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Upcoming Webinar: The Vanishing Close: Rethinking Trade Surveillance for Always-On Markets
Date: 2 December 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Global markets are moving steadily towards longer and increasingly continuous trading. Extended-hours initiatives in US equities, the growth of overnight venues and the emergence of new markets and instruments are challenging assumptions that have underpinned trading and surveillance systems…
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…
Plus500 Agrees to Acquire Brazilian Broker-Dealer Guru to Expand Latin American Operations
Plus500 has conditionally agreed to acquire Brazilian broker-dealer Guru Corretora de TÃtulos e Valores Mobiliários, establishing a regulated local presence in Latin America’s largest economy and expanding its regional trading operations. Guru is regulated by the Central Bank of Brazil and the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM). The acquisition will provide Plus500 with local…
How AI is Reshaping the Buy/Build Calculus for Capital Markets Technology
Artificial intelligence is changing the economics of technology development across capital markets, making it faster and cheaper for firms to build their own applications. But while AI is lowering the barriers to software development, it is also raising questions about long-term ownership costs, the pace of vendor innovation and where firms should focus their technology…
HPR’s HYPRCUBE Matching Engine Achieves Five-Microsecond Latency in Independent Testing
HPR has announced the results of independent performance testing conducted by Exactpro on HYPRCUBE, its fully hardware-based exchange matching engine, demonstrating median order roundtrip latency of approximately five microseconds under production-like load conditions. HYPRCUBE uses an integrated hardware architecture designed to deliver deterministic latency and throughput reaching tens of millions of messages per second. The…
Recorded Webinar: Modernising Equities Trading Infrastructure: Architecture, Resilience and the Economics of Change
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 of the platforms that still underpin the equities industry were built for a different era –…
CME Group Introduces Baseball Futures Based on Team Performance Indexes
CME Group has announced the launch of what it describes as the world’s first baseball futures contracts, extending its derivatives offering into professional sports. The contracts were scheduled to begin trading on 12 October, subject to regulatory review. Developed with FutureSports, the contracts track CME FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI), which use official league statistics to…
Nasdaq Backs One Trading’s Push to Rethink Derivatives Market Infrastructure
Nasdaq Ventures’ strategic investment in One Trading, announced last week, could open the door to a different approach to derivatives market infrastructure, bringing technologies developed for digital asset trading into more traditional financial markets. The European regulated derivatives venue has built a platform that integrates execution, risk management and settlement, with an architecture designed to…
The Always-On Exchange: Rebuilding Market Infrastructure for 24/5 and Beyond
US equity markets are moving towards a much longer trading day. Major exchanges are preparing for 23-hour trading, five days a week, while the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently devoted a roundtable to the operational, resilience, clearing and market-structure implications. Overnight trading remains relatively small – accounting for less than 1% of NMS stock…
Where Should Trading Firms Spend Their Latency Budget?
The pursuit of lower latency in electronic trading hasn’t disappeared, but the engineering decisions behind it are becoming more selective. Rather than trying to make every component of the trading stack as fast as possible, firms need to determine where microseconds genuinely affect trading outcomes, where predictable performance matters more than absolute speed, and where…