Trading Technologies, best known for its futures and options offerings, has been on a mission to diversify across asset classes, including equities.
The SaaS platform provider will be represented at Equities Leaders Summit, January 26-28 in Miami. Peter Weiler, EVP, Head of Data at Trading Technologies, will speak on a Jan. 27 panel entitled ‘The Impacts of 24-Hour Trading and Where It Will Move the Market – Global Demand & Infrastructure Readiness’
Traders Magazine caught up with Weiler, who was CEO of Abel Noser when TT bought the firm in 2023, to learn more.
What is Trading Technologies’ interest in Equities Leaders Summit?
This conference focuses closely on the buy-side community in North America, particularly traders. Obviously it’s an equities conference – TT has been involved in the equities market by virtue of the Abel Noser acquisition, and from that we have a lot of buy-side clients. Abel Noser has been exhibiting at ELS for many years, but equities is brand new territory for TT proper, and the Abel Noser brand is very important to help us get our foot in the door.
What do you expect from ELS 2026?
I expect a key theme will be that ubiquitous term, artificial intelligence, and how it is informing the investment process, traders and portfolio managers. For us, AI is something we’re developing and working on with clients, and we’re going to be assimilating it into some of our products in 2026. So I think we’re aligned with this theme.
Another theme will be along the lines of blockchain and how that will affect the clearance and settlement of equity securities. I’m sure there will be conversations around crypto, and there will be questions around the emergence of prediction markets and some of the partnerships that have been announced recently, for example, Intercontinental Exchange with Polymarket.
From a regulatory standpoint, obviously the SEC has changed, with a new Chairperson. Jamie Selway, who is the new Director of the Division of Trading and Markets, is an industry veteran and expert in market structure. He’s tackling the efficacy of current trading rules and reviewing the intersection of legacy finance and new digitized offerings. There will be conversations at ELS around how it’s all affecting traders and how it may affect the buy side in the future.
What capabilities/functionality does Trading Technologies offer for the buy side?
We’re aiming to leverage the decades of relationships that Abel Noser has, to let the buy side know that while we may be synonymous with trade cost analytics, we’re not a one-trick pony anymore. TCA is just one spoke in the wheel. We offer risk and compliance support with our trade surveillance products for equities and fixed income. We’re not a broker-dealer but we have trade execution platforms, and we’re a big player on the futures side – our clients tend to be larger firms, so if they have an equity allocation, they’ll also have a fixed income allocation.
We also want to let the world know that we have a buy-side fixed income OEMS coming up in the second half of the year. FX is another piece of the platform that we’ve spent a lot of time and resources on, to allow anyone who’s on the TT platform for any type of trade to also execute an FX transaction.
A big reason for the Abel Noser acquisition was to add equities, and we’re only at the beginning in terms of what we can do in the asset class.
