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BGC Group and Leading Banks Launch FMX Futures Exchange, Offering SOFR Futures Trading
BGC Group, Inc. has launched the FMX Futures Exchange in collaboration with ten leading investment banks and market-making firms. The new exchange, which is now live, offers trading of SOFR futures, the largest notional futures contract globally. Plans are in place to introduce U.S. treasury futures by Q1 2025. The FMX Futures Exchange aims to…
Nasdaq and BYMA Expand Partnership to Overhaul Argentina’s Post-Trade Ecosystem
Nasdaq and BYMA, Argentina’s leading stock exchange group, have expanded their technology partnership to overhaul BYMA’s entire post-trade ecosystem using Nasdaq technology. As part of the agreement, BYMA will implement Nasdaq’s real-time clearing platform at its central counterparty clearinghouse (CCP), enhancing the speed, capacity, and risk management of its post-trade operations. This new platform complements…
ICE and IPC Systems Launch ICE Voice for Integrated Trading Communications
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), together with trading communications solutions provider IPC Systems, has successfully launched the ICE Voice platform it announced earlier this year. ICE Voice is a cloud-based audio solution integrated into ICE Chat, ICE’s instant messaging platform for commodities traders and other global market participants with over 120,000 users. The new ICE Voice…
BGC Group to Launch FMX Futures Exchange for U.S. Interest Rate Futures
BGC Group, Inc, in collaboration with ten leading global investment banks and market-making firms, has announced the launch of the FMX Futures Exchange (FMX) for U.S. interest rate futures. The new exchange will go live on Monday, 23 September 2024, at 9:00 p.m. ET, initially offering Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) futures, with plans to…
London Stock Exchange Group Acquires Veris Post-Trade Processing Business from Axoni
Trade workflow applications and real-time data replication technology provider Axoni has agreed to sell its post-trade processing business and related intellectual property to the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). Launched in 2020, Veris is a post-trade reconciliation and lifecycle management platform for equity swaps, used by leading banks and asset managers. The platform streamlines data…
Inside CME Group’s Strategic Migration: Moving Globex to Google Cloud
Earlier this summer, CME Group and Google Cloud announced plans to create a new, ultra-low latency private Google Cloud region and co-location facility in Aurora, Illinois, marking a major step forward in their strategic partnership, originally announced in November 2021. With these plans now taking shape, the CME has published “CME Globex on Google Cloud,”…
Adaptive and Google Cloud Partner with Bullish to Enhance Trading Capacity of Digital Assets Exchange
Adaptive Financial Consulting (Adaptive) has announced a multi-year partnership with Bullish, a rapidly growing regulated digital asset exchange, to enhance trading capacity and throughput. The collaboration aims to support Bullish’s scalability in response to rising business demand. As part of the agreement, Bullish will replace its current messaging technology with Adaptive’s Aeron Premium and receive…
LO:TECH Secures $1.6 Million in Seed Funding and Introduces Market Making as a Service for Digital Assets
Low Observable Technology (LO:TECH), the London-based digital asset trading firm, has raised $1.6 million in a seed funding round led by Lightspeed Faction, a prominent venture capital firm focused on the cryptocurrency sector. Additional participation came from Blockchain Coinvestors and Chris Adelsbach. LO:TECH provides liquidity to global markets through its advanced trading solutions and intends…
Advantage Futures Migrates to ION’s XTP Platform for Enhanced Trade Processing
ION, the trading and risk management solutions vendor, has successfully migrated Advantage Futures, a high-volume futures commission merchant, to its cleared derivatives trade processing platform, XTP. The transition marks a shift for Advantage Futures from its decades-old post-trade technology to a more advanced system, enabling extensive automation across clearing and settlement workflows. The XTP platform…
The Promise of Automation and the Perils of Standing Still
By Roger Golesworthy, Trading Director, Infront. For firms all over the UK in the trading business, speed and efficiency are essential. These set the base for providing clients with better returns. Behind the curtain, though, firms have a patchwork of systems and software that sit in-between humans and financial instruments. Systems which must meet a…