Market Making for Retail Structured Products: How to Scale Pricing, Hedging, and Risk Control
Market Making for Retail Structured Products: How to Scale Pricing, Hedging, and Risk Control Retail structured products have become a strategic growth engine for banks, brokers, and issuers across Europe. But scaling market making in structured products is no longer just a question of volume. It requires pricing accuracy, hedging efficiency, operational resilience, and full […]
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What Is Volatility Trading? A Practical Guide to Managing Gamma and Vega
What Is Volatility Trading? A Practical Guide to Managing Gamma and Vega Discover a practical approach to volatility trading, focused on controlling Gamma and Vega. Learn how traders use automation and technology to implement volatility strategies effectively. In volatile market conditions, volatility trading has become a core strategy for both speculative and hedging purposes. Rather than focusing […]
Read MoreVolatility Trading Explained: Gamma, Vega and Delta-Hedged Execution
Volatility Trading Beyond Theory Managing volatility exposure efficiently requires more than understanding options Greeks. Traders must continuously monitor Gamma, Vega and Delta while executing and hedging positions in real time. In this webinar replay, Horizon Trading Solutions and derivatives specialist José Blasco explore how institutional trading desks can automate volatility trading workflows, reduce operational risk, and improve execution […]
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5 Financial Markets Trends in 2026: From assets to events, from hours to 24/7, Institutionalization new markets, tokenization, new infrastructure.
5 Financial Markets Trends in 2026: From assets to events, from hours to always-on Introduction: 2026, the Year Market Structure Catches Up With Reality For decades, financial markets have been built around a stable architecture: assets, trading hours, clearing cycles, and well-defined venues. By 2026, that architecture is no longer sufficient. Across traditional finance and […]
Read MoreManaging Gamma & Vega: Customizable Volatility Trading Webinar
Managing Gamma and Vega: Practical and Customizable Frameworks for Volatility Trading Webinar Replay: Move from manual delta-hedging to scalable, systematic volatility execution. The practical challenge Bridging the gap between Volatility theory and live execution For professional desks in Asia’s fast-moving markets, the bottleneck is rarely the “view” it is the implementation. Translating volatility views into […]
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Disruptive Tech in Capital Markets: FIA Asia 2025 Insights
Disruptive Technologies in Capital Markets: What FIA Asia 2025 Revealed About AI, Tokenisation and Stablecoins AI is no longer a “future topic” in financial markets. At FIA Asia 2025, industry leaders from exchanges, trading firms, legal practices and industry bodies discussed how AI, digital assets, tokenisation and stablecoins are moving from experimentation into real market infrastructure. The key message was simple: innovation is accelerating, […]
Read MoreOCEANE Invest Selects Horizon Trading Solutions to Power ETF Market Making
ABU DHABI, Paris – 10th December, 2025 – Horizon Trading Solutions (Horizon), a leading global provider of multi-asset electronic trading technology, today announces a partnership with OCEANE Invest, a new Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) market maker, to deploy its automated market-making and algorithmic trading suite. The collaboration will support OCEANE Invest’s upcoming ETF listings on the […]
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Prediction Markets: The new frontier shaping the future of trading
Prediction Markets: The new frontier shaping the future of trading For decades, financial markets have revolved around a familiar architecture: equities, commodities, FX, and rates surrounded by layers of derivatives for hedging and speculation. Today, something different is happening. Prediction markets venues where participants trade contracts on ‘whether events will happen’ are moving from the […]
Read MoreHorizon at FIA Asia Derivatives Conference 2025
We are pleased to announce that we will be participating as supportive sponsors at the FIA Asia Derivatives Conference 2025, taking place at The St. Regis Singapore. FIA Asia continues to be the premier gathering for the Asia-Pacific cleared derivatives community, bringing together industry leaders, market participants, and innovators to discuss the key developments shaping […]
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Improving Liquidity and Market Depth in Africa’s markets
Improving Liquidity & Market Depth in Africa’s Capital Markets: Why Market-Making and Payment Innovation Matter Africa’s capital markets are evolving rapidly, yet liquidity and market depth remain critical challenges across the continent. Fragmented infrastructures, limited market-making activity, and slow cross-border transaction processes restrict both investor participation and the growth of new financial instruments. However, progress […]
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Why derivatives in the Middle East are still behind – And how to unlock their potential
Why derivatives in the Middle East are still behind – And how to unlock their potential Across the world, derivatives markets are booming. Equity index futures, single-stock options and commodities contracts are used every day to hedge risk, optimise portfolios and generate yield. In fast-growing financial centres in the Middle East, the infrastructure is increasingly […]
Read MoreHorizon Trading Solutions at the 28th ASEA Annual Conference
We’re proud to announce that we are a corporate sponsor of the 28th ASEA Annual Conference, taking place from November 26–28, 2025, at the Kigali Serena Hotel, hosted by the Rwanda Stock Exchange. This prestigious annual gathering brings together key players from across the African and global capital markets ecosystem , including securities exchanges, market […]
Read MoreShinhan Securities Vietnam Deploys Horizon Trading Solutions
Ho Chi Minh City & Paris – 23nd October, 2025 – Horizon Trading Solutions (Horizon), a leading global provider of multi-asset electronic trading technology, today announces that Shinhan Securities Vietnam, part of Shinhan Financial Group, is now live on its multi-asset trading and order management solution. The go-live supports Shinhan’s strategic goal of enhancing its […]
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From AMCs to ETD Execution: How Horizon Accelerates Time-to-Market
From AMCs to ETD Execution: The architecture behind faster time-to-market Practical patterns Horizon uses to launch faster and hedge smarter In Part 1 of this series, we explored the market forces shaping modern trading workflows. In this article, we’ll go deeper revealing how Horizon Trading Solutions delivers faster time-to-market through proven architectural patterns, trade-offs, and […]
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Innovating in Structured Products
Innovating at Speed in Structured Products & Derivatives: Key Takeaways from Zurich At “Oepfelbaum & Friends meets Horizon” in Zurich (2 Oct 2025), we explored one tough question: how to innovate faster in structured products and derivatives while raising the bar on risk management. Horizon Trading Solutions shared global market trends and client learnings. Oepfelbaum […]
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BuyandBuild2025
Buy & Build 2025: Three Key Takeaways from London’s TradingTech Summit The Buy & Build: The future of Capital Markets Technology conference took place on October 2nd in London gathered the leading minds in trading technology to discuss how capital markets firms are modernizing their infrastructures balancing innovation, interoperability, and AI. From legacy transformation to curated […]
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FOW Asia 2025
FOW Asia 2025 – Key Panel Highlights on Derivatives and Futures Markets The FOW Asia 2025 conference brought together leading market participants to discuss the latest trends shaping Asia’s derivatives and futures landscape. Two panels stood out, covering the future of Asia’s options markets and the opportunities in China’s rapidly evolving futures market. Here are […]
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Fix Trading Community Frankfurt 2025
Fix Frankfurt 2025: Technology and Innovation – Connecting the Dots in a Complex Market The recent Fix Frankfurt event brought together market infrastructure specialists, asset managers, and technology providers to explore the future of trading. The panel tackled some of the most pressing issues in financial markets today: the integration of traditional and digital assets, […]
Read MoreHorizon Trading Solutions successfully completes SOC 2® Audit
9 September, 2025, Paris – Horizon Trading Solutions (Horizon), a leading global provider of multi-asset electronic trading technology, today announced its successful completion of System and Organization Controls (SOC) for Services Organizations (SOC 2®) Type 2 examination as of June 30, 2025 for their services, especially their Managed Services. Horizon had previously achieved SOC 2 […]
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