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...

TradeTech 2026

Venues, market makers seek to ignite European retail

Hypnotised by the US retail juggernaut, European venues and market makers are stepping up their attempts to incentivise this highly valued but largely untapped...

TradeTech 2026

Multi-asset desks, vibecoding and fast turnover: Navigating the new desk

Both Janus Henderson Investors and BNY Newton Investments have restructured their trading desks, adopting new approaches to asset class segmentation and vendor selection as...

TradeTech 2026

Boomaars: high-frequency trading defends Optiver’s central risk book

The Dutch market making giant protects a €130bn central risk book with a ‘latent backbone’ that allows it to react quickly across asset classes,...

TradeTech 2026

European fragmentation is good, actually, market participants say

Contrasting the popular complaints of a dying lit market and the pains of fragmentation in European capital markets, panellists at TradeTech Europe argued that...