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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…
WFE Signals Extended Trading Hours Feasible, but Warns Settlement Systems Must Catch Up
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has published new research concluding that extended trading hours, including near round-the-clock markets, are technologically feasible, but their long-term sustainability depends on coordinated reform across clearing, settlement and payment infrastructure. In Extending Exchange Trading Hours, the WFE examines proposals from major U.S. exchanges to expand equity trading toward 22-…
Optimal Launches Options Execution Platform Built on Competitive Allocation Model
Optimal Market Technologies the US-registered broker-dealer focused on options execution, has launched a new US listed options execution platform backed by several leading global market makers, introducing a model designed to allocate order flow based on measured execution performance rather than fixed or single-counterparty arrangements. The platform combines an options Alternative Trading System (ATS) with…
Tradeweb and Kalshi Announce Strategic Partnership to Expand Institutional Access to Prediction Markets
Tradeweb, the global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities, and money markets, and Kalshi, the world’s largest prediction market, have formed a strategic partnership to expand institutional access to Kalshi’s prediction market data. The collaboration also includes plans to support institutional-grade event contract trading via Tradeweb’s platform. The announcement brings a regulated prediction…
LMAX Group Launches Omnia Exchange as Cross-Asset Liquidity Orchestration Layer
LMAX Group has launched Omnia Exchange, a new infrastructure layer designed to enable institutions to exchange any asset against any other in real time through a single API, unifying FX, crypto, stablecoins and other digital assets within a single execution environment. Built on LMAX Group’s existing exchange technology and liquidity infrastructure, the platform combines blockchain-based…
Jefferies Selects TS Imagine to Power Fixed Income Outsourced Trading
Global investment banking firm Jefferies has adopted TS Imagine’s integrated order and execution management platform. This partnership aims to enhance Jefferies’ Fixed Income Outsourced Trading offering by unifying trading, portfolio management, and risk oversight within a single, scalable infrastructure. The end-to-end solution is designed to streamline complex workflows and improve execution quality across diverse fixed…
SimCorp Chosen as AllianceBernstein’s Investment Tech Provider
Investment management firm AllianceBernstein has selected SimCorp as its core investment technology partner in an agreement that will see the implementation of the SimCorp One platform to serve as front-to-back infrastructure for the firm. This transition aims to provide investment teams with centralised, real-time data and proprietary tools for trading. The firm’s platforms will be…
Infrastructure Modernisation, Intelligent Workflows, Data Strategy and More: A Preview of TradingTech Summit London 2026
The conversation around trading technology has become more exacting over the past year. AI is moving into production environments. Data estates are being rationalised and rebuilt. Infrastructure decisions are increasingly shaped by resilience, transparency and regulatory pressure. Against that backdrop, A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 takes place at a time when firms are reassessing…