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The exchange sector is moving on three fronts at once
Exchanges are being pulled in three directions at once: an always-on trading day, tokenised infrastructure moving from pilot to production, and a widening competitive gap between regions. The pattern is as visible in current market activity as it is in what exchange leadership is saying publicly.
Always-on trading. CME's Derek Sammann points to 24/7 trading going live on selected WTI and gold futures, part of a wider push into AI-driven markets. Bybit is moving the same way from the other direction, extending its own always-on model from crypto into traditional assets. CME is also among FOW Intelligence's most active subscribers.
Tokenisation and digital-asset infrastructure. Eurex's Robbert Booij describes Eurex products going live on Kraken's infrastructure, bridging traditional and digital-asset derivatives. Kraken's own USD perpetual futures launch, across 17 cryptocurrencies through its Bitnomial exchange, is the same bridge being built from the other side.
Competing financial centres. Euronext's Simon Gallagher has called for a single EU regulatory supervisor, naming Europe's competitiveness gap against the US and Asia directly. Acuiti's own research points to the same fragmentation in practice: differences in Basel III implementation across regions are already splitting dealer balance sheets and liquidity apart.
This is FOW's daily coverage of exchanges. A trial gets you the same read every day, as it happens, not just when a headline forces the catch-up.
Post-trade investment is now a strategic priority for banks, and liquidity is drifting toward listed markets
Two pressures are showing up in how banks trade derivatives: heavier investment in post-trade infrastructure, and a steady pull of liquidity toward listed markets. Both are visible in current volumes, not only in what desks are saying about them.
Post-trade and regulatory complexity. TT's David Romeo and Maxime Jeanniard du Dot name Dodd-Frank, EMIR, MiFID and the FIA's new DEMIST rule as the drivers behind fresh investment in post-trade automation and real-time risk management. A recent OSTTRA report backs that up from the industry side: exchanges and financial institutions are naming post-trade investment a strategic priority in its own right, aimed at capital efficiency and turning settlement infrastructure into a competitive edge rather than a cost centre.
Liquidity moving toward listed markets. Liquidnet's Oliver Deutschmann is seeing volatility push flow into listed derivatives, where speed and liquidity beat the alternative, with investors turning to futures to hedge for the first time. ICE's own volumes back it up: agriculture and metals trading up 92% to a record, energy up 13% year on year.
This is the granular, desk-level view FOW brings to banks daily. A trial puts these calls in your inbox as they land, not weeks later in a roundup.
Know the market before the pitch, and where your client stands in it
A PR or comms pitch for an exchange or a bank rests on two things: what is actually moving in that client's market, and where the client stands against the competitors it is being measured against. FOW Intelligence covers both, Industry Insights and Special Reports for the market read, Volumes Data and Volumes League Tables for the benchmark.
A specific job inside FOW's own readership. Communications and PR titles already sit inside FOW's exchange and bank readership. PR and comms agencies advising those same organisations use it for one job: building the client-facing reports and briefings the account itself has no time to write.
Market context for the pitch. FOW's daily coverage, In-Briefs and Analysis generally, Industry Insights by sector, Special Reports for the deeper story, surfaces what is moving in a client's market before it is common knowledge. That is the material behind a credible PR recommendation.
A number behind the benchmark. Volumes Data and Volumes League Tables give a PR team a citable comparison point when advising a client on where it stands against named competitors, useful for a story pitch, an award submission, or a client briefing.
This is the daily read PR and comms teams use to build client-facing material. A trial gives you the same view.
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