TT^® Connect Blog

At TT, we talk a lot about what we call the “unfair TT advantage.” Our deep roots in one of the most active and loyal client bases in global markets: futures and options traders. These users know our platform, trust its performance and rely on its scale every day. 

So when we decided to launch FX trading on TT, we were building it on this advantage. We are launching our unified FX offering for institutional traders who trade multi-asset strategies day in, day out at hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, banks and a whole host of other institutions. Adding FX extends the TT platform for these traders. We are not trying to reinvent the wheel with our entry into FX, but to consolidate the fragmentation faced when trading cross-asset. 

This is an exciting time to have joined TT as CTO, as we execute another dramatic shift in how trading software is delivered and used by customers. TT was the first mover in the transition from desktop to cloud. Today, we are a platform business expanding across asset classes and functionality as we build the operating system of capital markets. 

Trading Technologies was traditionally a futures and options business. But today we are a multi-asset company on a path to building the operating system of capital markets. Our goal is to provide seamless, integrated access to best-of-breed applications and datasets, enabling customers across every role and function to power their trading workflows more effectively than traditional financial services technology providers. 

Retail participation in the Asian listed derivatives markets has surged over the past five years, driven by access to digital platforms, mobile connectivity and a new generation of investors that are more educated than ever about our markets. Although the retail trading boom has not been limited to Asia, the region’s demographics–the sheer size of the population, dominated by younger generations and a fast-growing middle class–elevate its impact on regional derivatives markets.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming how firms process and analyze data. For traders, the deployment of AI alongside cloud-based infrastructure is creating new efficiencies in everything from risk management to alpha generation. At the recent TT Connect: The Evolution of Execution event in London, industry experts discussed how advances in AI and data management were reshaping how they approached global markets.