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BLOX Markets Partners with Imandra to Deploy AI Infrastructure for Openpool
BLOX Markets has formed a strategic partnership with neurosymbolic AI firm Imandra to integrate its technology into Openpool, an upcoming retail-focused US equities trading venue. The platform will use Imandra Connectivity and CodeLogician as foundational components for its software assurance, certification, and connectivity infrastructure. The deployment replaces traditional static documentation and manual testing with Imandra’s…
SoftSolutions Integrates AI Capabilities Into nexRates Fixed-Income Trading Platform
SoftSolutions has integrated production-ready artificial intelligence into its nexRates fixed-income trading platform. The new tool allows traders to use plain language to automatically generate context-dependent Request for Quote (RFQ) layouts, workflow rules, and custom interfaces, eliminating the need for developer or vendor intervention. The AI operates strictly within a predefined catalogue of platform fields and…
Plus500 Launches Sports Event-Based Prediction Contracts in the US
Plus500, the global multi-asset fintech group, has expanded its product suite in the US by launching CFTC-regulated sports event-based financial contracts. Enabled by the group’s proprietary technology, these contracts allow retail customers to trade on sporting outcomes using prediction markets. The offering combines Plus500’s institutional-grade execution, clearing, and risk management infrastructure with an intuitive user…
Bloomberg Brings Electronic Trading to ABS, Fixed Income’s Last Holdout
Bloomberg’s launch of an electronic trading workflow for asset-backed securities, announced earlier this month, lands in an asset class that has resisted automation longer than most of fixed income. The list-based process, now being rolled out to clients across the US and EMEA, is built around the Bids Wanted in Competition and Offers Wanted in…
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…
TT Connects to Kalshi as the Institutional Case for Event Contracts Takes Shape
Trading Technologies has announced that it will support client execution on Kalshi, the largest US federally regulated prediction market, with trading expected to go live on the TT platform in the third quarter. It is the first regulated prediction market TT has connected to, and the firm frames it as the first of several regulated…
Institutions Are Already in Prediction Markets – As Data Consumers, Not Traders
The framing around institutional prediction markets assumes a gap that needs bridging: the markets exist, institutions are circling, and what stands between them is a stretch of missing infrastructure – clearing, margin, prime brokerage and surveillance. Build the scaffolding, the assumption runs, and the institutions follow. A panel at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit New…
The Race to the Trading Everything App
By Jon Light, Senior Director of Product Management at Devexperts. A major shake-up in retail trading venues is underway due to the expansion of crypto exchanges, neobanks, and zero-commission brokers into each other’s traditional territories. As the lines between these businesses continue to blur and users gain more access to a variety of assets and…
ICE Compass Sets AI Against Information Leakage in Fixed Income Trading
Earlier this month, ICE launched ICE Compass, an AI-driven pre-trade analytics platform that ranks dealers on the competitiveness of their pricing and estimates where a fixed income trade is likely to clear before the buy side signals any intention to transact. T. Rowe Price, which provided feedback through development and beta testing, has signed on…
The Compliance Challenge Shaping AI Adoption in Fixed Income
By Kevin Rutter, CEO, AIQ Markets. AI is rapidly becoming part of the buy-side technology stack. But before a portfolio manager can act on a recommendation or a trader can execute an idea generated by AI, firms must answer a more fundamental question: can they trust it? As buy-side firms move from experimentation toward production…