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Continuous Trading and the Death of End-of-Day

As US equities and other markets move toward continuous, around-the-clock trading, firms face a set of infrastructure questions the traditional trading day never forced them to answer. A panel at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit New York was convened to work through them: how to build a resilient foundation without adding operational risk; how to…

Waypoint Trading Solutions Enables Day-One Connectivity to Texas Stock Exchange

Waypoint Trading Solutions, a TNS business, has announced it will provide immediate connectivity to the Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) from its launch day. This addition allows Waypoint clients to access the new platform alongside other exchanges and alternative trading systems, including all 22 US equities venues and overnight markets. Headquartered in Dallas, TXSE is a…

Avelacom Completes Network Optimisations for Low-Latency Trading from Shanghai

Avelacom has completed a series of network optimisations from the Shanghai Tonglian Data Centre, to improve connectivity between Shanghai and major global financial hubs, including Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, and Chicago. The newly optimised routes deliver round-trip delays of under 16.5 milliseconds to Hong Kong, less than 50 milliseconds to Singapore, and under 24 milliseconds…

GTN and Koscom Partner to Build Global Order Hub for Korean Securities Firms

Global fintech provider GTN has signed an agreement with Koscom, the IT infrastructure provider for Korea’s capital markets, to develop a ‘Global Order Hub’. Signed on 16 June in Seoul, the partnership creates a next-generation order-routing infrastructure, offering Korean securities firms a single gateway to international markets. Under the deal, GTN will act as a…

Modular vs Extensible Modular: Choosing Technology for Prediction Markets

By Daniel Davis, Chief Revenue Officer, Connamara Technologies. Ask most people how a new trading venue should approach its technology, and the answer comes back as a binary: build it yourself, or buy something off the shelf. Build, and you own everything, but you spend years getting to your first trade. Buy, and you launch…

Integral and StoneX Expand Partnership to Boost APAC Trading Infrastructure

Integral, the currency technology provider, has extended its long-term partnership with global financial services firm StoneX Group Inc. The collaboration establishes connectivity at the Equinix SG1 data facility in Singapore, a move designed to strengthen StoneX’s capabilities and client service across the Asia-Pacific region. The localised deployment will allow StoneX to lower latency and enhance…

Waypoint Trading Solutions Expands European Footprint with Launch in Equinix MD6 Data Centre

Waypoint Trading Solutions, a TNS business, is expanding its European exchange connectivity services by launching managed hosting and ultra-low latency Layer 1 connectivity at the Equinix MD6 data centre in Madrid. This expansion prepares for Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) migrating its matching engines from Las Rozas to MD6 in the second quarter of 2027….

Beeks Wins Three Market Edge Intelligence Deals Worth Almost $10m

Beeks Financial Cloud Group has signed three contracts worth a combined total of almost $10 million for Market Edge Intelligence, its AI-powered analytics platform, less than a year after the product launched in August 2025. The wins span a Global Tier 1 Investment Bank, an existing global financial services customer and a leading US equities…

What the 2026 TradingTech Insight Awards USA Reveal About the Direction of the Trading Stack

The trading stack that North American capital markets ran on five years ago is not the one they run on now. Front-office systems that once stood alone are being asked to talk to one another. Data that was once simply delivered is now expected to drive decisions. And the question vendors hear from buy-side and…

Guide to Prediction Market Technology: Building the Next Generation of Event-Based Exchanges

Following the momentum and buzz surrounding prediction markets during the 2024 US elections, event-based trading has rapidly emerged as one of the most dynamic growth areas in capital markets. What was once considered a niche segment has evolved into a global opportunity, attracting established exchanges, everyday participants, fintech innovators, and entrepreneurs seeking to launch new…