Institutional Market Insights: Technology

While MT4 remains the most widely used retail trading platform, MT5 offers significant upgrades in asset coverage, order types, and analytical tools. This guide breaks down the key differences and helps brokers and traders decide which platform fits their needs.

There are multiple DEXs available, but which one is the best in 2024? Here are six of the best DEXs available and the benefits of each one.

A deep dive into the Balancer protocol, automated portfolio management, and liquidity provision.

Recently, something of real note happened. Berlin Hyp issued a native digital bond and settled it with “old fashioned” money in Target 2, the Euro Systems payment platform. Interoperability was the magic ingredient in this transaction. Wonderful progress. I like to say that interoperability enables connectivity between the three key parts of tomorrow’s infrastructure, which I have dubbed the Holy Trinity: Marketplaces, Asset Custody and the Means of Payment.

Bancor is a blockchain protocol which acts as a decentralised liquidity network, supporting other protocols such as CarbonDeFi. Here’s how the platform works.

Centralised and decentralised exchanges are the foundations of cryptocurrency trading. But what are the main differences and which one should you choose?

Hot and cold wallets are an important part of buying and selling crypto. But how do they work? And what are the key differences?

Find out 6 trading strategies every trader should know: Swing Trading, Position Trading, Day Trading, Price Action Trading, Algorithmic Trading, and News Trading.

Pairs trading is a quantitative, market-neutral strategy that exploits the historical correlation between two securities. When the spread between them diverges, traders go long on the underperformer and short on the outperformer, profiting from mean reversion.

These things are all the rage, so it is worth spending a little time to understand what they are, how they work and what the implications are for your business. If you are in treasury or transaction banking, or trading, I’d offer the view that having some insight and a view on this is essential.

KyberSwap is a decentralised exchange (DEX) and automated market maker (AMM). It provides many different functions but mainly serves as a token swap platform and DEX aggregator. In this article, we cover what Kyberswap is and how it works.

On the MMF front, I’d like to share a couple of things. First, what I learnt watching a recent episode of the Security Token Show, which featured an interview with Archax CEO Graham Rodford and second what I think this means.

A walk-through of some of the features of LiquidityFinder. In this video you will learn how to navigate the dashboard, message other users, update your user profile and much more.

Tokenisation. Let’s allow that this is going to happen. So, if it does, what are the implications for liquidity management?

Understanding soft forks vs hard forks and their impact on liquidity and exchange operations.

PancakeSwap began as an alternative option to other DEXs, but now stands as one of the largest and more innovative DEXs available. We explain what PancakeSwap is and how it works.

Uniswap has been pioneering the DeFi and DEX space ever since its inception in 2018. With Uniswap v4 due in Q3 of 2024, we analyse what Uniswap has achieved.

How and why does Bitcoin halving occur? What could be halving's impact on Bitcoin's price?