Rising Stars will be recognised as part of a standalone event on 30 September, in collaboration with Instinet; nominations can be made for any candidate currently working in a trading role within a buy-side firm.
Individual brings more than 20 years of sell-side sales trading expertise to the new role, where he will be based out of Kepler Cheuvreux’s London office.
On average, 47,009 inbound records were processed daily in first week of tape operations; ETS Connect UK has confirmed it will open-source the full suite of data quality validation logic for the tape to boost transparency.
The trades are facilitated within State Street’s GlobalLINK FX Connect platform; solution allows asset managers to directly match trades with each other while still operating within their existing execution channels.
The move follows the launch of the DTCC’s industry-wide testing phase for 24/5 trading in January 2026, and aligns with wider efforts to expand to extended trading models across the US equities market.
The two firms will provide a global order hub to act as a one-stop gateway to more than 90 exchanges and eight asset classes across the world.
The past week has seen various moves across equities and FX.
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The structured wind-down of the service has been initiated and follows a “strategic review of Cboe’s risk and markets analytics business,” a Cboe spokesperson tells The TRADE.
The expanded role is set to support the growth and implementation of AI across UBS’ investment banking offering, The TRADE understands.
The move marks an expansion of the firm’s prediction markets focused offering, after Tradeweb and Kalshi entered a partnership to enhance institutional access to these markets in February 2026.
The integration is specifically targeted at corporate and emerging market bonds, and will enhance both firms shared clients access to Trumid trading protocols, while streamlining Aladdin users’ access to Swarms protocol.
The market link will cover Kenyan government bonds, infrastructure bonds and Treasury bills, and is set to support the growth of Kenya’s market on a global scale, and the influx of institutional investment.
The move expands Waypoint’s offering to cover all US equities exchanges, ATS’ and overnight venues, and comes ahead of the expected launch of the Texas Stock Exchange on 6 July.
The Cboe Predicts suite offers market participants a ‘yes-or-no’ payout, based on the Mini-S&P 500 Index (XSP); Cboe initially announced plans to launch in event prediction markets in its Q4 2025 earnings call.
Bulgaria was reclassified from a Frontier Market to a Standalone Market back in August 2016 due to the reported decline in the size and liquidity of the Bulgarian equity market.
The collaboration will provide an end-to-end solution for Al Rajhi Capital, including post-trade, data and trading, and is set to build out the securities finance footprint in Saudi Arabia.
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