Lloyds Joins Integral’s Network as an FX Liquidity Provider

Integral, the currency technology provider, has added Lloyds to its ecosystem as a liquidity provider. The partnership is designed to expand Integral’s institutional foreign exchange (FX) network.

The integration enables Integral’s global clients to access Lloyds’ FX pricing for key currency products through a single technology system. By adding the bank to its platform, Integral aims to provide its users with greater pricing depth, increased workflow efficiency, and improved execution quality across major currency pairs, supporting price formation for various trading strategies.

FIX Trading Community Releases Standardised Outage Communication Practices

The FIX Trading Community has introduced a standard methodology, the Outage Communication Recommended Practices, to automate the electronic communication of market outages. Previously, outage notifications were inconsistent and largely manual, which often worsened the impact of technical disruptions. This new framework allows exchanges and market participants to issue timely, consistent updates and resolutions.

The initiative responds directly to regulatory guidance from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), alongside industry bodies such as AFME, EFAMA, and FIA EPTA, who have all called for harmonised outage protocols. The practices build upon existing frameworks for European consolidated tapes while offering greater granularity.

Designed to be asset-class agnostic, the framework covers trading, market data, and other technical disruptions across all scopes, from individual instruments to entire markets. It applies broadly to venues, brokers, asset managers, and data providers, ensuring a unified approach to managing system failures.

BLOX Markets Partners with Imandra to Deploy AI Infrastructure for Openpool

BLOX Markets has formed a strategic partnership with neurosymbolic AI firm Imandra to integrate its technology into Openpool, an upcoming retail-focused US equities trading venue. The platform will use Imandra Connectivity and CodeLogician as foundational components for its software assurance, certification, and connectivity infrastructure.

The deployment replaces traditional static documentation and manual testing with Imandra’s machine-readable models. Using the Imandra Protocol Language, Openpool will provide connecting firms with a living specification that continuously reflects production behaviour. This allows users to validate their implementations through automated simulators, increasing transparency and efficiency during the onboarding process.

Furthermore, BLOX Markets will utilise CodeLogician, an automated reasoning engine, to formally verify software behaviour. By creating mathematical models of the system, this technology identifies edge cases and proves critical properties prior to deployment, ensuring correctness and resilience across the market infrastructure.

Novig Deploys Eventus Validus Platform for Trade Surveillance Ahead of Nationwide Expansion

Novig, the American sports prediction market, has deployed the Eventus Validus platform to provide trade surveillance for its exchange. This partnership follows Novig’s recent approval by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Designated Contract Market (DCM). This regulatory designation allows the company to operate as a federally regulated prediction market and launch a nationwide expansion this summer.

Novig selected the Validus platform for its ability to customise surveillance scenarios, such as wash trading and spoofing, to suit its specific market mechanics. The system offers cross-account and cross-market analysis to detect coordinated manipulation, alongside real-time and post-trade monitoring for clean forensic auditability.

Additionally, the platform provides straightforward integration with Novig’s internal systems and includes built-in case management workflows to streamline investigations. Eventus was chosen to support Novig’s long-term growth, offering the necessary scalability to handle increasing trade volumes and an expanding regulatory surface area.

SoftSolutions Integrates AI Capabilities Into nexRates Fixed-Income Trading Platform

SoftSolutions has integrated production-ready artificial intelligence into its nexRates fixed-income trading platform. The new tool allows traders to use plain language to automatically generate context-dependent Request for Quote (RFQ) layouts, workflow rules, and custom interfaces, eliminating the need for developer or vendor intervention.

The AI operates strictly within a predefined catalogue of platform fields and actions. Every configuration is schema-validated, previewed, and requires final confirmation from the trader. Crucially, the AI functions solely for decision support and desk configuration; it does not price, quote, or execute trades. All risk limits, compliance gates, and supervisor approvals apply throughout, preserving MiFID II and RTS 6 alignment.

Furthermore, the system analyses counterparty behaviour to propose concrete strategy adjustments based on client history and tiering. By bringing historical patterns into a single view, the AI facilitates faster calls while ensuring the trader retains complete command over every decision.

