The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2025

Virtu Financial has collaborated with cloud-native investment management solution provider, Limina to enhance buy-side workflows. The post Virtu Financial partners with Limina to enhance buy-side workflows appeared first on The TRADE.

Collaboration

Sun Acquisitions

JULY 21, 2025

Operational Assessment: Evaluate the target company’s operations, management team, and overall business processes. Foster a Positive Culture: Create a positive and inclusive work environment that encourages collaboration and teamwork between employees of both companies.

M&A

Sun Acquisitions

JUNE 27, 2025

Assess the company’s management team and employee base. Collaborate Effectively: Foster collaboration between the buyer’s and seller’s teams to ensure a smooth and efficient process. Identify any potential operational risks or inefficiencies.

Valuation

Midaxo

JUNE 20, 2025

Whether you’re managing one deal or a dozen, the complexity of modern M&A requires more than spreadsheets, siloed emails, and scattered notes. A few things that set M&A powerhouses apart: Centralized Deal Management: A single source of truth keeps your pipeline organized and your team aligned.

M&A

Beyond M&A

JULY 31, 2025

As part of our early prep, we challenged the management team: “Put together a list of your top risks — the stuff that keeps you up at night.” This one’s a blocker — but that one’s manageable.” The due diligence shifted from interrogation to collaboration. It helped the management team. It was honest.

Investors

Sun Acquisitions

JULY 1, 2025

Far from being disruptive, a well-managed merger or acquisition can create a more vital, dynamic organization capable of delivering excellent value to customers, employees, and stakeholders. Then, actively design initiatives encouraging cross-team collaboration and fostering a unified organizational culture. The result?

Mergers

Sun Acquisitions

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Communication & Collaboration: Seamless and Secure Gone are the days of endless email chains and scattered documents. Cloud-based collaboration platforms have emerged as a game-changer, enabling seamless communication and information sharing between internal and external stakeholders, regardless of location.

M&A

The TRADE

APRIL 29, 2025

Tanuja Randery The announcement marks an extension of LSEG and AWS multi-year collaboration and will see the exchange migrate its internal systems to the cloud. Daniel Maguire, group head of markets at LSEG , said: Our ongoing collaboration with AWS is an important part of the groups cloud strategy. The move allowed Murexs MX.3

Collaboration

Beyond M&A

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Theres a version of Tech Due Diligence that is inherently collaborative because it involves working openly with the target company and the investment bank. However, the key difference is the mindset of the management teamthey want to know what they might be missing. At Beyond M&A, we prefer to call it Pre-Emptive Due Diligence.

M&A

Sun Acquisitions

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Automation can streamline various integration processes, from IT system consolidation to HR management. Enhancing Communication and Collaboration Effective communication and collaboration are essential for successful integration. Ensure that all teams have access to real-time information and updates.

M&A

Focus Investment Banking

JUNE 17, 2025

This shift reflects a drive for transparency and risk management, but it comes with a caveat: nuance is critical. Announcement vs. Close Date The timing between a deal’s public announcement and its closing is critical for managing stakeholder expectations, employee morale, and market perceptions.

Negotiation

Midaxo

JULY 31, 2025

Here’s what can set top-performing portfolio companies apart: Centralized Pipeline Management: Real-time visibility across platforms, targets, and team members—so nothing falls through the cracks. Built-In Governance: Manage access, compliance, and third-party collaboration without slowing down the process.

M&A

Focus Investment Banking

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

” The 2024 IT Nation Torch Award Honorees are: Partner Excellence Award: Abraham Garver , Managing Director at FOCUS Investment Banking, was recognized for his exceptional contributions to the IT Nation and ConnectWise communities, consistently driving value and supporting partners’ growth. Discover more at connectwise.com/theitnation.

IT

The TRADE

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Alecta added that its requirements for the new solution included the ability to trade cross-asset, offer innovative new functionality, and connect to Alecta’s existing order management tool, Order Manager. “We’re seeing increased activity in the Nordic region, with Alecta being the latest client to be live using FlexTRADER.

Trading

The TRADE

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Vikesh Patel With this approval, the pan-European clearing house will introduce a service for European SFT transactions in cash equities and ETFs, which includes central clearing, settlement and post-trade lifecycle management.

Finance

The TRADE

JULY 29, 2025

In June 2025, the firm collaborated with Wedbush Securities in a move which saw the firm adopting Rapid Addition’s cloud-ready platform, with the aim of streamlining multi-asset trading, risk management, and post-trade processes. Mike Powell Through the partnership, TradingStack.io

Collaboration

The TRADE

JULY 3, 2025

The transaction is the result of a collaboration between ADX, HSBC, and FAB, combining local market infrastructure with international expertise in digital issuance. HSBC acted as sole global coordinator, lead manager and bookrunner for the issuance, supporting the end-to-end blockchain-based transaction.

Capital Market

MergersCorp M&A International

JUNE 14, 2025

This collaboration allows us to provide even more robust and integrated services, ensuring our clients can navigate complex capital landscapes with expert guidance and seamless execution, ultimately accelerating their growth trajectories.”

