TMX Group Limited (TMX Group) announced today an agreement to acquire Middlebury Holdings Pty. Limited (Cboe Australia) and Cboe Canada Holdings, ULC (Cboe Canada) from Cboe Global Markets, Inc. for US$300 million ($409 million*) in total consideration, a transaction that will bolster TMX’s ability to serve clients across the capital markets ecosystem, expand the company’s global presence, and accelerate the company’s growth strategy, while reducing cost and complexity for Canadian market participants.

HQLAX, a leading provider of digital collateral mobility solutions, today announced that it has secured strategic minority investments from global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., (NYSE: BR), and Digital Asset in its Series C‑1 funding round.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader, today announced a strategic partnership and minority investment in CENTRL, a leading provider of AI-powered due diligence solutions for financial institutions. The partnership enhances Broadridge’s data and analytics solutions for the asset management and retirement advisory industries with leading due diligence technology and expands its AI-enabled capabilities, helping modernize counterparty due diligence and RFP processes through data-driven, innovative technology.

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology platform services provider, announced that Nick Garrow, who has been serving as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), has assumed the role of Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) – a new position within the firm – and Josh Monroe has joined TT as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Both executives have decades of experience in capital markets and technology leadership.

CMC Markets (“CMC”), a FTSE 250 company and global leader in multi-asset online trading and investing for retail, professional and institutional clients, has launched a new weekend gold trading (Gold - Weekend) product for spread betting and CFDs.

Capital.com, a global fintech building online trading platforms to systematically improve the quality of user decision-making under pressure, has published its Q1 2026 trading platform update, reporting $1.27 trillion in client trading volumes for the period January to March 2026, up 11.2% from $1.14 trillion in Q4 2025.

CLEO, the first trading platform built specifically for crypto and CFD prop firm traders, has integrated with Gold-i’s MatrixNET liquidity management and distribution platform, providing a market leading offering for prop firms, from infrastructure through to interface.

Bloomberg today introduced its Private Direct Lending Data offering, bringing greater visibility and normalization to the fragmented private credit data landscape. Available at {DLEN } on the Bloomberg Terminal and via Data License for scalable enterprise-wide use, the solution aggregates data from multiple sources to cover more than 15,000 active private direct loans, representing approximately $1 trillion in deal flow.

BMLL, the leading independent provider of historical market data and analytics across global equity, ETFs, futures and options, today announced that the BMLL Historical Data is now available via Databricks. This move furthers BMLL’s commitment to delivering content wherever customers need it, with initial users including some of the world’s largest investment management firms.

ING today announces the appointment of Joseph Kerkor as Head of Emerging Markets Credit Trading for EMEA, effective immediately.

Q4 Inc. (Q4), the leading provider of AI-driven IR Ops software, today announced the acquisition of Virtua Research (Virtua), a provider of collaborative consensus analytics and financial modeling solutions.

Point, the Investment Data Intelligence (IDI) platform providing data infrastructure for wealth and asset managers, today announced a partnership with Pretim, a specialist in wealth data automation and aggregation.

Legal & General Asset Management (“L&G”) today announces that its suite of liquidity funds is now available on the Calastone Tokenised Distribution (CTD) Network, marking a significant milestone in L&G’s digital distribution strategy.

ICAP, a global markets intermediary and part of TP ICAP Group, today announced the launch of a global Nuclear Fuels brokerage desk, expanding its energy and commodities offering in response to accelerating demand for reliable, low‑carbon power and renewed global investment in nuclear energy.

Avelacom, a global provider of ultra-low latency network and infrastructure solutions, has launched a new hybrid (fiber and microwave) route between Amsterdam and Tokyo, delivering less than 127 milliseconds (ms) round-trip latency. This sets a new latency benchmark for connectivity between Amsterdam and Asia’s digital asset markets.