instant settlement in energy derivatives, initially targeting U.S. natural gas and electricity markets. The Sphinx Global Commodity Exchange…
FMIs Propose Framework for Digital Asset Securities Interoperability
Clearstream, DTCC, and Euroclear, in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group, have released a joint white paper titled ‘Building the Path Towards Digital Asset Securities Interoperability’. The report identifies significant fragmentation across emerging Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) networks as a primary obstacle to the growth of the decentralised finance ecosystem. To address this, the authors propose…
Challenging the Status Quo: Re-imagining the Trading Desk for 2026 and Beyond
The opening session of A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit Europe set a pragmatic tone for the discussions that followed. In a fireside chat between Stuart Lawrence, Head of EMEA Equity Trading at UBS Asset Management, and Monika Fernando, Product Leader, FinTech & Digital Platforms and former Head of Global FI Client Data & Analytics at…
Bloomberg and Kaiko Target On-Chain Data Integration for Tokenised Institutional Markets
Bloomberg and Kaiko have announced a collaboration to provide access to Bloomberg’s reference and pricing data within blockchain-based tokenised market environments. The initiative will initially support tokenised U.S. Treasuries and repo use cases on the Canton Network. Bloomberg Data License content will be delivered on-chain through Kaiko’s infrastructure, with access governed by existing licensing and…
Celebrating Excellence at the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026
The pace of change across trading technology shows no sign of slowing. As markets become more complex, data-intensive and performance-driven, firms are rethinking how infrastructure, analytics and execution workflows interconnect across the trading lifecycle. Against this backdrop, the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026 brought the industry together to recognise the solution providers delivering measurable impact…
STS Digital Secures $30m Strategic Investment to Scale Institutional Crypto Options Platform
STS Digital, the digital-asset derivatives trading firm and market access provider, has closed a $30 million strategic funding round led by CMT Digital, with participation from Payward (the financial infrastructure platform behind cryptocurrency exchange Kraken), Strobe Ventures, Arrington Capital, F-Prime (Fidelity) and BitRock Capital, as the firm looks to accelerate the growth of its crypto…
Tradeweb and Kalshi Announce Strategic Partnership to Expand Institutional Access to Prediction Markets
Tradeweb, the global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities, and money markets, and Kalshi, the world’s largest prediction market, have formed a strategic partnership to expand institutional access to Kalshi’s prediction market data. The collaboration also includes plans to support institutional-grade event contract trading via Tradeweb’s platform. The announcement brings a regulated prediction…