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The Future for Trading in the Cloud

If the picture of cloud adoption by trading firms and market services providers is a little grey today, is the…

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Trading Technology

Which Trading Functions are Best Suited to Cloud

In previous blogs, we’ve explored the factors driving capital markets’ embrace of cloud technology (link), the benefits firms are already…

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Trading Technology

Differentiation and Scale–Is Cloud Ready to Transform Trading Infrastructure?

Modern capital markets’ structure has been shaped by the adoption of new technologies. Major regulatory shake-ups, such as MiFID and…

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Trading Technology

Obstacles to Cloud Adoption in Capital Markets Trading

By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. We’ve already talked about what’s driving capital markets’ growing interest in cloud technologies, and…

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Opinions

Are Capital Markets Firms Really Benefitting From Cloud?

By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition In our earlier blogs (here and here), we discussed the factors driving increased adoption…

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Opinions

What’s Driving Capital Markets’ Interest in Cloud?

By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition As we pointed out in our last blog, after an extended period of reticence…

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Trading Technology

Trading in the Cloud–Has Its Time Finally Come?

By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition The structure of capital markets and how they are traded have, to a large…

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Events

View From the Table Top

Rapid Addition was in South Africa last week when CEO Mike Powell and Chairman Kevin Houstoun caught up with RA’s…

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Technology Trading Technology

Platform for Growth – an Emerging Approach to Making Better Trading Technology Decisions

In this article, orginally published in Best Execution, our CEO, Mike Powell, looks at an emerging approach to making better…

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Sell-side Trading Technology

Trading Platform Oversight & Choosing the Right Monitoring Solution

Running a sell-side trading desk is a challenging business. Activity is highly regulated, customers are demanding, and competitors more than…

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Technology

The future of trading technology

Kevin Houstoun shares his thoughts on impactful trends in trading technology during an interview at the recent TradeTech Conference in…

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Technology

New Wave of Fintechs Helping Change the Industry Dynamic

I recently attended an in-person industry conference for the first time in two years. I must admit it felt sightly…

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