UK registrar Equiniti says its new Real Time Analytics feature gives issuer clients 15-minute updates on institutional buying, selling and lending movements, replacing reliance on monthly or quarterly register snapshots.
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ICE Futures Europe has changed the position limit on its UK NBP Natural Gas Futures contract as the UK’s new commodity derivatives regime nears its 6 July start.
The USDGO enterprise stablecoin crossed $500m four months after its February launch; its reserves now include funds from JPMorgan, BlackRock, and Goldman Sachs.
Nasdaq-listed Nocera takes a position in CampaignPulse.ai, an early-stage AI firm building simulation-driven campaign intelligence tools, adding to its deals.
Titanbay just added the former UBS AG Group CEO and current Swiss Bankers Association Chairman Marcel Rohner as a Non-Executive Director in the fintech’s board.
Singapore-based Abaxx Exchange expands institutional access to its futures pricing by integrating market data into LSEG’s global distribution ecosystem.
Blockchain infrastructure firm DCodex has launched DPay, a USDT debit card on the Visa network, while reporting 3,000 subscribers and $20m in capital deployed.
Beeks Financial Cloud has signed three June contracts for its Market Edge Intelligence® platform worth about $10m, with a Tier 1 bank, a financial firm, and…
iSAM Securities has appointed Neill Burger as Managing Director. Neill joined the iSAM group in 2008 and has fueled its growth and development over 17 years.
US clearing firm Wedbush hit the 1 billion cumulative milestone roughly six months after it began supporting CME’s prediction market products in mid-December.
Nasdaq-listed Chaince Digital has listed a curated USDC lending vault on Morpho, with AlphaPing as curator and Chaince Research advising on collateral and risk.
OTC Markets Group named Thomas Fasano as SVP, Head of Broker-Dealer Sales on Monday. Fasano joins from Citi, where he held senior roles in multiple departments.
Australian institutional digital asset prime broker LTP has secured an AFSL from ASIC, enabling it to advise and deal in financial products for wholesale clients.
Centroid Solutions has partnered with TRAction to allow trading data flows seamlessly from Centroid’s infrastructure directly into TRAction’s reporting systems.
Cboe BZX pulled Defiance’s leveraged space ETF from trading less than two hours into SpaceX’s first session on Nasdaq. The exchange expected to resume trading no earlier than today.
ETF issuer Defiance ETFs said its SPCL fund would seek 2X daily leveraged exposure to SpaceX from the open of its Nasdaq IPO, with exposure set at the IPO price.
Genesis Global won Best Solution for Fixed Income Trading for its Primary Bond Issuance platform, which it plans to extend into municipal bonds, syndicated loans.
Five companies join the Nasdaq-100 and five exit ahead of the June 22 open, triggering positioning across more than $800 billion in index-linked products.
The CME Group will offer round-the-clock access for a new 10-Barrel WTI Crude Oil contract and its existing 1-Ounce Gold futures, including weekends and holidays.
Bitget is bundling professional-grade Level 2 US stock market data into its VIP program, days after launching its tokenized equities product Stocks 2.0.
Tokenized equity firm Dinari has deployed SpaceX dShares on Hyperliquid, marking the first tokenized U.S. equity available for spot trading on HyperCore.
CoinShares, the Jersey digital asset manager, was included in Fortune’s first crypto industry list, two months after migrating its listing to the U.S. Nasdaq.
CME will launch new E-mini futures contracts that will track the Morningstar US Total Market, Russell 3000, S&P Composite 1500, and S&P Total Market indices.
CME just launched new options contracts that will be one-tenth the size of existing E-mini options, with Monday-to-Friday expiries and financial settlement.
The registered U.S. equities exchange appointed the Baruch College professor, known as the “father of electronic call auctions,” as it develops its AuctionEQ intraday auction product for a planned H2 2026 launch.
zerohash said it now supports HYPE, USDC.HYPE and USDT.HYPE. The addition lets banks, brokerages and fintechs offer Hyperliquid assets via a single integration.
CME Group has signed a multi-year deal covering futures and options on six Morningstar Market Indexes, marking the first time derivatives will be offered.
SurancePlus and HCI Group have agreed to issue three tokenized reinsurance securities tied to Fortex Re’s 2026-2027 catastrophe program, targeting $12 million.
Deutsche Börse Group’s post-trade arm, Clearstream, launched a hybrid digital securities system, enabling clients to manage traditional and digital securities.
Capital markets software vendor Genesis Global elevated executives across sales, technology, delivery, engineering, and India as it helps banks deploy AI systems.
Nasdaq Verafin is expanding its agentic AI lineup with role-based analysts for AML and ACH fraud, plus a platform-agnostic deployment option for institutions.
IUX says it surpassed $1.5 trillion in monthly trading volume in 2026, with commodities accounting for 76% of trades, and is building low-latency infrastructure.
