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Horizon Trading Solutions Partners with OCEANE Invest to Deploy Automated Market-Making Technology on ADX
Horizon Trading Solutions has partnered with OCEANE Invest, a newly established Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) market maker, to deploy its automated market-making and algorithmic trading suite. This collaboration will support OCEANE Invest’s upcoming ETF listings on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX). The initiative is designed to enhance market liquidity and efficiency, whilst reinforcing the…
BLOX Markets Selects Adaptive’s Aeron Technology for Openpool Trading Venue
BLOX Markets has announced the integration of Aeron, the high-performance open-source messaging and clustering technology, into the architecture of Openpool. Developed by Adaptive, Aeron will support the infrastructure of Openpool, an upcoming US equities trading venue focused specifically on the retail sector. Following an assessment of several options, BLOX Markets selected the Aeron stack because…
United Fintech Secures Strategic Investment from Barclays and Appoints Bank to Board
United Fintech has secured a strategic investment from Barclays, adding the major UK bank to its shareholder base of leading global financial institutions. Barclays joins BNP Paribas, Citi, Danske Bank, and Standard Chartered, all of whom have invested within the past two years. As part of this new partnership, Barclays will join the United Fintech…
Publicis Sapient and Murex Deliver Treasury Transformation for Aldermore Bank
Publicis Sapient and Murex have announced the successful implementation of the MX.3 front-to-back-to-risk platform for Aldermore Bank. The UK specialist financial services provider undertook this initiative to replace its legacy systems with a modern, integrated, cloud-based treasury platform. The primary objectives were to enhance treasury efficiency and provide greater hedging options for risk management. Publicis…
Clearstream Launches Next Data Solutions to Enhance Post-Trade Analytics
Clearstream, part of Deutsche Börse Group, has introduced Next Data Solutions, a new suite of analytics designed to increase transparency across the post-trade value chain. The offering unifies four specific products—SettlementNext, LendingNext, CollateralNext, and LiquidityNext—under a single framework. The primary objective is to enable financial institutions to shift from retrospective reporting to proactive decision-making, allowing…
Europe’s Fixed Income Revolution: How NLPs and Automation are Redefining the Bond Market
For years, the electronification of European fixed-income markets was a slow-burning fuse, lit primarily by the transparency mandates of MiFID II. However, the landscape is now shifting dramatically. No longer just a regulatory compliance exercise, the structural change in Europe’s government bond and credit markets is gaining genuine momentum, driven by the arrival of aggressive…
Electronification of European Fixed-Income Markets: How Participants Need to Up Their Tech Game
Structural change in Europe’s government bond and credit markets is now gaining momentum, as new entrants, with an emphasis on high-performance technology, are raising the bar in terms of technology and trading practices. The arrival of non-financial liquidity providers (NLPs) to the European arena represents the next phase in the electronification of European fixed-income markets,…
ION Integrates Tradeweb ETF RFQ Functionality into Fidessa Trading Platform
ION has announced that its Fidessa trading platform now supports Request for Quote (RFQ) functionality for Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), featuring an integration with the Tradeweb electronic trading platform. This collaboration allows mutual clients to access Tradeweb’s ETF RFQ workflow directly within their existing Fidessa environment, creating a seamless connection between the two systems for…
Bright Point International Expands FX and Precious Metals Operations Through Integral Partnership
Bright Point International Financial (BPI), a Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading and Clearing Member, has advanced its partnership with currency technology provider Integral. By implementing Integral’s Price Engine, Distribution, and Liquidity Aggregation products, BPI intends to scale its foreign exchange (FX) and precious metals operations. The new technology provides ultra-low latency access to a wide range…
Implementing Events-based Trading and Prediction Markets
By Jon Light, Senior Director of Product Management at Devexperts. The current surging interest in prediction markets is leading to a general reevaluation of this type of trading, with many financial services firms now questioning whether to offer events-based trading to their own users. To date, several high-profile firms have moved to incorporate prediction markets…