24/5 Trading Is Moving From Concept to Market Infrastructure Reality
We recently attended an FISD event featuring a panel on 24/5 trading. Participants discussed how extended trading hours are reshaping expectations across the trading lifecycle, from order flow and clearing…
How Digital Assets Are Changing Trading
Digital assets are no longer a niche market. They have become a proving ground for new market structures, smart contracts, tokenization, and prediction markets. As adoption accelerates, these innovations are…
What Are Smart Contracts?
And Why Are Trading Firms Paying Attention? Speed has always been a competitive advantage in financial markets. Firms spend millions improving execution, reducing latency, and processing information faster than their…
AI-Ready Data: The New Strategic Edge for Capital Markets
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural NYC BMLL Client Summit. The room was a cross-section of the industry—buy-side and sell-side leaders, and market structure experts—all…
What Are Frontier Markets?
Definition, Risks, Opportunities, and Infrastructure Challenges As global markets become increasingly interconnected and accessible around the clock, firms are looking beyond traditional exchanges in search of new liquidity and untapped…
3 Ways Market Data-as-a-Service Can Protect Your Business
Yesterday’s Infrastructure is Today’s Financial Loss Skyrocketing message rates and frequent exchange changes push traditional market data systems to their limits. Market data-as-a-Service offers an alternative approach. Outsourcing infrastructure management…
What Types of Financial Data Providers Are There?
We give an overview of the different financial market data providers and assess some of the trade-offs between each type.
Europe’s Consolidated Tape: What Trading Firms Need to Know in 2026
For years, Europe operated without a consolidated view of equity trading. While other markets built centralized ways to view trades and prices across venues, Europe remained fragmented. That changed in…
Insights from the Capital Markets Innovation Summit | London 2026
Solving Today’s Technology Challenges On April 15, Exegy hosted the Capital Markets Innovation Summit: London Edition, where industry leaders discussed key trends like market convergence and digital assets, setting the…
What Is a Consolidated Tape?
A Simple Guide to Market Data Consolidation Financial markets generate massive amounts of data across exchanges, trading venues, and regions. But without a way to unify that information, market participants…