Finalto has announced the opening of its new MENA office in Dubai in February 2026. This strategic expansion follows the Finalto Group’s acquisition of a Category 5 CMA license, underscoring the company’s long-term commitment to serving clients across the region. The move reflects the rapidly growing demand for professional and institutional trading services throughout the…
The dollar is trading mixed against the major currencies as investors await important macroeconomic releases and foreign policy signals. Market participants remain cautious ahead of upcoming US data, as well as potential statements following contacts between Washington and Beijing. The trade negotiations factor and the prospect of a meeting between Donald Trump and the Chinese…
LSEG has announced plans to build an on-chain settlement capability, the LSEG Digital Securities Depository (DSD). The LSEG DSD, a market infrastructure solution for institutional market participants, will be fully interoperable, connecting traditional and digital markets, supporting multiple chains, and seamless interaction between existing settlement platforms and emerging digital infrastructures. The first deliverable is planned…
Scope Prime the award-winning institutional liquidity brand of Rostro Financial Group has announced that it has integrated MetaQuotes’ new Ultency matching engine into its product offering. Ultency was launched to provide a high performance, ultra-low latency solution for liquidity aggregation and order matching, specifically for brokers running the popular MT5 platform. Hesham Hasanin, Group Head…
Finteum, the intraday liquidity management platform for global financial institutions, has announced that it has reached USD 1 billion in weekly intraday FX swap trades. This milestone, driven by increased volumes from participant banks, underscores Finteum’s role in optimising intraday liquidity for global institutions and creating efficiency for the established USD 10 trillion per day…
Investor access to frontier markets is growing exponentially, thanks largely to the adoption of technology and the transparency in price discovery this has enabled. The same thing happened in developed markets years earlier. As Matthew Kassel, Chief Revenue Officer at Edgewater Markets, says: “When investors have access to markets through modern, scalable, custom-built technology, they…
LMAX Group has unveiled Omnia Exchange a next generation infrastructure layer enabling users to seamlessly convert any asset in realtime via a single API, anywhere, anytime. Built on LMAX Group’s renowned technology and deep liquidity, Omnia unifies FX, crypto, stablecoins and other digital assets in one platform, opening up access for businesses to unified wholesale…
The traditional FX prime brokerage operating model is struggling to keep pace with increasingly fragmented markets. Firms are dealing with more liquidity sources, more trading venues and higher operational overhead and many now recognise that the cost of stitching these components together internally is no longer scalable. Tier 1 banks continue to retreat from midmarket…
SGX FX has announced that it will combine its deep global liquidity and buy-side client base with CME Group’s EBS Market and recently launched FX Spot+ platform to meet growing demand for more connected, efficient and interoperable execution. Through a single, integrated workflow delivered via the BidFX and MaxxTrader platforms, clients on both venues will…
Deutsche Bank and BlackRock have announced a partnership whereby Deutsche Bank’s multi-award-winning HausFX (FX-as-a-Service) technology suite will be integrated with BlackRock’s Aladdin platform. This collaboration represents a significant advancement in delivering automated, transparent, and cost-efficient foreign exchange solutions to the global asset management industry – and underscores both firms’ commitment to delivering innovative solutions that…