The Plumbing Problem Behind Tokenized Finance

Sometime in the next twelve months, a portfolio manager at one of your clients will want to post tokenized treasuries as margin alongside traditional government bonds. The position of economics, credit risk, and legal claim on the underlying sovereign debt is identical. And your systems will treat them as though they arrived from different planets — because, operationally, they did....

Market Structure, Liquidity and the Future of European Trading In this episode of FinTech Focus TV, hosted by Ian Bailey, we are joined by Laetitia Visconti, Head of Market Structure and Product Innovation at Aquis Exchange. Recorded live at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference 2026, this conversation delivers a sharp, insight-led view into the realities shaping European capital markets today. For anyone involved in FinTech recruitment,...

How Fixed Income Trading is Being Reshaped by Automation and Regulation The fixed income trading landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by a combination of regulatory change, increasing automation, and the growing complexity of institutional workflows. In this episode of FinTech Focus TV, host Ian Bailey is joined by Steve Toland to explore how global banks, hedge funds, and financial institutions are adapting to...

The conversation recorded live at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference 2026 in London brings together two highly relevant voices in today’s financial technology landscape. Hosted by Toby Babb on FinTech Focus TV, this episode features Roland Chai, President of European Markets and Head of Digital Assets at Nasdaq. Set against the backdrop of one of the industry’s most important gatherings, the discussion captures a...

The FCA’s consultation questioned whether SI quotes should be used to determine the best bid offer (BBO) alongside venue quotes, or whether all quotes provided from SIs should be published and/or a BBO from public SI quotes as a separate figure to the trading venue-derived BBO. Continue Reading…

The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has called for changes to UK financial regulation as part of its responses to FCA consultations on the UK consolidated tape (CP25/31), and transaction reporting (CP25/32). Continue Reading…

The FIX Trading Community has called for significant changes to UK financial regulation in its formal response to FCA consultations on the UK consolidated tape and transaction reporting. Executive Director Jim Kaye emphasised that harmonising UK reporting rules more closely with EU standards would reduce complexity, lower the reporting burden, and improve the quality of market data. By addressing current...

The FIX Trading Community has urged that changes should be made to UK financial regulation, following on from the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consultations on the UK consolidated tape (CT) and transaction reporting.   Ahead of the introduction of the UK CT for equities, currently set to go live in 2027, the community emphasised concerns around post-trade transparency, outlined in six...