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Leading Global Banks Join LTX as Fully Integrated Liquidity Providers
LTX, the AI-driven corporate bond e-trading platform backed by Broadridge Financial Solutions, has announced that Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, TD Securities, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America have joined as fully integrated liquidity providers. This expansion strengthens the platform’s capacity to provide investment-grade and high-yield bond liquidity to its growing network of over 40 providers…
Recorded Webinar: How to move to a modern, component based trading architecture using a Buy AND Build approach
To remain competitive in today’s electronic markets, firms need trading architectures that support rapid innovation, effortless integration of new capabilities, and the agility to respond to shifting market demands. This is prompting technology leaders to move beyond the traditional “Buy vs. Build” debate, a false dichotomy that oversimplifies the choice between generic, off-the-shelf platforms and…
TS Imagine Integrates OpenYield to Enhance Fixed Income Trading Efficiency
TS Imagine has announced the integration of OpenYield, an SEC-registered alternative trading system (ATS), into its TradeSmart platform. This partnership provides TradeSmart users with direct access to OpenYield’s all-to-all marketplace, facilitating automated liquidity for municipal, corporate, and government bonds. The move addresses the increasing demand for transparency and “equity-like” efficiency in fixed income markets, particularly…
From CFDs to Options: The Prop Sector’s Hardest Migration Yet?
The retail-facing prop trading sector – the funded account model that grew up around FX/CFD and futures trading platforms – spent 2024 in crisis. After a shakeout that wiped out an estimated 80 to 100 firms globally, the survivors have spent the past two years diversifying, first into futures, and now into exchange-traded options. The…
Building for the Next Big Event: What Prediction Market Operators Need from Exchange Technology
By Ian Salmon, Head of Product Marketing, Adaptive. Prediction markets have moved from the edges of the financial ecosystem into a space that increasingly resembles regulated market infrastructure. What began as a retail phenomenon around political events and sports outcomes has evolved into a sector attracting institutional capital, established exchanges and serious regulatory attention. The…
Trading Technologies Expands TT FX Platform to Include Forwards and Swaps
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) has announced a significant expansion of its TT FX platform, broadening its product coverage for institutional foreign exchange and precious metals traders. While previously focused on spot FX, the platform now supports forwards, NDFs, and swaps. This update integrates liquidity from a wider range of bank and non-bank providers, supplementing…
The Matching Engine Was Never the Hard Part: What 24/7 Really Demands of Exchange Architecture
The framing has become familiar. Digital asset exchanges, prediction markets and retail-driven platforms have normalised continuous trading. Traditional venues, with their nightly batch cycles and weekly maintenance windows, are now playing catch-up as they extend hours, tokenise assets and reach for new distribution models. The conventional answer is to point at the matching engine and…
Driving the Future of Capital Markets: A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2026 Winners Announced
A-Team Group is proud to reveal the winners of our Innovation Awards 2026, celebrating the visionary technology providers and practitioners redefining the landscape of financial services. Now in its sixth year, these awards recognise excellence in the deployment of new and emerging technologies across capital markets. This year’s recipients have demonstrated extraordinary ingenuity in solving…
Recorded Webinar: From 24/7 to Event-Driven: Engineering the Next-Generation Exchange Platform
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 retail-driven platforms have normalised 24/7 trading, continuous availability and rapid product iteration. In contrast, many traditional…
Building for a Market That Never Sleeps: Inside LSEG’s Real-Time Data Platform Optimisation
As data volumes surge and markets move toward 24/7 operation, LSEG is rebuilding the infrastructure that underpins its real-time data services – combining hyperscaler capabilities with private-cloud control to deliver scale, speed and resilience for the next generation of capital markets workflows. The forces reshaping real-time data The demands on real-time market data infrastructure are…