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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…

ExeQution Analytics Targets the FX Data Gap with Solas

ExeQution Analytics, the Australia-based trading analytics company, has launched Solas, a new analytics platform designed to help sell-side FX desks bring together market, trade, client and hedging data to gain a clearer view of trading performance, client behaviour and profitability. The platform, initially covering spot, forwards and non-deliverable forwards (NDFs), is aimed particularly at banks…

Sterling Launches STRIDER for 24-Hour Web and Mobile Trading

Sterling Trading Tech has launched STRIDER, an AI-driven web and mobile trading platform designed to support increasingly global and extended-hours trading. The platform provides 24/7 access to US equities and options trading through browsers and mobile devices, covering workflows ranging from straightforward equity execution to complex options strategies. It is interoperable with Sterling’s desktop environment…

Digital Assets Move Closer to the Institutional Trading Stack as Caplin Launches Hosted Platform

Institutional digital asset trading is beginning to confront a familiar problem: as the market grows, the technology supporting it has to move beyond specialist systems and manual workflows towards the kind of integrated infrastructure already established in markets such as FX. That shift is behind the launch of a new hosted, white-label digital asset trading…

ION and Coinbase Scale Infrastructure for Kalshi Event Contracts

Coinbase has selected ION’s XTP for Event Contracts to support clearing for Kalshi’s prediction market, providing automated, real-time processing for event-based contracts. The platform supports contract creation, resolution and settlement alongside real-time execution processing, with automated 24/7 operations and capacity to onboard tens of thousands of accounts per day. ION and Coinbase began working together…

FIX Extends Electronic Trading Standards to Securities Lending

The FIX Trading Community has published new guidance for electronic securities lending, establishing common workflow practices designed to support greater automation across the market. The guidelines provide a standard electronic messaging framework for securities lending contracts conducted bilaterally or through trading venues. They cover quote negotiation workflows, last look and Free of Payment (FOP) lending,…