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Retail Flow Becomes Integral to Institutional Execution Strategies, says Horizon Report
New research from Horizon Trading Solutions reveals that retail trading has moved from the periphery to the core of financial markets, significantly altering institutional execution. A survey of traders at tier 2 and 3 banks and institutional brokers found that nearly two-thirds now attribute at least 40% of their total trading activity to retail flow….
ASX and LSEG Partner to Modernise ASX 24 Trading Platform
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has reached an agreement with LSEG Markets Technology to upgrade the ASX 24 trading platform. This partnership aims to bolster the growth and resilience of the venue, which serves as a primary hub for Australian and New Zealand interest rate, equity, and commodity derivatives. By leveraging LSEG’s global experience with…
Sphinx Targets 24/7 Energy Markets with Blockchain-Enabled Derivatives Exchange
A new entrant to the energy derivatives landscape is preparing to test whether modern trading infrastructure can reshape how energy risk is managed. Sphinx, a startup exchange operator, is developing a platform designed for continuous trading and near-instant settlement in energy derivatives, initially targeting U.S. natural gas and electricity markets. The Sphinx Global Commodity Exchange…
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…