All posts by Elise Fleischaker, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer

TT has a long history of winning awards for our products, including Derivatives Trading System of the Year, Best EMS Provider, TCA Provider of the Year, Best Algorithmic Trading Provider and Trade Surveillance Product of the Year, just to name a few. But it’s not just our products that are best in class. It’s also our people. So I was thrilled when our own Alice Pocklington, who serves as TT’s EVP Head of APAC, was named Best in Fintech at the 2025 Women in Finance Asia Awards earlier this month. 

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.

Capital markets are among both the biggest producers and consumers of data across all global industries. In the fast-paced world of financial markets, exchanges are the hubs through which much of the data flows. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are being applied to achieve significant efficiency gains across capital markets. One of the people who is deeply involved in the advancements of these technologies in our industry is Andy Simpson, Founder and CEO of financial markets analytics firm Sigma Financial AI. In the lead-up to our recent TT Connect: Unlocking Profit with Data and Analytics event, where he moderated the panel “AI – evolution or revolution?”, we caught up with Andy about how the growth of AI and ML is changing research and analytics.

Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) is experiencing a stellar year for derivatives trading with its recent September average daily trading volumes up 35% year-on-year and liquidity growing strongly across a wide range of asset classes. Ahead of FIA Asia in Singapore this week, we spoke with Matt Judge, European Head of Sales at the exchange about the trends that he is seeing in the market and how SGX Group is providing the global trading community with opportunities to trade hard-to-access markets in Asia.