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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…
Bloomberg Sees Sell-Side EMS Evolving into Central Control Plane for Electronic Trading
The role of the execution management system (EMS) in sell-side trading is expanding as banks seek to modernise their technology infrastructure while retaining control over proprietary pricing models, algorithms and analytics. Increasingly, the EMS is becoming a central control plane through which these capabilities can be integrated into electronic trading workflows, allowing firms to introduce…
How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Trading Desktop Interoperability
As banks and investment firms look to bring agentic AI into trading operations, the challenge is increasingly one of architecture: how to give AI access to the applications and context it needs while maintaining control over its actions. HERE, the financial desktop technology provider formerly known as OpenFin, recently held sessions with tier-one banks and…
Broadridge Integrates Kalshi Prediction Markets into CQG Trading Platform
Broadridge has integrated Kalshi event contracts into its CQG trading platform, enabling retail and institutional investors to access prediction markets alongside futures, options and equities through existing trading interfaces and APIs. The integration provides direct trading access and market data through CQG, incorporating event contracts into its execution, risk management and portfolio monitoring capabilities. Brokers…
B2BROKER Adds MCP Connectivity and Agentic Trading to B2TRADER Platform
B2BROKER has expanded the AI capabilities of its B2TRADER trading platform, introducing Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectivity and an integrated AI Chat interface to support account analysis and automated trading. The MCP integration allows traders to connect external AI agents, including Claude, ChatGPT and custom applications, to retrieve market data, review portfolios and issue natural-language…
Nasdaq Europe to Launch PureStream-Based Trajectory Trading in November
Nasdaq Europe plans to launch a new trajectory trading service in November 2026, using PureStream technology to help institutional investors execute large European equity orders while reducing market impact and information leakage. The service will match trading interest based on a specified percentage of future market volume, allowing orders to execute progressively at volume-weighted average…
Plus500 Becomes First External FCM to Offer Kalshi Perpetual Futures
Plus500 has launched Kalshi perpetual futures through its US Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), becoming the first FCM outside Kalshi Prime to offer the contracts to its customers. The launch extends Plus500’s existing partnership with Kalshi, which already covers prediction markets, and provides access to perpetual futures across its B2B and B2B2C distribution channels. Perpetual futures…
Belasko Launches Integrated Investor and Fund Manager Platforms for Private Markets
Belasko has launched two connected digital platforms designed to improve information access, communication and operational transparency for investors and fund managers across private markets. The Investor Experience Platform (IXP) provides limited partners with access to fund information, documents, announcements and investment opportunities, alongside tools for tracking queries, deadlines and upcoming activities. The Client Experience Platform…
United Fintech on AI, Shared Infrastructure and the New Economics of Capital Markets Technology
AI-assisted coding may be making software easier to develop, but getting it into banks remains a complex and costly process. These challenges are also reshaping the economics of specialist fintech providers, many of which face difficulties securing investment and achieving the scale required to serve major banking clients. For United Fintech, the financial technology group…
Reimagining the Trading Desk: Integration, AI and the Future of the O/EMS
The architecture of the trading desk is evolving as financial institutions seek to simplify fragmented technology environments, extend their multi-asset capabilities and incorporate AI into trading workflows. While the convergence of order management systems (OMS) and execution management systems (EMS) has been a longstanding industry objective, the emphasis is increasingly shifting towards interoperability, shared data…