ION, a global leader in trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics and insights, and strategic consulting to financial institutions, central banks, governments, and corporate organizations, will support connectivity to the new MIAX Futures™ matching engine, MIAX Futures Onyx (Onyx).

InvestiFi, the only InvestTech platform designed to allow investing to and from deposit accounts, has announced Todd Clark as its new President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Clark will be responsible for overseeing key aspects of InvestiFi’s business, including sales, marketing, implementations, client success, customer service and finance, leveraging his experience across the financial industry.

Hantec Markets is proud to announce the launch of InsightPro, an innovative trading intelligence tool for traders, developed in collaboration with Acuity Trading. The tool provides traders with real-time trends and AI-powered trading signals, enhancing their access to market insights.

Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global electronic broker, today announced the addition of four popular cryptocurrency tokens to its trading platform: Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), Ripple (XRP), and Dogecoin (DOGE). These new tokens join Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), providing investors access to some of the most actively traded digital assets. SOL, ADA, XRP and DOGE are available to clients with an account at Zero Hash LLC, and SOL is available to clients with an account at Paxos Trust Company.

BMLL Technologies (BMLL), the leading, independent provider of harmonised, Level 3, 2 and 1 historical data and analytics to the world’s financial markets, and Exegy, the only firm delivering comprehensive, front-office solutions for market data and trading across the latency spectrum, today announced that it has expanded its partnership for historical OPRA options data.

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and Google Cloud today announced a strategic collaboration to develop and deploy “ATLAS” (Automated Thai Listed Company AI-Info System), a generative AI-powered search solution with sophisticated information processing and retrieval capabilities. ATLAS is designed to boost the operational effectiveness of SET’s workforce and network of listed companies. Its implementation represents a key milestone in SET’s ongoing AI integration strategy and roadmap.

Leading Foreign Exchange brand Travelex has launched Travelex Plus – a new loyalty scheme that offers its customers a lifetime of exclusive deals, discounted exchange rates, currency rate sales and price freezes.

RealEstate.Exchange (REX), powered by DigiShares, today announced the launch of the first fully regulated trading platform for tokenized real estate on the Polygon Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain. This groundbreaking development addresses the longstanding challenge of liquidity in tokenized real estate markets by creating dedicated on-chain trading venues.

The number of European proprietary trading firms relocating outside the continent is set to accelerate in the wake of unsustainable regulatory burdens, the latest Acuiti Proprietary Trading Management Insight Report has found.

The latest edition of Broadridge’s Fund Brand 50 (FB50), an annual research study by global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) was released today, highlighting the world’s best-performing third-party asset management brands. The study reveals that European fund selectors placed higher importance on ‘Appealing investment strategy’ than their US and APAC counterparts, and turned away from active mutual funds to seek efficient returns in alternatives and active ETFs.

CMC Markets (CMC), a global provider of online trading technology for retail, professional and institutional clients, is pleased to announce the opening of its Bermuda office. Additionally, CMC is now licensed to conduct investment business and digital asset business by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (‘BMA’). The new location will enable CMC to expand its reach and efficiently onboard clients from regions that weren’t serviced by its other international hubs.

As global trade continues to expand, customs administrations all over the world face increasing challenges in collecting accurate revenue and minimising fraud. In Africa, these challenges are particularly acute. Studies show that giving customs inspectors better information can improve fraud detection by 21.7 percentage points and increase tax collection by 5.2 percentage points (https://apo-opa.co/4c54C1C).

Today, Global Dollar Network, an open network designed to accelerate and reward global stablecoin adoption, announced that Global Dollar (USDG) is now available for trading across more than ten digital asset exchanges. These strategic listings expand the accessibility and liquidity of USDG, offering users enhanced trading opportunities. Now, millions of users globally can get safe, trusted US dollars in the form of USDG via their preferred trading platforms. Since January 1, USDG has grown more than 300%*, making it one of the fastest growing stablecoins.

HTX, a leading crypto exchange, has been ranked as the “Top 3 Exchanges for EUR-Stablecoin Trading Activity” in a recent CoinDesk report titled “MiCAR: The Institutional Playbook for Europe’s Digital Asset Market”. The report explores key trends shaping the European digital asset market with the implementation of Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and highlights that HTX achieved a monthly average EUR-stablecoin trading volume of €48 million, with a notable volume of €33 million in November 2024, ranking third following Binance and Coinbase.

TransFICC, the specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, today announced that it has successfully implemented its One API service for National Australia Bank’s (NAB) Government Bonds and Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) on Tradeweb Australia (Yieldbroker).