Shinhan Securities Vietnam Adopts Horizon Platform for Market Making and Brokerage on HOSE

Horizon Trading Solutions, provider of electronic trading technology, has announced that Shinhan Securities Vietnam is now live on its multi-asset trading and order management solution. The implementation supports Shinhan’s strategic goal of enhancing its trading capabilities as Vietnam advances towards emerging market status. The rollout covers the firm’s market making and brokerage activities on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE).

Shinhan Securities Vietnam selected Horizon to support its Warrant market making and brokerage workflows. The solution provides market connectivity, integration with Shinhan’s core system, and an Order Management System (OMS) to streamline order flow. The firm also gains access to algorithmic trading strategies, including TWAP, VWAP, and POV, while the market making module provides accurate quoting, execution, and risk control for Warrant trading.

The initial phase focuses on click trading for cash equities and futures, with execution via brokers KISA and BNP Paribas. Shinhan plans to expand functionality in future phases to include basket pricing, futures pricing, and advanced automation modules.

Farrer Capital Management Selects TS Imagine for Integrated Trading and Risk Platform

TS Imagine, the trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions provider, has been selected by Farrer Capital Management. The Australian-headquartered hedge fund will use TS Imagine’s integrated platform to support its trading and risk operations.

The end-to-end solution provides Farrer Capital with a single environment for order, execution, portfolio, and risk management. This unified infrastructure is designed to streamline workflows, improve execution, and enhance risk monitoring.

The platform combines order and execution management with portfolio and risk analytics. The selection will allow Farrer Capital to scale its operations while maintaining rigorous risk controls, supporting the fund’s strategy to leverage technology for competitive advantage.

SmartStream Partners with ActiveViam to Provide Collateral Optimisation Solution

SmartStream, the data solutions provider, has formed a partnership with data analytics provider ActiveViam, which will integrate SmartStream’s Smart Collateral platform with ActiveViam’s Atoti Collateral Optimisation solution. This is designed to provide clients in treasury and capital markets with immediate ROI for collateral management optimisation.

The combined solution aims to help financial institutions allocate cheaper-to-deliver assets more efficiently, reducing reliance on expensive liquidity buffers. It provides a comprehensive, modular workflow, enabling more effective use of both cash and non-cash collateral inventories.

Integrating with SmartStream’s existing infrastructure, the platform delivers high automation and straight-through processing (STP) for collateral flows. Its modular architecture allows it to be tailored to client requirements and supports compliance with regulatory frameworks, including UMR, EMIR, and Basel III, while helping to optimise high-quality liquid assets.

Hamilton Lane’s Senior Credit Opportunities Fund Now Accessible via KAIO on Sei Network

KAIO, the onchain infrastructure for regulated real-world assets (RWAs), has expanded its tokenized fund offerings on the Sei Network, by bringing access to Hamilton Lane’s Senior Credit Opportunities Fund (SCOPE) onchain via the HL SCOPE Access Fund, targeting institutional and accredited investors.

This integration provides users on the Sei Network with expanded, crypto-native access to alternative investment strategies in private credit. KAIO utilises the Sei Network’s high-performance rails to offer secure and compliant access to alternative investment products directly onchain.

The HL SCOPE Access Fund provides a route into SCOPE, an all-weather senior private credit evergreen vehicle. The fund aims to generate consistent performance and cash yield, offering investors a diversified, multi-manager portfolio. Key features include immediate capital deployment and an option for monthly liquidity.

TS Imagine Partners with Gentek.ai to Integrate AI into Capital Markets Platform

TS Imagine, the trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions provider, has entered a strategic development partnership with AI platform Gentek.ai. The integration of Gentek.ai’s horizontal AI infrastructure directly into TS Imagine’s platform is designed to offer users faster workflows, automated processes, and richer insights through advanced reporting.

By embedding agentic workflows, TS Imagine aims to create new efficiencies for banks, asset managers, and wealth managers in areas such as Trading and Execution, using predictive intelligence for order routing; Risk Management, for real-time monitoring and stress testing; Financing & Prime Services, to streamline reporting; and Wealth Management, to provide personalised portfolio insights. The partnership promises to deliver modular, enterprise-grade solutions to reduce complexity and improve performance.

