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October 7, 2019

Fluid Dynamics—The Evolving Shape of European Market Liquidity

Nearly 2 years after the implementation of MiFID II, the equity market landscape is now taking shape. What was initially…

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Trading Technology
October 3, 2019

Connecting Markets—Welcome Aboard!

Regulatory scrutiny of buy-side broker selection and benchmarking, together with research unbundling rules, has meant that many asset managers are…

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Opinions
September 24, 2019

Nordic Trading—Market Insight a Competitive Advantage

Rapid Addition was in Stockholm last week for the FIX Trading Community’s Nordic Trading Briefing 2019 event. A strong turn…

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September 17, 2019

TradeTech FX Shines Light on Evolving Industry

The fact that last week’s annual forex event TradeTech FX was well-attended, may have had something to do with the…

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July 17, 2019

Mike Powell Joins Rapid Addition as CEO

Mike Powell joins Rapid Addition as Chief Executive Officer. Majority shareholder, Kevin Houstoun, remains in his role as Executive Chairman,…

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June 20, 2019

How RA FastLane Became the Flagship Hub Solution for FPGA Trading

A quick look behind the scenes at the FPGA accelerator technology that’s taken electronic trading to a whole new level…

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Events TradeTech 2019
April 25, 2019

Rapid Addition’s Kevin Houstoun Discusses Trading Infrastructure Cost Efficiency With TRADE TV

TRADE TV caught up with our Executive Chairman Kevin Houstoun at Trade Tech 2019 to discuss some of the challenges…

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April 10, 2019

Trading Platform Economics—The Similarities Between Car Production and Electronic Trading

What do the Audi Q7 & Q8, the Bentley Bentayga, the Lamborghini Urus, Porsche Cayenne, and Volkswagen Touareg have in…

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Trading Technology FIX Trading Community 2019
March 28, 2019

FIX Trading Community 2019 speaks to Rapid Addition’s Kevin Houstoun

Our Chairman, Kevin Houstoun, caught up with Fintech Finance TV at the FIX Trading Community Conference to discuss FGPA solutions,…

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Trading Technology
January 30, 2019

Mitigating Risk When Migrating Trading Platforms

The longer your infrastructural software is kept operational, the greater the risks. Problems embed themselves deep in the code, making…

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December 3, 2018

The Importance of a Common Platform for Building Differentiation | Kevin Houstoun for TRADE TV

Tell us about the focus around non-differentiating infrastructure? If you look at what a bank does, a bank has a…

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Opinions Rapid Addition - The focus on non-differentiating infrastructure
November 14, 2018

Why Do Banks Continue to Build Non-differentiating Components?

What could Investment Banks learn from Apple’s approach to the supply chain? How can they use the same approach to…

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