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Recorded Webinar: Agility as Alpha: How Trading Infrastructure Determines Who Wins in Volatile Markets

Tariff shocks, geopolitical realignment and macroeconomic regime shifts are redrawing the investment landscape faster than most firms’ technology stacks can keep up. For hedge funds and asset managers, the ability to move quickly into new asset classes, geographies or strategies is no longer just an operational concern – it is a front-office differentiator and, increasingly,...

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ARMs Get Their Own Trade Body as Transaction Data Takes Over MiFIR Transparency

A structural shift in how ESMA calibrates the MiFIR transparency regime has handed Approved Reporting Mechanisms (ARMs) a more central role in market data infrastructure than they have held since MiFID II went live in 2018. Under the simplification programme tied to the MiFIR Review, ESMA has discontinued the dedicated reporting flows on which transparency...

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TradingTech Summit New York

Our TradingTech Summit in New York is aimed at senior-level decision makers in trading technology, electronic execution, trading architecture and offers a day packed with insight from practitioners and from innovative suppliers happy to share their experiences in dealing with the enterprise challenges facing our marketplace.

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Alternative Data in Capital Markets Handbook 2026

Alternative data adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. Simply possessing a dataset is no longer a differentiator – the priority now is how data is sourced, synthesised and deployed, and how quickly granular, disaggregated signals can be turned into validated, decision-ready insight. The 2026 edition of the Alternative Data in...