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Upcoming Webinar: Optimising cloud, marketplaces & managed data services
Date: 30 June 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Financial institutions are under mounting pressure to rethink how they source, manage and distribute market data. Rising data volumes, multi-cloud adoption and the operational demands of regulations such as DORA are exposing the limits of legacy infrastructure, and driving…
TMX Group Agrees to Acquire RAFI Indices from Research Affiliates for US$490 Million
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…
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…
AIQ Markets and MarketAxess Partner to Launch AIQ Insight for Fixed-Income Traders
New York-based AIQ Markets has partnered with electronic trading platform MarketAxess to develop AIQ Insight, an AI-native tool specifically designed to help fixed-income traders and portfolio managers analyse U.S. corporate bond market data and analytics more efficiently. The platform allows users to search bond data, evaluate relative value, and build portfolios using natural language queries….
Trading Technologies and ICE Data Services Partner to Enhance Fixed Income EMS
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) has entered into an agreement with ICE Data Services, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), to integrate ICE’s foundational evaluated prices and reference data into its new buy-side Fixed Income execution management system (EMS). As part of the partnership, TT will also offer its clients access to ICE’s Continuously Evaluated…
Iress Secures Multi-Year Partnership with UAE Trading Platform BitDelta Pro
Iress has established a multi-year partnership with the United Arab Emirates-based multi-asset trading platform, BitDelta Pro. The agreement extends Iress’s existing trading and market data capabilities across high-growth international financial markets. As part of the collaboration, BitDelta Pro will adopt Iress’s complete trading and market data suite. The technology integration includes platforms such as ViewPoint,…
The UK Bond Tape Goes Live – And the Real Work Begins
When the UK’s bond Consolidated Tape goes live on 22 June, it will have cleared every regulatory hurdle in its path. ETS Connect UK secured Financial Conduct Authority authorisation as the appointed provider earlier this month, closing a process that ran for the better part of two years. Yet the participants building the tape, scrutinising…
What the 2026 TradingTech Insight Awards USA Reveal About the Direction of the Trading Stack
The trading stack that North American capital markets ran on five years ago is not the one they run on now. Front-office systems that once stood alone are being asked to talk to one another. Data that was once simply delivered is now expected to drive decisions. And the question vendors hear from buy-side and…
Aiviq Launches AI-Powered Native App on Snowflake Marketplace
Aiviq, the client data platform for the investment management industry, has launched an AI-powered Native App on the Snowflake Marketplace. The application deepens the integration between the two firms, allowing joint customers to securely access Aiviq datasets, including assets under management (AUM), flow, and net revenue data, directly within their Snowflake environments. The app utilises…
Next Generation Futures Trading Platform for Brokers and Prop Firms by Devexperts
By Jon Light, Senior Director of Product Management at Devexperts. US futures markets have gone from strength to strength in recent years, reflecting recognition among investors of this instrument as a highly effective way to express directional views and hedge risks pertaining to the global economy. Retail traders, too, continue to flock to futures due…