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Upcoming Webinar: From Monolith to Modular: Architecting Equity Trading Platforms for 24/5 and Beyond

Date: 14 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Global equity markets are undergoing their biggest structural shift in decades. Extended and near-continuous trading, evolving market structures, and rapidly growing data volumes are placing unprecedented demands on trading infrastructure. In a recent TradingTech Summit New York poll from…

S&P Global Expands Collaboration with Microsoft to Integrate AI Data into Microsoft 365 Copilot

S&P Global has announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to integrate its AI-ready data, analytics, and insights directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot workflows and agentic tools. Powered by the S&P Global AI Data Portal’s Deterministic Retrieval solution – also known as the Kensho LLM-ready API – the system enables users to access verifiable and cited…

Exegy to Distribute EuroCTP’s Real-Time Shares and ETF Feed

Exegy will distribute EuroCTP’s real-time multicast FIX SBE feed, the EU’s first real-time pre- and post-trade Consolidated Tape for shares and ETFs, when it goes live on September 14th. Building on a technology partnership established in 2024, Exegy will serve as a redistribution partner for the feed. This includes the European Best Bid and Offer…

FutureSports and CME Look to Turn Sports Performance into a Tradable Asset Class

Professional sports could be about to acquire a new dimension as a financial asset class, with CME Group preparing to launch the first exchange-traded futures contracts based on the performance of National Hockey League (NHL) teams. The derivatives exchange plans to launch standard and micro-sized Hockey futures on September 28, pending regulatory review. The contracts…

AI is Redrawing “Build vs. Buy” for Trading Desk Models

By Rohan Douglas, CEO of Quantifi Solutions. As technology, and AI in particular, continues to evolve and reshape the finance industry, trading desks are reconsidering how they source, maintain and extend their risk, pricing and analytics model libraries. Historically, this has often been framed as a build-versus-buy decision. Do you develop and maintain your own…

Multiplying the Value of Unstructured Data

Financial institutions have spent years expanding the range of data available to investment, trading and risk teams. Increasingly, however, the challenge is not obtaining more data but making sense of what they already have. Unstructured data is estimated to account for 80-90% of the information generated withinfinancial institutions, encompassing everything from regulatory filings and earnings-call…

From volatility to visibility: The fixed income intelligence shift

Fixed income markets are undergoing a fundamental structural shift, transforming how institutions price risk, govern data and make decisions at scale. The convergence of cloud-based delivery, AI-enabled analytics, expanding private credit markets and heightened regulatory scrutiny, is redefining what ‘confidence’ means in fixed income workflows. Access to third-party pricing and valuations alone is no longer…

TS Imagine Integrates Prediction Markets Data into Risk Platform

TS Imagine has integrated prediction markets data into its platform, enabling institutional clients to incorporate market-implied event probabilities directly into their existing risk management workflows. The new capability allows institutions to evaluate how portfolios might respond to major political, economic, regulatory, and geopolitical developments, by mapping specific event scenarios to exposures and sensitivities across multiple…

Fanatics Buys BGC’s Exchange and Clearinghouse to Bring Prediction Markets In-House

Global sports platform Fanatics has agreed to acquire Water Street Labs, a CFTC-registered Designated Contract Market (DCM), and CX Clearinghouse, a registered Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), from BGC Group. The acquisition gives Fanatics direct ownership of the exchange and clearing infrastructure that will enable it to expand its prediction markets business. Alongside the transaction, the…

Opetek Launches ARIUS Reasoning Platform with Tier One Bank Piloting on FX Options Desks

Opetek has launched ARIUS, a quantitative reasoning platform for institutional trading desks, which is being piloted by traders and quants at a tier-one global investment bank across live FX options workflows in New York, London and Singapore. A second tier-one institution has been approved and onboarded, with go-live expected in the coming weeks. Designed for…