Nasdaq-listed Marex completed a $500m perpetual subordinated notes offering in London, cutting its funding cost from 13.25% to 7.7%, and will retire $100m debt.
Alternative asset manager Apollo is leading the largest private financing, backing Broadcom’s new AI compute platform with Anthropic as the first demand anchor.
ICE Compass combines exchange data with client trading history and counterparty inputs to rank dealers and estimate pricing before execution across bond markets.
Leverate just released a conversational AI agent that gives brokers greater visibility into what their clients are searching for asking about, and engaging with.
NASDAQ-listed Marex adds Sigma Lending CEO and former Nomura executive to its board with immediate effect, placing him on the Risk Committee.
CME Group’s new Bitcoin volatility contracts attracted immediate institutional trades, extending its 24/7 crypto framework into pure volatility risk transfer.
DAK Markets has adopted Spotware’s platform as a package, bundling trading infrastructure with AI-agent connectivity and a free client acquisition channel.
Kraken said that payments blockchain Tempo selected it as its first US centralized exchange partner, giving clients access to Kraken’s full institutional stack.
The connection between the two will allow ATFX Connect to offer B2B clients access to listed CFD products.
Kraken has launched a fixed-rate lending product targeting sophisticated clients across 40 US states, with a $75,000 minimum loan size and terms up to two years.
Match-Prime rolled out five weekend-traded CFD instruments for institutional brokers, covering gold, silver, oil, and US equity indices with uniform leverage.
Clear Street, a cloud-native capital markets platform, hires a 30-year broker-dealer regulatory veteran as it scales its clearing and prime brokerage services.
Exchange operator ICE reported growth across rates, commodities, and equities in May, with open interest outpacing volume and setting new highs in some products.
We talk to Ivan Wong at ATFX APAC HQ about what the prime-of-prime has done to enter the region and how it plans on growing.
Hong Kong’s exchange signed cooperation agreements with the Astana International Financial Centre and Exchange, extending its connectivity into Central Asia.
ICE Futures Europe is removing certain long-dated Standard UK single stock option strikes with no open interest from its contract list, in a listing cleanup.
CME Group launched 24/7 crypto futures and options on Friday. The exchange saw more than 7,200 contracts worth $50 million traded over its first weekend.
Nasdaq-listed Marex has completed its purchase of Monaco-based commodities liquidity provider Levmet, adding physical and derivatives trading across metals, energy and European power markets.
Kraken parent Payward and Franklin Templeton used the Bermuda Digital Finance Forum to demo their collaboration with a tokenized gold ETF share dropped into eligible attendees’ accounts.
IPC Systems, a financial connectivity provider, will carry 24X National Exchange market data, targeting firms in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney.
Payments giant Fiserv will deploy Cognition’s autonomous AI software engineer across core platform modernization to shorten release cycles for its clients.
ICE Futures Europe issued Circular 26/080 on Thursday, though the specific revisions to incentives or eligibility are not visible in the supplied notice.
CMC Markets’ institutional arm has rolled out cash and synthetic prime brokerage services from London, with onboarding available across the UK and Middle East.
ICE ETF Hub today announced that it has been approved to enter the Netherlands and other European countries, as well as Australia. It’s now in 33 countries.
Japanese insurer Nippon Life Insurance went live on Tokyo Stock Exchange’s CONNEQTOR RFQ platform in April. The platform had record trading volumes earlier.
ICE Futures Singapore just announced changes to its settlement duration and volume threshold. The changes affect desk operations at most investment firms.
The new physically deliverable silver contract targets industrial users, with 1,000 troy ounce lots delivered into Singapore vaults alongside Abaxx’s existing gold kilobar futures.
US derivatives exchange plans Nasdaq CME Crypto Index futures in standard and micro sizes, covering a seven-asset basket including bitcoin, ether and SOL.
Former Deutsche Telekom technology chief Claudia Nemat joins the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse AG, succeeding Shannon Johnston after a shareholder vote at the 2026 AGM.
Leverage Shares has added index and VIX-based leveraged products for traders.
Digital asset brokerage platform Virtex has picked Gold-i’s MatrixNET as its first external integration, giving clients a single connection to 35+ crypto exchanges and 80+ FX liquidity providers.
LMAX will let clients put down crypto margin, which can be used to trade spot FX, CFDs, crypto, and perpetuals.
The Nasdaq-listed Toncoin treasury company disclosed 221.9 million $TON on its balance sheet, posted an $87.9 million unrealized crypto loss, and pointed to a fourfold staking yield increase following April’s Catchain 2.0 upgrade.
L7 has transitioned into a global multi-vertical fintech group.
Exchange operator Cboe Global Markets has filled its senior Washington policy role, hiring former OCC executive Julie Bauer after Chief Policy Officer Angelo Evangelou retired in April.
