Participants have until 4 September to submit their vote for this year’s London and New York-based awards ceremonies.
The ‘recommended practices’ have been developed to be asset class agnostic, and are relevant not only to trading venues, but also for brokers, data vendors and other service providers.
The transaction took place on the Canton Network between Franklin Templeton and Virtu Financial, and comes amid growing institutional momentum behind tokenised real-world assets.
The deal was initially announced in January 2026 and is set to enhance TP ICAP’s positioning in equity derivatives and fixed income markets.
New appointment had been with UBS for 16 years, including 12 as head of electronic credit sales for EMEA.
The transaction focuses specifically on River Global’s asset management business, and boosts Liontrust’s total assets under management.
Individual brings more than 20 years of sell-side sales trading expertise to the new role, where he will be based out of Kepler Cheuvreux’s London office.
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The trades are facilitated within State Street’s GlobalLINK FX Connect platform; solution allows asset managers to directly match trades with each other while still operating within their existing execution channels.
The move follows the launch of the DTCC’s industry-wide testing phase for 24/5 trading in January 2026, and aligns with wider efforts to expand to extended trading models across the US equities market.
The two firms will provide a global order hub to act as a one-stop gateway to more than 90 exchanges and eight asset classes across the world.
The past week has seen various moves across equities and FX.
The structured wind-down of the service has been initiated and follows a “strategic review of Cboe’s risk and markets analytics business,” a Cboe spokesperson tells The TRADE.
The expanded role is set to support the growth and implementation of AI across UBS’ investment banking offering, The TRADE understands.
The move marks an expansion of the firm’s prediction markets focused offering, after Tradeweb and Kalshi entered a partnership to enhance institutional access to these markets in February 2026.
The integration is specifically targeted at corporate and emerging market bonds, and will enhance both firms shared clients access to Trumid trading protocols, while streamlining Aladdin users’ access to Swarms protocol.
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