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Rapid Addition 23rd February 2023

Rapid Addition was in South Africa last week when CEO Mike Powell and Chairman Kevin Houstoun caught up with RA’s Johannesburg-based head of MEA, Melvyn Plumridge, to visit customers and attend the JSE’s SA Trade Connect Event in Cape Town. As well as being a great opportunity to catch up with clients, colleagues, and industry […]

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

Rapid Addition 31st January 2023

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, […]

Trading Platform Oversight & Choosing the Right Monitoring Solution

Rapid Addition 13th October 2022

Running a sell-side trading desk is a challenging business. Activity is highly regulated, customers are demanding, and competitors more than happy to take your place. Sales traders and execution teams are under intense pressure to update clients on the status of large open orders, explain why a trade may have been rejected or remains unexecuted, […]

Beyond Crypto – realising the potential for digital assets with institutional investors

Mike Powell 26th May 2021

Crypto currencies have been making headlines again over the last couple of weeks thanks to Chinese regulators banning financial institutions and payment companies from providing cryptocurrency transaction services, while also warning investors against speculative crypto trading. Sentiment was further undermined by Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, reversing a previous decision that his company would accept Bitcoin […]

Post-Pandemic Optimism – a new era of technology enabled innovation for capital markets

Mike Powell 31st March 2021

I was lucky enough to join Nomura’s Japanese equity desk in London as my first job out of university. It was the late 80s, the Nikkei 225 was soon to hit an all-time high of nearly 39,000, and the big 4 Japanese brokerages of Nomura, Yamaichi, Daiwa and Nikko had become international financial powerhouses. However, […]

The State of Capital Markets Tech – 5 key Takeaways

Mike Powell 26th November 2020

Discussing the state of capital markets tech In the unusual world we find ourselves, catching up with industry peers via Zoom or Teams seems to be the only way to compare notes these days. It was great then that Toby Babb pulled a group of us together on Fintech Focus TV for an in-depth […]

The Long Journey to Frictionless Electronic Trading – A brief history of FIX Protocol

Rapid Addition 21st October 2020

Thinking about how integral FIX protocol has become to electronic trading, it’s interesting to reflect on the long journey that has brought us to where we are today. FIX started out as an experiment between Salomon Brothers and Fidelity in the fledgling days of electronic trading with the aim of automating the sending of execution reports and […]

Confidence to Move Faster – Control and Manage Complex Trading Infrastructure

Mike Powell 16th September 2020

Running trading infrastructure in large sell-side firms is a tough gig. Not only are you responsible for perhaps the most business-critical part of your organisation, but even the smallest outage or change management error is highly visible to your clients. Dropping the ball can have significant economic consequences, not least thanks to an increasingly […]

The Seventh Wave…What next in electronic trading innovation?

Mike Powell 2nd September 2020

According to surfing folklore, the seventh wave is the largest of the set. This is perhaps a fitting metaphor for what’s about to happen in electronic trading. Recapping on the last three decades, we’ve certainly come a long way, and whether or not you agree with my preceding six waves, they are certainly significant milestones. […]

Competing for Order Flow – The Differentiation Dilemma

Rapid Addition 25th June 2020

What does competing order flow mean to you? The economics of providing sell-side execution services have become increasingly challenging since the financial crisis of 2008. High costs and commission compression are driving an unhealthy level of industry consolidation. And while the increasing prevalence of white label business models and improved off-the-shelf technology have helped address […]

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Under Pressure: What does DORA mean for FinTech firms?

ipushpull and Rapid Addition Transform Trading Activity Monitoring

Building Competitive Advantage: The Evolution of Buy and Build in Financial Technology

Rapid Addition and Chainlink To Build FIX-Native Blockchain Adapter for Institutional Digital Asset Trading

Demystifying AI in Electronic Trading: Insights from the EMEA FIX Trading Conference

Rapid Addition Named Best FIX Engine Provider at the TradingTech Summit 2024

The importance of sell-side relationships to investing in regional markets

Remote Working in a Post-Pandemic World

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