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Recorded Webinar: From 24/7 to Event-Driven: Engineering the Next-Generation Exchange Platform

What digital asset and prediction markets are teaching traditional exchanges about availability, agility and time-to-market. New market structures and regulatory changes are forcing exchange operators to rethink the foundations of their technology stacks. Digital asset exchanges, prediction markets and retail-driven platforms have normalised 24/7 trading, continuous availability and rapid product iteration. In contrast, many traditional...

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FlexTrade Partners with Portx to Place Portfolio Construction Inside the OEMS

Portfolio construction has historically sat upstream of the trading desk, in the portfolio manager’s own environment. And more often than the industry likes to admit, in a spreadsheet. FlexTrade, the multi-asset execution and order management systems vendor, has integrated the construction, optimisation and risk analytics of Portx, the London-based portfolio construction and analytics provider, into...

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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...