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FX is the largest financial market in the world by trading volume and has been at the epicentre of the storm that has hit capital markets over the past three months.

As TT moves further down the path to building a holistic, multi-asset trading platform, foreign exchange (FX) is an essential component of our offering to clients both today and in the future. We recently completed our integration to the EBS Market central limit order book and will soon also offer EBS Direct and CME’s new FX Spot+ platform. 

What are the top five challenges for compliance teams in today’s rapidly evolving regulatory environment? We posed this question to a cross-section of industry experts from the trading and legal communities at a recent panel discussion co-hosted with Foley & Lardner, who provide legal counsel on global regulations for securities, derivatives and other financial products. Ahead of XLoD Global – New York, we’re sharing some of the big themes from the panel and how TT’s trade surveillance software can support trading firms in their compliance operations. 

Professional and institutional traders are increasingly demanding sophisticated algorithms and strategy development software to minimize trading costs and streamline the process of creating low-latency systematic portfolio strategies. The aim of TT’s Quantitative Trading Solutions (QTS) group is to build the algo tools they need to get ahead in a challenging and competitive market.

For more than 15 years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has worked closely with Trading Technologies on our cloud adoption journey. While the TT platform’s primary foundation is hosted in colocated data centers, we leverage AWS’s cloud infrastructure to complement the core platform. We recently talked with AWS’s Brian Cassin, Head of Market Development for Capital Markets, and Alex Mirarchi, Principal Capital Markets Industry Specialist, about how firms can get ahead using the cloud and where the impact of cloud technology is being felt most in financial markets today. 

In the fast-paced world of algorithmic trading, energy markets present a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Unlike traditional asset classes, energy trading involves navigating physical delivery requirements, fragmented markets and extreme volatility. At the recent E-world Energy & Water trade fair in Essen, we caught up with Timo Kieseler, Head of Algorithmic Trading at Vattenfall, to discuss the challenges of algo trading in energy markets, Vattenfall’s partnership with TT and future plans for technology investment.