The Hong Kong exchange named six directors and two senior management members in a disciplinary notice published on Friday, raising the compliance stakes beyond the issuer level.
The institutional arm of the brokerage group has seen huge growth over the last few years.
Knapp was Managing Director for Scope Prime’s options and futures business prior to joining MAS Markets.
White joins the company from Scope Prime, where he spent the last 18 months as Chief Commercial Officer.
Intercontinental Exchange posted its strongest quarterly performance to date, with net revenues up 20% to $3.0 billion and exchange segment growth driven by surging energy and financial futures activity.
The NYSE-listed market maker reported diluted EPS of $1.99, beating the $1.51 consensus estimate by a wide margin, with the bulk of the uplift coming from its principal trading business.
Hong Kong’s exchange operator said the quarter saw broad-based strength across equities, Stock Connect, the LME and clearing, with 20 trading days where turnover topped HK$300 billion.
Abaxx Technologies said two institutional counterparties completed the first physical gold spot trades on its Singapore-based venue, adding a live-use milestone to its co-located spot and futures gold market.
The Frankfurt exchange group invested $9.2 million for a minority stake in the Copenhagen-based wealth management platform, backing its move into the enterprise segment.
Japan Exchange Group posted record FY2025 operating revenue of JPY 198.7 billion, with net income up 29.5%, as average daily cash equities trading value surged to JPY 7.52 trillion.
Saunders has previously held sales roles in the crypto space and at CFD liquidity providers.
The Dutch market maker has installed a three-person senior leadership team across Asia-Pacific as it pushes into China markets and looks to grow regional trading activity.
Japan Exchange Group’s data unit is deepening its cloud-native disclosure offering, extending document-link access from one year to five for institutional users of Japanese listed-company filings.
Hong Kong’s exchange operator has opened a consultation on shortening settlement from T+2 to T+1, a move that would compress post-trade workflows for brokers, custodians and asset managers across time zones.
London-headquartered brokerage and clearing group Marex Group plc has locked in $500 million of five-year unsecured funding at a 5.680% fixed coupon, with proceeds earmarked for working capital and growth.
OGBC Group founder Jayden Wei’s early-stage backing of the crypto infrastructure fund has produced its first liquidity event, less than six months after C1 Fund’s own NYSE debut.
Digital prime broker GCEX has integrated Cumberland’s spot crypto liquidity into its execution infrastructure, giving institutional clients access through its MiCA-regulated platform.
The Frankfurt-based exchange group is co-investing with private markets asset manager 7RIDGE to strengthen its custom indexing capabilities through MerQube’s cloud-native platform.
The Swiss issuer cross-listed staking-linked and newer-token products on Deutsche Börse’s exchange, extending a lineup that generated over $4.6 billion in turnover during 2025.
Bitwise’s seventh European staking ETP targets the HYPE token with a 0.85% TER and 1% target net staking reward, landing six weeks after CoinShares listed a rival product with a 0% management fee.
ATFX Connect’s Q2 report looks at growing volatility in commodities, precious metals, and currencies.
Companies using Gold-i’s bridging product will be able to tap into Scope Prime’s leading crypto CFD liquidity.
ETF issuer Defiance ETFs listed XAIL on Cboe Exchange on Wednesday, giving active traders 200% daily exposure to a concentrated basket of companies directly involved in the commercial space economy.
International trading volumes at the world’s largest derivatives exchange rose 30% year-on-year, with every major asset class and every region outside the US setting all-time quarterly records.
The derivatives exchange plans to list AVAX and SUI futures on May 4, adding to an altcoin lineup that already includes Cardano, Chainlink and Stellar contracts.
Cboe Global Markets reported a string of monthly and quarterly records in March 2026, led by a 28.6% year-over-year jump in index options and an all-time high in FX spot trading.
The UK FCA-authorised digital securities venue adds a high-profile regulated banking infrastructure figure as it builds out its tokenised assets marketplace and participates in the Bank of England and FCA Digital Securities Sandbox.
Combined cash-market turnover across Xetra and Frankfurt rose roughly 24% from February but was only marginally above the year-earlier figure, suggesting a seasonal pickup rather than a shift in trajectory.
The exchange operator’s latest direct cash investment, plus anticipated secondary purchases, completes its obligations under the investment arrangement announced in October 2025.
The new product allows the company’s B2B clients to access gold trading outside of normal market hours.
The liquidity provider has also already surpassed that figure in its current financial year.
The partnership lets eligible institutional clients trade listed event contracts through BitGo’s OTC desk using crypto collateral already held on its platform, with Susquehanna providing liquidity.
Securitize will serve as the first digital transfer agent eligible to mint blockchain-native securities on NYSE’s upcoming Digital Trading Platform, as the exchange race to tokenize equities accelerates.
