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Upcoming Webinar: From 24/7 to Event-Driven: Engineering the Next-Generation Exchange Platform

Date: 28 April 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes What digital asset and prediction markets are teaching traditional exchanges about availability, agility and time-to-market. New market structures and regulatory changes are forcing exchange operators to rethink the foundations of their technology stacks. Digital asset exchanges, prediction markets and…

AiMi Launches AI-Driven Incident Management Solution for Capital Markets

AiMi, the fintech specialising in agentic AI for trading operations, has introduced a new Incident Management solution to help capital markets firms manage trading venue and vendor-related outages. The platform uses autonomous AI agents to ingest and structure fragmented service alerts, maintenance updates, and degradation notices from exchanges and service providers in real time. By…

Challenging the Status Quo: Re-imagining the Trading Desk for 2026 and Beyond

The opening session of A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit Europe set a pragmatic tone for the discussions that followed. In a fireside chat between Stuart Lawrence, Head of EMEA Equity Trading at UBS Asset Management, and Monika Fernando, Product Leader, FinTech & Digital Platforms and former Head of Global FI Client Data & Analytics at…

ION Group Registered as Independent Software Vendor for BSE Equity Derivatives

ION has secured registration as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) with BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) for its equity derivatives segment. This milestone follows official certification of ION’s Fidessa trading platform, which has been verified as fully compliant with all exchange rules and regulatory standards. The approval allows exchange members to utilise Fidessa for futures…

Cicada Secures US$13.5 Million Series A Funding to Digitalise Latin American Bond Markets

Cicada, the US-regulated electronic trading platform, has raised US$13.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Citi. The investment includes participation from B3 (the Brazilian Stock Exchange) via its venture capital arm L4, alongside Kaszek, Dila, and Crestone. A parallel strategic equity program has also been established to attract leading Wall Street institutions…

Celebrating Excellence at the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026

The pace of change across trading technology shows no sign of slowing. As markets become more complex, data-intensive and performance-driven, firms are rethinking how infrastructure, analytics and execution workflows interconnect across the trading lifecycle. Against this backdrop, the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026 brought the industry together to recognise the solution providers delivering measurable impact…

STS Digital Secures $30m Strategic Investment to Scale Institutional Crypto Options Platform

STS Digital, the digital-asset derivatives trading firm and market access provider, has closed a $30 million strategic funding round led by CMT Digital, with participation from Payward (the financial infrastructure platform behind cryptocurrency exchange Kraken), Strobe Ventures, Arrington Capital, F-Prime (Fidelity) and BitRock Capital, as the firm looks to accelerate the growth of its crypto…

Trading Technologies to Launch Direct Connectivity to National Stock Exchange of India

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) plans to provide clients with direct connectivity to the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) in 2026. This initiative follows a rise in demand from both domestic and international institutional clients seeking access to Indian markets. As an officially empaneled vendor of the NSE, TT has formalised an agreement to…

WFE Signals Extended Trading Hours Feasible, but Warns Settlement Systems Must Catch Up

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has published new research concluding that extended trading hours, including near round-the-clock markets, are technologically feasible, but their long-term sustainability depends on coordinated reform across clearing, settlement and payment infrastructure. In Extending Exchange Trading Hours, the WFE examines proposals from major U.S. exchanges to expand equity trading toward 22-…

Optimal Launches Options Execution Platform Built on Competitive Allocation Model

Optimal Market Technologies the US-registered broker-dealer focused on options execution, has launched a new US listed options execution platform backed by several leading global market makers, introducing a model designed to allocate order flow based on measured execution performance rather than fixed or single-counterparty arrangements. The platform combines an options Alternative Trading System (ATS) with…