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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…
Upcoming Webinar: Modernising Equities Trading Infrastructure: Architecture, Resilience and the Economics of Change
Date: 14 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes 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…
Trading Technologies Expands Multi-Asset Push with TRAFiX Acquisition
Trading Technologies (TT) has acquired equities and equity options technology provider TRAFiX, filling a significant gap in its expanding multi-asset platform and setting out a roughly 12-month path towards integrating the two firms’ trading technology. The deal extends TT’s coverage into global equities and equity options through TRAFiX’s order and execution management systems (OEMS), FIX…
Why the Future Trading Desk Looks More Augmented Than Autonomous
After decades of electronification and automation, the next stage in the evolution of the buy-side trading desk may be less about removing traders from execution than changing the information, tools and decisions that reach them. That was one of the clearest themes to emerge from A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Insight webinar, The Buy-side Trading Desk…
Your Bourse Introduces Virtual Groups for Multi-Platform Routing
Your Bourse has introduced Virtual Groups, a new capability designed to simplify routing management for brokers operating across multiple connected trading platforms. The functionality allows brokers to combine native client groups from different trading servers into a single virtual grouping, enabling them to manage common routing requirements more centrally. Initial routing rules are configured on…
Recorded Webinar: The Buy-side Trading Desk of the Future
The buy-side trading desk is facing a structural reckoning. Decades of siloed systems for equities, FX and fixed income have created what COOs increasingly describe as a “silo tax” – duplicated headcount, fragmented data, and operational overhead that is harder to justify now that the underlying workflows have, in functional terms, converged. Thirty years of…
TS Imagine Pushes AI Deeper into Trading Workflows with TSIQ
TS Imagine is taking its use of artificial intelligence beyond information retrieval and analysis and into trading, portfolio and risk workflows with the launch of TSIQ, an AI platform designed to explain, recommend and – subject to user-defined controls – act. The launch follows a five-year, $100 million investment by the company in data, infrastructure…
Liquidnet Targets Fragmented Liquidity Landscape with Meridian
Liquidnet has brought its algorithmic trading capabilities together under a new proposition, Meridian, as institutional equity traders face an increasingly complex liquidity landscape spanning lit and dark venues, bilateral liquidity and other execution mechanisms. The launch is the culmination of an 11-year expansion of Liquidnet’s electronic trading business. Meridian combines its algorithms, analytics, quantitative services…
The economics of modernising equities trading infrastructure
Equities markets are becoming more fragmented, interconnected and continuously available. Liquidity is spreading across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending, and firms are processing more market data and supporting increasingly complex execution workflows. These changes are placing new demands on trading infrastructure. Many traditional platforms continue to deliver excellent latency and throughput, but were…
MEMX Launches MX2 as Options Expansion Gathers Pace
MEMX Group has launched MX2 Options, its second US listed-options exchange, adding a customer-priority, pro-rata market model as the exchange operator continues to broaden its footprint in options and build towards its planned combination with BOX. MX2 began trading on 14 September, processing more than 1,500 contracts across an initial 10 symbols on its first…