Category: Technology

What is API Integration in Finance

What is API Integration in Finance and Why Do You Need it

The capital markets value chain is complex, consisting of multiple pre-trade, trade, and post-trade processes. As trading has become increasingly electronic, a diverse web of applications and systems must work seamlessly to support this end-to-end workflow. Automating interoperability is key, and Application Programming Interface (API) Integration will drive greater efficiencies and better client experience. API […]

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Which Trading Functions are Best Suited to Cloud

Which Trading Functions are Best Suited to Cloud

In previous blogs, we’ve explored the factors driving capital markets’ embrace of cloud technology (link), the benefits firms are already enjoying from making the move (link), and some of the obstacles that can derail a cloud migration strategy (link). What’s clear is that for capital markets, cloud isn’t a panacea but rather an increasingly important […]

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Differentiation and Scale – is cloud ready to transform trading infrastructure?”

Differentiation and Scale – is cloud ready to transform trading infrastructure?”

Modern capital markets’ structure has been shaped by the adoption of new technologies. Major regulatory shake-ups, such as MiFID and RegNMS, drove huge investments in technology, pushing executions from screens and phones onto electronic trading platforms to take advantage of the fragmenting liquidity landscape. This sparked the rise of algo and HFT trading, which in […]

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Platform for Growth – an Emerging Approach to Making Better Trading Technology Decisions

Platform for Growth – an Emerging Approach to Making Better Trading Technology Decisions

In this article, orginally published in Best Execution, our CEO, Mike Powell, looks at an emerging approach to making better trading technology decisions. Capital markets institutions face a heady mix of geopolitical, economic, and structural challenges as they consider their strategic growth plans. With Europe slipping into recession, the Ukraine conflict driving up energy prices, […]

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The future of trading technology

The future of trading technology

Kevin Houstoun shares his thoughts on impactful trends in trading technology during an interview at the recent TradeTech Conference in Paris. In addition to his role as Rapid Addition’s Chairman, Kevin is a Non-Executive Director at FIX Protocol Ltd., a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics Systemic Risk Centre, and holds a number […]

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