TradingTech Insight Trading Systems & Workflow The latest content from across the platform
Bloomberg Builds Out Pre-Trade TCA Functionality to Fixed Income
Bloomberg has launched a new pre-trade transaction cost analysis (TCA) model to assist fixed-income market participants with trading decisions. The system calculates potential costs, executable volumes, and the likelihood of execution for sovereign and corporate bonds. The model uses five years of historical transaction data alongside factors such as bond age, currency and the real-time…
Why Prediction Markets Have to Survive the Events They Launch For
By Daniel Davis, Chief Revenue Officer, Connamara Technologies. Every prediction market operator knows the clock is running. The opportunity in this sector is tied to things that happen on fixed dates: an election, a championship final, a central bank decision, or a geopolitical flashpoint. But if a venue isn’t trading before the event, it doesn’t…
Is Speed No Longer the Hard Part in Trading Infrastructure?
A panel of high-performance trading infrastructure architects, convened at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit New York to discuss the blueprint for speed, spent remarkably little of its time talking about speed. The tick-to-trade race still runs, and firms still shave nanoseconds where a strategy justifies it, but raw latency is the part this end of…
A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report
A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…
Lloyds Joins Integral’s Network as an FX Liquidity Provider
Integral, the currency technology provider, has added Lloyds to its ecosystem as a liquidity provider. The partnership is designed to expand Integral’s institutional foreign exchange (FX) network. The integration enables Integral’s global clients to access Lloyds’ FX pricing for key currency products through a single technology system. By adding the bank to its platform, Integral…
FIX Trading Community Releases Standardised Outage Communication Practices
The FIX Trading Community has introduced a standard methodology, the Outage Communication Recommended Practices, to automate the electronic communication of market outages. Previously, outage notifications were inconsistent and largely manual, which often worsened the impact of technical disruptions. This new framework allows exchanges and market participants to issue timely, consistent updates and resolutions. The initiative…
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…