TT^® Connect Blog

Across the sell side, three key themes are shaping investment decisions in 2026: automation, consolidation and artificial intelligence. These priorities reflect the pressures firms face today—rising costs, tightening margins and increasing trading volumes.

As trading volumes continue to grow, many firms are finding that their legacy infrastructure—often built as separate systems across asset classes—is becoming harder and more expensive to maintain, creating both competitive and operational challenges. 

Across asset classes within capital markets, the demands on trading and analytics platforms are becoming more complex by the day. In today’s markets, traders want broad asset coverage, cleaner data, faster insights and analytics that reflect the complexity of modern market structure. With the rebrand of Abel Noser Solutions to Trading Technologies now complete, our focus is to build technology that scales with how firms actually transact and anticipates where markets are heading.

Whatever the market or asset class, the goal of trade surveillance is always the same: to identify potentially manipulative behavior and ensure regulatory compliance. What differs is how firms achieve that goal. Each firm operates uniquely, with its own risk profiles, data models and resources. As a result, there is no “one-size-fits-all” surveillance approach. 

2025 was a year of strong momentum for Trading Technologies in Asia. As global participation in regional markets accelerated, we continued to capitalize on the growing opportunities across this vibrant region. We saw a healthy increase in international volumes flowing into regional markets alongside a successful expansion of our local client base.

In 2026, our strategy is clear: to continue to build out the TT platform as the operating system of capital markets. As well as a slate of product launches and enhancements, the big news for us in 2025 was the investment we received from Thoma Bravo alongside 7RIDGE, our existing owners. With the backing of Thoma Bravo and 7RIDGE, we now have the ability to accelerate investment while staying focused on our core disciplines of service excellence, stability, performance and innovation.