Tag: Aquis Exchange

The past week saw appointments from SIX Swiss Exchange, Outset Global, Aquis Exchange and Trading Technologies.

Appointments collectively have over two decades of experience at the exchange; previously served at Instinet, AKJ, Curzon Securities, Liquidnet, and Chi-X Europe, The TRADE can reveal.

Functionality is expected to go live on Monday 5 June and comes alongside enhancements to its Auction on Demand (AoD) service.

New offering will not require downtime, allowing exchanges to experience continuous operation with no need for shutdown for software upgrades, infrastructure changes or capacity increases.

Alasdair Haynes, chief executive of Aquis Exchange, discusses strong performance figures from last year, diversification, and milestones achieved in dark trading.

The TRADE catches up with Sakeena Lalljee, director, business development at Aquis Exchange, to discuss the exchange’s move into dark trading, the fragmented nature of European markets and efforts to diversify and attract market participants.

Outsourced trading, liquidity challenges, increased buy-side competition and retail participation are subjects high on our experts’ agenda in this review.

Deployment of Exegy’s Axiom consolidated feed will provide market data from European venues for use in Aquis’ internal matching engines on its UK and EU venues.

Learn more about the five firms shortlisted for our Editors’ Choice Award for Outstanding Equities Trading Venue this year: including Aquis Exchange, Cboe Europe, Euronext, Nasdaq European Markets and Turquoise.  

The launch of its new EU dark pool follows its move to absorb UBS’ UK-based MTF business in April.