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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…
Upcoming Webinar: Optimising cloud, marketplaces & managed data services
Date: 30 June 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Financial institutions are under mounting pressure to rethink how they source, manage and distribute market data. Rising data volumes, multi-cloud adoption and the operational demands of regulations such as DORA are exposing the limits of legacy infrastructure, and driving…
Upcoming Webinar: Agility as Alpha: How Trading Infrastructure Determines Who Wins in Volatile Markets
Date: 21 May 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Tariff shocks, geopolitical realignment and macroeconomic regime shifts are redrawing the investment landscape faster than most firms’ technology stacks can keep up. For hedge funds and asset managers, the ability to move quickly into new asset classes, geographies or…
Upcoming Webinar: Navigating the Build vs Buy Dilemma: Cloud Strategies for Accelerating Quantitative Research
Date: 20 May 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes For many quantitative trading firms and asset managers, building a self-provisioned historical market data environment remains one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive steps in establishing a new research capability. Sourcing data, normalising symbologies, handling corporate actions and maintaining…
The Buy-and-Build Line Keeps Moving – And That’s the Point
The old buy-versus-build debate in trading technology has been declared dead so many times it risks becoming a cliché. But at a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled How to move to a modern, component based trading architecture using a Buy AND Build approach, sponsored by interop.io, a sharper question surfaced beneath the familiar framing: if…
Recorded Webinar: How to move to a modern, component based trading architecture using a Buy AND Build approach
To remain competitive in today’s electronic markets, firms need trading architectures that support rapid innovation, effortless integration of new capabilities, and the agility to respond to shifting market demands. This is prompting technology leaders to move beyond the traditional “Buy vs. Build” debate, a false dichotomy that oversimplifies the choice between generic, off-the-shelf platforms and…
Building for the Next Big Event: What Prediction Market Operators Need from Exchange Technology
By Ian Salmon, Head of Product Marketing, Adaptive. Prediction markets have moved from the edges of the financial ecosystem into a space that increasingly resembles regulated market infrastructure. What began as a retail phenomenon around political events and sports outcomes has evolved into a sector attracting institutional capital, established exchanges and serious regulatory attention. The…
The Matching Engine Was Never the Hard Part: What 24/7 Really Demands of Exchange Architecture
The framing has become familiar. Digital asset exchanges, prediction markets and retail-driven platforms have normalised continuous trading. Traditional venues, with their nightly batch cycles and weekly maintenance windows, are now playing catch-up as they extend hours, tokenise assets and reach for new distribution models. The conventional answer is to point at the matching engine and…
New Cloud-Native OMS Valstro Goes Live at Top-Ten US Equities House
Sell-side equities order management is not a market that often welcomes new entrants. The platforms that broker-dealers run on tend to have been in production for a decade or more, and the cost of switching has long been a deterrent to anyone considering a move. New York-headquartered Valstro, which emerged from stealth this month with…
SGX FX and Rand Merchant Bank Partner to Enhance African Currency Liquidity
SGX FX and Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) have launched a strategic partnership to improve global access to African currency markets. By integrating RMB’s liquidity engine into SGX FX’s global infrastructure, the collaboration aims to meet the rising international demand for electronic trading in emerging markets. This move strengthens SGX FX’s presence across the continent and…