About a-team Marketing Services
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry

Browse by brand

RegTech Insight
TradingTech Insight
Data Management Insight

Browse by content type

A-Team Insight People

Rapid Addition Taps Former TR Enterprise Chief Powell as CEO

12 July 2019
Subscribe to our newsletter

High-performance trading technology supplier Rapid Addition has named Mike Powell CEO, reporting to Executive Chairman and FIX guru Kevin Houstoun. Powell is former managing director for the enterprise division of Thomson Reuters, now known as Refinitiv, responsible for the company’s core data feed and platform business under the Elektron brand. Powell has been working as a consultant and advisor since leaving TR in 2017. At Rapid Addition, he will spearhead the company’s initiatives in providing high-performance enterprise solutions for electronic trading using FIX/FAST and FPGA technologies. Says Houston: “We see significant opportunity in helping customers evolve their trading infrastructure as regulation continues to push the industry towards an increasingly electronic and transparent world.”

Subscribe to our newsletter

Related content

WEBINAR

Recorded Webinar: Best practice approaches for corporate actions automation

Demand for timely and accurate corporate actions data is growing as volumes and complexity rise, and financial institutions acknowledge the increasingly costly gap between accurate corporate actions processing in real, or near-real, time and faulty processing caused by poor data and resulting in missed opportunities to optimise revenue. While many firms currently process parts of...

Find out more

18 November 2021
Data Management Insight
BLOG

From Fragmented to Unified: KOR Streamlines SEC and CFTC Derivatives Reporting

In August, KOR received its license from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate as a Securities Based Swap Data Repository (SBSDR) and Securities Information Processor (SIP)—a milestone that positions it squarely within a particularly exclusive segment of the U.S. derivatives reporting environment. This achievement makes KOR only the second SBSDR in the country...

Read More

17 December 2024
RegTech Insight
EVENT

AI in Capital Markets Summit London

Now in its 3rd year, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns with a focus on the practicalities of onboarding AI enterprise wide for business value creation. Whilst AI offers huge potential to revolutionise capital markets operations many are struggling to move beyond pilot phase to generate substantial value from AI.

17 June 2026
Data Management Insight RegTech Insight TradingTech Insight
GUIDE

Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2023

After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now...

20 July 2023
TradingTech Insight