Global Trading

Lit market trading in Europe is declining, with systematic internalisers and the closing auction picking up the slack. Yet some feel pushed into these alternatives, and worry about the impact […]

Exchange group SIX has quietly given up on a plan to stop high-frequency traders competing for low-latency access, after a campaign led by provider McKay Brothers, whose co-founder Stephane Tyc […]

UBS is decimating the competition in equity trading revenues, reporting €2 billion in Q1 2026 – a cool €700 million ahead of its closest rival, Barclays. Equity trading revenues increased […]

Making It Work – What defines a successful outsourced trading partnership   Choosing the right outsourced trading partner is just the beginning. The real test lies in making the partnership […]

The Dutch market making giant protects a €130bn central risk book with a ‘latent backbone’ that allows it to react quickly across asset classes, according to CEO Jan Boomaars As […]

Hypnotised by the US retail juggernaut, European venues and market makers are stepping up their attempts to incentivise this highly valued but largely untapped source of flow. But they face […]

Retail participation in listed derivatives has become one of the most closely watched structural shifts in the market, and according to the latest Crisil Coalition Greenwich and FIA 2026 Derivatives Market Structure […]

Ping Woo Tan has been promoted to an associate director and portfolio manager at Fullerton Fund Management. Based in Singapore, Tan has responsibility for the global absolute return portfolio. Fullerton, […]

Lawrence Tanzman has swapped Citadel Securities for Optiver, joining the firm as a quantitative trader. Optiver reported €4.6 billion in net trading income for full-year 2025, up 30% year-on-year. Earlier […]

Frank Drouet has been named APAC CEO at Flow Traders as the firm expands its presence in the region. He is based in Hong Kong. Fabian Rijlaarsdam has been appointed […]

Navigating rate volatility, AI CapEx, and private credit risks.   Rising rate volatility is driving divergence between US and European credit markets, says Sarah Harrison, senior portfolio manager at Allspring […]

Both Janus Henderson Investors and BNY Newton Investments have restructured their trading desks, adopting new approaches to asset class segmentation and vendor selection as pressures on the buy-side desk increase. […]

Reaction-time data from Eurex high-precision timestamps shows the fastest product-to-product reactions slowing by around three nanoseconds after new packet-level monitoring came into force on 20 April, supporting Mosaic Finance’s long-running […]

Canadian exchange TMX Group has agreed to acquire Cboe’s Canadian and Australian businesses, after they were put up for sale last year. The US$300 million transaction will reduce costs for […]

Contrasting the popular complaints of a dying lit market and the pains of fragmentation in European capital markets, panellists at TradeTech Europe argued that the situation is increasing competition, pushing […]

Although artificial intelligence (AI) has many valuable use cases, market participants have cooled on its use in trading. There is space for automation to increase trading, but some at TradeTech […]

Dejan Teofilovic has joined Kepler Chevreux’s KCx team as a retail trader.  Based in Paris, he is responsible for the continued growth of the firm’s retail services.   KCx’s retail flow comes from retail banks including Crédit Agricole, La […]

Markets eye tariff deadline, and liquidity shifts for H2.   Equities traders in 2026 are navigating highly volatile, fast-moving markets shaped by rapid price swings and the growing influence of […]

Scott Bradley and Adam Sherlock of OneChronos spoke to Global Trading about how their new UK and EU platforms bring the benefits of combinatorial auction technology to Europe’s fragmented liquidity […]

Marc Natale, global head of sales engineering and marketing at Murex speaks to TraderTV. Foreign exchange markets are undergoing substantial change, driven by rising market volatility, the evolving settlement landscape, […]