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24-hour Derivatives Trading – Is this Really a Good Idea?
By Paul Cottee, Director, Regulatory Compliance, NICE Actimize. Are we soon to face a market with 24-hour a day derivatives trading? It might well be coming sooner than we think. Currently, the ongoing debate in the US derivative markets has been significantly influenced by the recent proposal issued on April 21 from the Commodity Futures…
Horizon Launches New Smart Order Router to Enhance Execution and Liquidity Access
Horizon Trading Solutions has announced the launch of Horizon Compass, a next-generation Smart Order Router (SOR) designed to help institutional and retail brokers manage execution quality and market complexity more effectively. Targeting both large and regional brokers, the new SOR is engineered to meet evolving market demands, including the increasing fragmentation of liquidity and sustained…
Trillium Surveyor and Blue Ocean Partner to Extend Trade Surveillance to Overnight Sessions
Trillium Surveyor, provider of trade surveillance and best execution analytics software, has partnered with Blue Ocean Technologies to integrate overnight trading data from Blue Ocean’s Alternative Trading System (ATS) into its trade surveillance platform, marking the first time such coverage is available for non-standard trading hours. The collaboration enables institutional clients to monitor trading activity…
SET and Nasdaq Expand Technology Partnership to Modernise Thai Capital Markets
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and Nasdaq have announced an expansion of their strategic technology partnership, aimed at modernising Thailand’s capital markets and enhancing overall market resilience, transparency, and regulatory alignment. As part of the expanded collaboration, SET will promote broader adoption of Nasdaq’s risk and surveillance platforms among its member firms. This follows…
A Look Ahead to This Year’s AI in Capital Markets Summit London
On 22 May, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns to London for its second year, bringing together data, technology, and innovation leaders from across the financial services sector for a full day of discussion around AI strategy, deployment, and governance. Held at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London City, this A-Team Group event will examine…
LDA Technologies Launches Low-Jitter Multicast Distribution System for Fairer Market Data Access
LDA Technologies, provider of ultra-low latency, networking and FPGA technology, has launched a new multicast distribution system designed to address longstanding fairness issues in market data delivery for electronic trading. The system synchronises exchange customer ports to within 50 picoseconds, an improvement of 98% over conventional Layer 1 switches, enabling exchanges to distribute data uniformly…
Genesis Launches MCP Server to Bridge AI Agents with Enterprise Applications
Genesis Global, the application development framework provider, has introduced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server to provide a controlled and compliant interface between large language models (LLMs) and enterprise applications built on its platform. The MCP Server supports the emerging open MCP standard, which aims to unify how software applications deliver operational and contextual data to…
Citi and SDX Partner to Tokenise Pre-IPO Equities for Institutional Investors
Citi and SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) have announced a strategic collaboration to enhance access to private market assets through tokenisation, with a new solution expected to go live by Q3 2025. Unveiled at the Point Zero Forum in Switzerland, the initiative aims to address longstanding inefficiencies in traditional private markets for both issuers and investors….
SOLVE Expands AI-Powered Municipal Bond Pricing Tool with Relative Value Analysis Feature
SOLVE, the provider of pre-trade data and predictive pricing for fixed income markets, has introduced a new Relative Value Analysis capability to its AI-driven municipal bond pricing platform, SOLVE Px. The enhancement is aimed at improving transparency and decision-making for municipal bond traders, portfolio managers, and risk teams. The newly released feature allows users to…
Unlocking Competitive Edge: Outsourcing and Managed Services in Trading Technology
Faced with intensifying cost pressures, regulatory shifts, evolving market dynamics and rapid technological change, capital markets firms are seeing the roles of outsourcing and managed services becoming increasingly strategic. But how do they decide what to outsource and what to retain in-house? How can they preserve agility and oversight while handing over key infrastructure? And…