RA Blog

November 20, 2019

Optimising Sell-Side Client Onboarding: Reducing Costs & Time-to-Trade

The Growing Challenges of Sell-Side Client Onboarding Regulatory scrutiny of buy-side broker selection and best-execution benchmarking, together with research unbundling…

Events

Buy vs Build Trading Technology panel at the JSE SA Trade Connect 2019

November 1, 2019

Buy vs Build Trading Technology — Insights from SA Trade Connect

Introduction: The Ongoing Debate in Trading Technology Last week our CEO, Mike Powell, took part in a panel exploring the…

Opinions

October 17, 2019

Living with Giants—Tough Times for the Institutional Sell-side Market

The institutional sell-side market has had a tough time over recent years. Concerns over economic outlook, shrinking commissions and rising…

Opinions

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…

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…

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…

Events

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…

Press Release

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,…

Trading Technology

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…

Events

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…

Trading Technology

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…

Trading Technology

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,…