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The Silo Tax: Why the Buy-Side Trading Desk can No Longer Afford its Own Structure
Take a look at any large buy-side trading operation and the architecture is much the same as it was a decade ago: separate teams for equities, FX, and fixed income, each running its own systems, its own data feeds, and its own operational headcount. The asset classes are different, the rationale runs, so the desks must be…
Albilad Capital Deploys Horizon Trading Solutions Platform
Albilad Capital has officially deployed the Horizon Trading Solutions platform, marking a strategic upgrade to its technological infrastructure. The move is designed to modernise the firm’s operational systems in response to the rapid expansion of the Saudi capital market. By adopting this technology, Albilad Capital aims to align its market-making and trading services with international…
Tickblaze Integrates Sterling OMS 360 to Enhance Real-Time Margin Enforcement
Sterling Trading Tech has announced that Tickblaze, an infrastructure engine for proprietary trading firms, has selected Sterling OMS 360 as its order management system. Tickblaze provides a multi-asset trading ecosystem connecting brokers, quants, and traders. By integrating Sterling’s technology into its stack, Tickblaze will make these advanced order management capabilities available to its entire end-client…
The Future of the Buy-Side Trading Desk
The buy-side trading desk of the future is asset-agnostic and AI-augmented. The defining characteristic is an architecture where clean, joined-up workflows across all products allow an agentic overlay to function reliably. For investment firms, the priority is to establish these common foundational layers now; firms that remain trapped in siloed, asset-specific stacks will find that…
The Buy-and-Build Line Keeps Moving – And That’s the Point
The old buy-versus-build debate in trading technology has been declared dead so many times it risks becoming a cliché. But at a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled How to move to a modern, component based trading architecture using a Buy AND Build approach, sponsored by interop.io, a sharper question surfaced beneath the familiar framing: if…
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…