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Upcoming Webinar: Enhancing trader efficiency with interoperability – Innovative solutions for automated and streamlined trader desktop and workflows
17 September 2025 10:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes Traders today are expected to navigate increasingly complex markets using workflows that often lag behind the pace of change. Disconnected systems, manual processes, and fragmented user experiences create hidden inefficiencies that directly impact performance and risk management. Firms that can streamline…
BTON Secures Celero Ventures Investment to Fuel US Expansion and AI-Powered Execution Tools
BTON, the AI-driven trading technology provider, has secured a strategic investment from Celero Ventures to accelerate its expansion into the U.S. market and further develop its suite of intelligent execution tools for the buy-side. The funding round will see BTON enhance its engineering capabilities and build out its client support teams in the United States….
FCA Approves London Stock Exchange to Launch World’s First Regulated Private Stock Market
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has approved the London Stock Exchange to operate PISCES, the world’s first regulated private stock market. The platform will allow trading of shares in private companies on an intermittent basis, using mechanisms such as periodic auctions or limited continuous trading sessions. PISCES (The Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System)…
Marex Expands Asia-Pacific Presence with Launch of China Internationalised Futures Contracts
Marex Group plc has begun offering clients direct access to China Internationalised Futures Contracts, enabling electronic execution and clearing across 24 futures and options products. The offering covers contracts from the Shanghai International Energy Exchange, Dalian Commodity Exchange and Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, spanning agricultural commodities, energy, metals and freight. This follows Marex’s approval from the…
AI Personalization in Trading: Where We Are and Where We’re Heading
Ivan Kunyankin, Data Science Team Lead at Devexperts. AI may have started out its brokerage career in back-office, enhancing operational efficiency by providing human teams with actionable client insights, but it’s now being promoted to more sensitive client-facing roles. As AI tools continue to evolve and become normalized in more areas of daily life, financial…
Platform-Led Strategies for Solving Market Data Fragmentation, Cost and Governance Challenges
For any Chief Data Officer or Head of Trading Technology, the line item for market data is both one of the largest and most complex to manage. The challenge is no longer simply about plumbing feeds into applications. It is a strategic imperative to control spiralling costs, integrate a chaotic mix of traditional and alternative…
Monaco Protocol Launches With Hybrid Architecture to Bring “Wall Street-Grade” Execution to DeFi
Monaco, a new decentralised trading protocol, has officially launched on the Sei blockchain, aiming to provide institutional-grade infrastructure for the burgeoning tokenised asset market, which is projected to reach $30 trillion by 2034. The protocol, incubated by Sei Labs and Monaco Research, introduces a hybrid trading model it claims can achieve “microsecond execution” on par…
Beyond the Monolith: Crafting the Agile Trading Stack for the Modern Era
For decades, the central question for any firm designing its trading systems architecture has been a seemingly binary choice: buy an off-the-shelf platform or build a proprietary one in-house? The ‘buy’ camp argued for speed to market and vendor-managed upkeep, while the ‘build’ camp championed bespoke functionality and control over intellectual property. Today, this long-standing…
Thoma Bravo and 7RIDGE Partner to Drive Next Phase of Trading Technologies’ Growth
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), the global provider of capital markets technology, has announced a strategic partnership between its current owner, 7RIDGE, and Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm. This move follows a thorough search for an investment partner to support TT’s next phase of expansion. 7RIDGE initially acquired TT in December 2021. Thoma…
Ardea Investment Management Selects SimCorp One to Modernise Investment Operations
SimCorp has announced that Ardea Investment Management, an Australia-based fixed income manager with AUD 18 billion in assets under management, has chosen its SimCorp One platform to enhance operational efficiency and automate investment processes. The firm’s high-volume, relative value trading strategy will benefit from streamlined middle office operations and improved client reporting through the platform’s…