Trading Technologies Upgrades TT Trade Surveillance Platform with Market Replay Tool

Trading Technologies International (TT) has upgraded its TT Trade Surveillance platform, introducing a Market Replay tool and an enhanced enterprise case management user interface. The update improves the workflow, speed and scope of compliance investigations across equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, futures and options. Live demonstrations of the system will begin tomorrow at the XLoD Global – London 2026 conference.

The Market Replay module functions as a forensic auditing tool, providing a tick-by-tick visual playback of the order book over a 90-day lookback window. Meanwhile, the upgraded cloud-based case management system enables global compliance teams to collaborate on historical data and manage investigations within a single workspace.

The hosted platform minimises false-positive alerts using user-configurable and core models. This includes a machine learning-powered spoofing model trained on regulatory data, which scores alert risks from 1 to 100 to help staff prioritise tasks. The system ingests and normalises multi-asset trading data from both TT and external platforms.

Plus500 Launches Sports Event-Based Prediction Contracts in the US

Plus500, the global multi-asset fintech group, has expanded its product suite in the US by launching CFTC-regulated sports event-based financial contracts. Enabled by the group’s proprietary technology, these contracts allow retail customers to trade on sporting outcomes using prediction markets. The offering combines Plus500’s institutional-grade execution, clearing, and risk management infrastructure with an intuitive user experience.

The launch utilises contracts from Kalshi, the authorised prediction market platform, integrated directly into Plus500’s proprietary futures trading platform. This addition significantly broadens Plus500’s next-generation prediction markets portfolio. By entering sports-based contracts -the highest-engagement category in prediction markets – the group aims to substantially expand its total addressable market within the US retail trading sector.

Waypoint Trading Solutions Enables Day-One Connectivity to Texas Stock Exchange

Waypoint Trading Solutions, a TNS business, has announced it will provide immediate connectivity to the Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) from its launch day. This addition allows Waypoint clients to access the new platform alongside other exchanges and alternative trading systems, including all 22 US equities venues and overnight markets. Headquartered in Dallas, TXSE is a fully electronic national securities exchange backed by major global financial institutions, aimed at expanding access to US equity capital markets.

The integration leverages Waypoint’s established infrastructure, which is designed to streamline and secure global trading environments. The company’s capabilities are delivered through three core service areas: Radianz, which operates the world’s largest financial extranet for global connectivity; Xpress, a managed low-latency platform for high-performance market access; and Sentinel, a fully managed service supporting large-scale, complex market data operations.

Avelacom Completes Network Optimisations for Low-Latency Trading from Shanghai

Avelacom has completed a series of network optimisations from the Shanghai Tonglian Data Centre, to improve connectivity between Shanghai and major global financial hubs, including Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, and Chicago.

The newly optimised routes deliver round-trip delays of under 16.5 milliseconds to Hong Kong, less than 50 milliseconds to Singapore, and under 24 milliseconds to Tokyo, which also supports onward connectivity to CME Group markets. These improvements facilitate latency-sensitive trading strategies, including onshore and offshore China trading, FTSE China A50 trading, and cross-market commodities trading between global derivatives markets.

As Shanghai maintains a key role in Asian trading infrastructure, these network upgrades address the growing demand from trading firms requiring deterministic, low-latency connectivity to deploy cross-market and cross-region strategies.

GTN and Koscom Partner to Build Global Order Hub for Korean Securities Firms

Global fintech provider GTN has signed an agreement with Koscom, the IT infrastructure provider for Korea’s capital markets, to develop a ‘Global Order Hub’. Signed on 16 June in Seoul, the partnership creates a next-generation order-routing infrastructure, offering Korean securities firms a single gateway to international markets. Under the deal, GTN will act as a single counterparty providing market access, while Koscom will deliver the underlying infrastructure.

Koscom, which is majority-owned by the Korea Exchange, the Korea Securities Depository, and local securities firms, selected GTN due to its multi-asset coverage and institutional network. Alongside this agreement, Koscom and GTN have signed a memorandum of understanding with Korean fintech QV Labs Inc. This separate collaboration aims to introduce value-added services, including global investment data for local investors and transaction cost analysis for overseas orders.

The agreement further expands GTN’s footprint in the Asia-Pacific region. It follows the firm securing a Type 1 licence from Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission in March 2026, establishing a regional dual-hub alongside its existing operations in Singapore.