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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…
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…
Marathon Asset Management Consolidates Front-to-Back Investment Infrastructure with SimCorp
Marathon Asset Management, the London-based specialist equity manager overseeing more than USD 40 billion in assets, has consolidated its front-to-back investment operations onto the SimCorp One platform. This transition allows the firm to retire its legacy systems and establish a single, unified data layer across its entire business. The implementation extends an ongoing partnership between…
Why the Buy Side’s Real Agility Problem is its Operating Model
Most buy-side firms know how to find an opportunity. What an increasing number are discovering is that the gap between identifying one and acting on it has become a structural weakness. And that the weakness sits not in the front office but in the operating model underneath it. That was the recurring argument of a…
Recorded Webinar: Agility as Alpha: How Trading Infrastructure Determines Who Wins in Volatile Markets
Tariff shocks, geopolitical realignment and macroeconomic regime shifts are redrawing the investment landscape faster than most firms’ technology stacks can keep up. For hedge funds and asset managers, the ability to move quickly into new asset classes, geographies or strategies is no longer just an operational concern – it is a front-office differentiator and, increasingly,…
ION Integration with NatGasHub Edges Physical Gas Trading Closer to STP
ION Commodities has announced a deeper integration with NatGasHub.com, a NAESB-certified pipeline scheduling specialist, that brings nominations and scheduling activity directly into ION’s Openlink and Allegro commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) platforms. Traders working a position in ION can now submit pipeline nominations, receive confirmation updates and see scheduled quantities reflected automatically in their…
LSEG Expands Access to Open Risk Analytics via Models-as-a-Service Marketplace
LSEG has integrated its Open Risk Analytics offering into its Models-as-a-Service (MaaS) marketplace, broadening access to quantitative risk models for financial institutions. Delivered through the LSEG Analytics API, the hosted service allows banks, hedge funds, and asset managers to incorporate risk calculations into their existing workflows via tools such as Visual Studio Code and JupyterLab….
Validus Risk Management Integrates Real-Time Liquidity-at-Risk Analytics into TradeView
Validus Risk Management has announced the integration of Liquidity-at-Risk (LaR) analytics into TradeView, a core component of its Horizon platform. This update provides private fund managers with real-time visibility into potential liquidity requirements, enhancing the firm’s existing technology suite. While LaR analytics were previously available on an end-of-day basis via the RiskView module, this integration…
Financial Markets Need Their Own Mission Control
By Diederik Geeraerts, CEO at Taskize, a Euroclear company. With the Artemis II astronauts back down to Earth after travelling a quarter of a million miles to the Moon and back, the mission stands as a reminder of what success in complex systems really depends on. Not perfection, but the assumption that things can go…
FIS Enhances Cross-Asset Trading and Risk Suite to Level Playing Field for Smaller Firms
FIS has announced significant strategic advancements to its Cross-Asset Trading and Risk Suite, aimed at streamlining operations for investment firms of all sizes. The updated platform integrates order, portfolio, position, and risk management into a single, flexible system. By replacing disconnected legacy systems and manual processes, the suite allows smaller firms to access sophisticated trading…