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Horizon Launches New Smart Order Router to Enhance Execution and Liquidity Access
Horizon Trading Solutions has announced the launch of Horizon Compass, a next-generation Smart Order Router (SOR) designed to help institutional and retail brokers manage execution quality and market complexity more effectively. Targeting both large and regional brokers, the new SOR is engineered to meet evolving market demands, including the increasing fragmentation of liquidity and sustained…
Trading Technologies Launches TT Strategy Studio for Multi-Asset Algorithmic Trading
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) has launched TT Strategy Studio, a multi-asset algorithmic trading platform aimed at institutional trading firms, including quantitative firms, hedge funds, and energy companies. Announced during TradeTech Europe 2025 in Paris, the solution is part of TT Quantitative Trading Solutions (QTS) and is designed to allow firms to build, test, and…
Instinet Rebrands RFQ Venue to “BlockMatch Select” to Expand Liquidity Access
Instinet, the global agency-only broker, has rebranded its BlockMatch RFQ venue as “BlockMatch Select”, in response to growing buy-side demand for improved access to liquidity. This change marks a strategic update in Instinet’s multilateral trading facility (MTF), which will now comprise three trading books: BlockMatch Dark, BlockMatch Select, and BlockMatch NT. BlockMatch Select aims to…
Options Technology Relaunches Integrated Desktop as AtlasWorkplace for Buy-Side IT Solutions
Options Technology has announced the relaunch of its Integrated Desktop product under a new brand, AtlasWorkplace, aimed at serving Hedge Funds, Private Equity firms, Asset Managers, and other financial services organisations. AtlasWorkplace is designed to provide a secure, scalable IT infrastructure that meets the unique operational needs of buy-side firms. The platform combines managed services…
Trillium Surveyor and Blue Ocean Partner to Extend Trade Surveillance to Overnight Sessions
Trillium Surveyor, provider of trade surveillance and best execution analytics software, has partnered with Blue Ocean Technologies to integrate overnight trading data from Blue Ocean’s Alternative Trading System (ATS) into its trade surveillance platform, marking the first time such coverage is available for non-standard trading hours. The collaboration enables institutional clients to monitor trading activity…
A Look Ahead to This Year’s AI in Capital Markets Summit London
On 22 May, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns to London for its second year, bringing together data, technology, and innovation leaders from across the financial services sector for a full day of discussion around AI strategy, deployment, and governance. Held at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London City, this A-Team Group event will examine…
LDA Technologies Launches Low-Jitter Multicast Distribution System for Fairer Market Data Access
LDA Technologies, provider of ultra-low latency, networking and FPGA technology, has launched a new multicast distribution system designed to address longstanding fairness issues in market data delivery for electronic trading. The system synchronises exchange customer ports to within 50 picoseconds, an improvement of 98% over conventional Layer 1 switches, enabling exchanges to distribute data uniformly…
Genesis Launches MCP Server to Bridge AI Agents with Enterprise Applications
Genesis Global, the application development framework provider, has introduced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server to provide a controlled and compliant interface between large language models (LLMs) and enterprise applications built on its platform. The MCP Server supports the emerging open MCP standard, which aims to unify how software applications deliver operational and contextual data to…
Kafi Securities Goes Live on Horizon Trading Platform to Drive Market Expansion in Vietnam
Horizon Trading Solutions, the electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology provider, has announced that Kafi Securities Corporation, a financial services company based in Vietnam, has gone live on its trading platform. The deployment supports Kafi’s strategic goal of expanding into market making and advanced trading across the Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi Stock Exchanges. Horizon’s…
Citi and SDX Partner to Tokenise Pre-IPO Equities for Institutional Investors
Citi and SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) have announced a strategic collaboration to enhance access to private market assets through tokenisation, with a new solution expected to go live by Q3 2025. Unveiled at the Point Zero Forum in Switzerland, the initiative aims to address longstanding inefficiencies in traditional private markets for both issuers and investors….