M&A

The TRADE

JULY 7, 2025

The post Australian Securities Exchange, Tokyo Stock Exchange and Fujitsu collaborate on RFQ platform appeared first on The TRADE. In May 2022, the exchange partnered with technology provider Beeks Financial Cloud Group to provide clients with colocation infrastructure to connect to the Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC).

Collaboration

The TRADE

JUNE 16, 2025

Euronext and Clearstream have unveiled a new partnership aimed at advancing the continued development of Euronext Clearing’s collateral management services across repo, as well as other asset classes. Anthony Attia The move is a step closer to Euronext’s goal of creating a unified, pan-European clearing model for its repo clearing franchise.

Management

How2Exit

MARCH 10, 2025

The Power of Virtual Rollups – Richmond discusses his success with virtual rollups, where companies in similar industries collaborate, scale, and eventually exit together for higher valuations. Management Buyouts. The Fastest Way to Exit? So what does Richmond look for in acquisition targets?

Business

The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2025

John Ions, chief executive of Liontrust, said: “Trading for asset managers has changed significantly over the past few years with the increasing use of automation and technological developments. Our collaboration with BNY will enable Liontrust to achieve this.”

Trading

The TRADE

DECEMBER 10, 2024

GFO-X offers a trading platform built for institutions, providing investors with a secure and efficient trading environment to manage digital asset exposure. This strategic collaboration underscores our shared commitment to advancing the institutional digital asset futures and options market.

Banking

The TRADE

JULY 14, 2025

The ‘cloud strategies in financial services’ survey includes insights from financial firms across the industry, including banks, private equity, investment management, asset management; broker dealers, hedge funds, pension funds, and more.

Investment

Midaxo

MARCH 19, 2025

The Need for KPI Management Inorganic growth is a critical driver to business success. Such confidence helps inform key decisions e.g., capital allocation, optimizing returns, and managing risks. Typically, the transaction and integration phases are managed by separate teams. Project Management. Deal Score Priority.

M&A

The TRADE

JUNE 25, 2025

Cloud-native data and investment management platform, FINBOURNE Technology has integrated with AI safety and research company Anthropic in a push to bring AI agent offerings to financial operations. Tom McHugh The partnership leverages Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude, and combines its Model Context Protocol (MCP) with FINBOURNE’s APIs to securely (..)

Architecture

The TRADE

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Liquidity management service provider OptimX Markets has partnered with BMO Capital Markets to bring the firm’s institutional algorithmic trading flow to institutional buy-side trading desks in European markets. BMO will now offer a range of trading opportunities tailored to their institutional client base through OptimX.

Capital

The TRADE

JANUARY 15, 2025

Gregg Dalley Specifically, Schroders is leveraging Propellant’s fixed-income transparency data through Virtus global multi-asset execution management system (EMS), Triton Valor. Our collaboration with industry leaders like Schroders and Virtu presents an exciting opportunity to further explore these possibilities.

Trading

The TRADE

JULY 3, 2025

In collaboration with the market, fairCT will deliver a comprehensive view of bond transactions, empowering market participants with better price discovery and fostering market integrity.”

Trading

Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 21, 2025

We are excited to welcome Joe to FOCUS Investment Banking, said Giorgio Andonian, Managing Director of the Automotive group at FOCUS. I am thrilled to join FOCUS Investment Banking and collaborate with such a talented team in the Automotive group, said Joe Tomarchio.

Investment Banking

Midaxo

MAY 8, 2025

A practical example: before centralizing their process, Allstar Services Group was managing their M&A pipeline in Excel and emailrelying on manual updates and static PDF reports. Healthcare management company, CareAbout Health , experienced this challenge in the early stages of their rapid growth.

M&A

The TRADE

JUNE 23, 2025

Broadridge has named Kenneth MacHarg as its new managing director, global head of futures and options trading, effective 23 June. The move will see MacHarg leading Broadridge’s futures and options (F&O) platform as part of a push to enhance the solution’s leadership.

Trading

The TRADE

APRIL 16, 2025

Coinbase Derivatives and Pico have established a collaboration aimed at enhancing trading infrastructure and connectivity. “[] We have again proven our ability to provide innovative, reliable and scalable solutions tailored to the needs of digital asset markets, as well as leading banks, exchanges, asset managers and trading firms.”

Collaboration

Sun Acquisitions

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Communication Silos: Different communication styles can create misunderstandings and hinder collaboration. Retention of Top Talent: The merged company can attract and retain top talent by fostering a culture of inclusion and collaboration. This can lead to a decline in morale, productivity, and innovation.

M&A

The TRADE

JULY 31, 2025

David Schwimmer The markets offering provides secondary market trading for equities, fixed income, interest rate derivatives, foreign exchange (FX) and other asset classes, as well as clearing, risk management, capital optimisation and regulatory reporting solutions. Equities revenue reached £205 million, a 4.4%

Risk Management

The TRADE

JULY 3, 2025

Be tech-savvy When it comes to technology and data management, its importance cannot be overlooked, and remains key. Going a step further, the collaboration between these parties was also flagged.

Trading

The TRADE

JANUARY 22, 2025

I spent a lot of time in my sell-side days working as a conduit between capital markets and the origination desk within investment banking as a bridge into the public side, covering hedge funds and multi strategy investment managers for anything equity-linked and credit with a cross-asset mindset.

Funds