Quoreka Launches AI-Powered Commodity Sentiment Index

Quoreka, the energy and commodity trading risk management (E/CTRM) solutions provider, has announced the launch of the Quoreka Sentiment Index (QIndex), an AI-driven tool designed to measure real-time global sentiment for the commodity markets. The QIndex is powered by comprehensive news and data feeds supplied by Barchart, the market data and technology provider.

The index utilises artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs) to analyse and quantify sentiment within daily news coverage, generating a score between 0 (negative) and 1 (positive). The system works by scanning global news, filtering articles for relevant information, classifying them by industry, and then applying sentiment analysis to calculate the average daily index value.

This process aims to translate complex global news flow into a straightforward daily metric. The QIndex is intended for use by traders, analysts, and risk managers to help them track shifts in market sentiment at a glance.

SIX Signs Seven-Year Strategic Partnership with Barclays

Financial data provider SIX has signed a seven-year strategic partnership with Barclays. The agreement will provide all divisions of the global banking group, including its investment banking, retail, wealth management, and corporate services, with access to SIX’s comprehensive suite of financial data products. The partnership is intended to support Barclays’ international growth and drive cost efficiencies, aligning with the bank’s wider strategic transformation, with a goal to reduce costs by £2bn by 2026.

The collaboration builds on a longstanding relationship and will see Barclays contributing to the product strategy and development of new data and analytical products from SIX. In return for providing access to services such as real-time market data, wealth management capabilities, and regulatory reporting solutions, the partnership supports SIX’s own plans to expand, by helping strengthen the provider’s presence in key regions like the US and Asia, where Barclays has a significant footprint.

Openmarkets Group Adopts Eventus for Trade Surveillance

Eventus, the trade surveillance and financial risk solutions provider, has announced that Australian wealth management fintech Openmarkets Group (OMG) has adopted the Eventus Validus platform to provide comprehensive trade surveillance across all of its business.

The Validus platform will integrate into Openmarkets’ existing infrastructure to monitor all trading activity. The firm is responsible for clearing more than AUD $2 billion in annualised equities trades each month, spread across over 99,000 accounts.

Openmarkets selected Eventus after considering multiple providers, citing the platform’s advanced automation, cost-efficiency, and the availability of local support in Australia. The ability to customise the platform to generate targeted compliance alerts was also cited as a significant factor in the decision.

Blue Ocean Technologies Integrates Overnight Trading Data with NYSE Cloud Streaming

Capital markets fintech Blue Ocean Technologies has integrated its real-time overnight trading data into the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) Cloud Streaming service. Blue Ocean Technologies is the operator of Blue Ocean ATS, an alternative trading system that facilitates overnight price discovery and trade execution.

The NYSE will add Blue Ocean’s top of book and last sale real-time data as an additional channel, available alongside the existing NYSE Best Quote and Trades (BQT) consolidated market data feed. This collaboration is intended to provide more convenient access to trading and risk management opportunities for investors operating outside of traditional US market hours.

The service particularly targets the Asia Pacific region, where the Blue Ocean trading session overlaps significantly with local business hours. Through this integration, the company aims to add value to its products and services in Asia, which it identifies as a major growth area for market data demand.

ICE Announces Strategic Investment in Prediction Market Platform Polymarket

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) has announced a strategic investment of up to $2 billion in Polymarket, the prediction market and information platform. The investment is based on a pre-investment valuation of approximately $8 billion for Polymarket, which allows users to trade on the probability of events across markets, politics, sport and culture. The consideration will be paid in cash and is not expected to materially impact ICE’s financial results for 2025.

As part of the agreement, ICE will become a global distributor of Polymarket’s event-driven data, providing its customers with sentiment indicators on topics of market relevance. The two companies have also agreed to partner on future tokenisation initiatives.

Founded in 2020 by Shayne Coplan, Polymarket enables users to buy and sell shares of potential outcomes, with trades matched through smart contracts. ICE will provide further details on the investment during its third-quarter earnings call, which is scheduled for 30 October 2025.