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Upcoming Webinar: Post-Trade Transformation: Automating Clearing & Settlement
Date: 1 December 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The UK, EU and Swiss markets move to T+1 settlement on 11 October 2027, but the first binding compression arrives almost a year earlier. ESMA’s amended settlement discipline RTS expects allocation and confirmation completed by 23:00 CET on trade…
Upcoming Webinar: From Monolith to Modular: Architecting Equity Trading Platforms for 24/5 and Beyond
Date: 14 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Equities markets are entering a more distributed, always-on phase. Liquidity is fragmenting across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending toward 24/5 and beyond, and market data volumes, investor expectations and competitive pressure are all rising at once. Many…
Upcoming Webinar: Reviewing the Latency Landscape and the Next Generation of Ultra-Low Latency Infrastructure
Date: 17 September 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Ultra-low latency is no longer the preserve of a handful of proprietary trading firms. As new asset classes electronify, data volumes surge, and regulatory expectations around execution quality and resilience tighten, the performance demands on trading infrastructure are broadening…
Kalshi Takes Prediction Markets into European Securities Infrastructure
Prediction markets are moving another step towards the infrastructure of conventional capital markets, with Kalshi partnering with FCA-regulated structured products issuer Otala.Markets to make exposure to selected event contracts available to European investors through listed securities. Under the agreement, Otala will issue securities referencing markets traded on Kalshi, beginning with contracts linked to US Federal…
Putting Quantum Computing to the Algo Trading Test
Quantum computing has long been discussed in capital markets as a technology with potentially transformative applications, but one whose practical impact remains some way off. Recent work by HSBC and IBM suggests the gap between quantum research and real-world trading may be starting to narrow. In a study using production-scale European corporate bond trading data,…
Exegy Whitepaper Highlights Rising Infrastructure Tax of Continuous Global Trading
A new whitepaper from Exegy reveals that trading firms face mounting operational complexity and an “infrastructure tax” as capital markets expand across geographies, asset classes, and continuous trading hours. With technical debt already consuming an estimated 21% to 40% of enterprise IT budgets, firms are under pressure to scale market access without compounding their operational…
Xceptor Launches Sovereign-Grade SaaS in Switzerland and Japan
Xceptor has expanded its sovereign-grade SaaS offering into Switzerland and Japan, adding dedicated hosting regions on Microsoft Azure to satisfy local data residency and regulatory requirements. The rollout allows capital markets firms in both jurisdictions to deploy data automation, artificial intelligence, and trade confirmation tools within dedicated, encrypted client environments. Globally, the SaaS platform supports…
Bruce Markets and ABN AMRO Tackle the Infrastructure Challenge of 24×5 US Equities
The push towards near-continuous trading in US equities is moving beyond the question of whether execution venues can remain open overnight. Increasingly, attention is turning to whether the market infrastructure surrounding those venues, from clearing and market data to routing, risk management and operations, can support the same extended trading window. That shift is reflected…
MEMX Maps Technology and Product Expansion Following TMX-BOX Deal
Two weeks after announcing its proposed US$2.3 billion combination with BOX, MEMX is beginning to map out how the enlarged group will integrate its technology, broaden its options offering and support expansion into new products and asset classes. Jonathan Kellner, chief executive of MEMX, tells TradingTech Insight that the combination will bring together three distinct…
LDA Targets 25G Connectivity Gap with High-Density Layer 1 Fabric
As trading firms and exchanges move beyond 10GbE connectivity towards 25GbE and 100GbE, the surrounding infrastructure needs to evolve with them. While high-density Layer 1 connectivity has long been available at 10G, providing similar levels of flexibility and port density at 25G has proved more challenging. LDA Technologies is seeking to address that gap with…