The TRADE caught up with Stu Taylor, head of global markets AI (ex Japan) at MUFG, to unpack the rapidly changing AI landscape across capital markets, from how traders are adopting AI tools to the biggest AI-related misconceptions still dominating the industry.

As low-touch execution becomes the norm, banks are under increasing pressure to deliver sophisticated, globally consistent algorithmic trading. The TRADE sits down with BestEx Research to unpack how a new infrastructure model could help close the gap between tier-one and regional providers. 

The importance of ensuring ultimate accountability lie with firms using AI rather than the vendors was front of mind during discussions at the recent Quorum 15 conference.

As automation and algo usage ramp up across buy-side workflows, Natasha Cocksedge delves into the findings from The TRADE’s recently published 2026 Algorithmic Trading Survey: Long-only, exploring how the buy-side is increasingly demanding more from their algos as these tools become further embedded into workflows.

Addressing fragmentation and liquidity in European corporate bond markets through regulatory and technological improvements will be key to ensuring future efficiency, assert panellists at the ICMA conference in London.

Central bank-backed innovation challenge highlights growing progress in tokenised settlement infrastructure, but warns trade-offs around scalability, governance and interoperability remain unresolved.

The TRADE catches up with Eric Brown, FX trader, T. Rowe Price, delving into the increasingly data-driven world of FX trading and unpacking how buy-side firms are reassessing how they evaluate algo performance.

Algorithmic trading is also becoming a key execution method for buy-siders trading in FX markets, with some participants directing up to 90% of flow through algos, according to a recent Coalition Greenwich report.

The TRADE sits down with Merlin Rajah, head of electronic sales, Absa Group, to discuss how rising demands around transparency, data and TCA are reshaping execution quality, the evolving balance between latency, resilience and fairness in electronic trading, and the key market structure developments influencing South Africa’s capital markets.