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smartTrade Technologies SAS (smartTrade), a provider of multi-asset electronic trading and payments solutions, has acquired Celoxica, a specialist provider of ultra-low latency execution infrastructure for listed equities, futures, fixed income and options. Celoxica is now part of the smartTrade Group. The announcement was made from Aix-en-Provence, France, and London, UK, on 12 November 2026.
Celoxica delivers ultra-low latency trading services, through software and hardware-accelerated engineering, across 80+ venues worldwide. Its fully managed service is used by Tier 1 prime brokers, systematic quantitative funds and algorithmic trading desks. smartTrade said the acquisition complements its existing ultra-low latency solutions and services, and extends the Group’s coverage from OTC to listed markets, and from orchestration and pricing to execution infrastructure.
The two firms operate at different layers of the front-office stack. smartTrade covers workflow orchestration, pricing and distribution across Trading (LiquidityFX), FX Derivatives (kACE) and Payments (Commercial Banking & Payments). Celoxica covers the risk and execution infrastructure layer, where its feed handlers, market access gateways and order execution engines deliver deterministic, microsecond-to-nanosecond execution with in-line pre-trade risk.
The transaction also extends the Group’s reach into new client segments across the sell side and buy side, and into additional asset classes. It opens Celoxica’s technology to smartTrade’s 250+ clients worldwide, supported by offices, sales, support and engineering teams across EMEA, the Americas and APAC.
David Vincent, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, smartTrade
David Vincent, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, smartTrade said:
"This transaction expands smartTrade’s ecosystem of global, multi-asset trading and payments solutions to include Celoxica’s specialised ultra-low latency execution infrastructure, under the vision of being the electronic trading and payments technology partner of choice for customers. We have always believed that the value we bring to our clients comes from the coherence of the whole, not from any single product. Celoxica has built, with great rigour, a technology that the most demanding institutions in the market rely upon every day, and it sits precisely at the layer of the stack where we wished to grow. We are convinced that, together, we offer our clients something much more valuable than either of us could offer alone."
The acquisition builds on smartTrade’s previous acquisitions, each of which has expanded the Group’s range of products. Jean-Marc Bouhelier, General Manager, Celoxica, continues to lead the business and joins the smartTrade Executive Committee. Celoxica’s client relationships, contracts, support and day-to-day service remain unchanged.
smartTrade said the combined offering is aimed at financial institutions seeking to monetise their flows, reduce risk and grow market share across both OTC and listed markets. Celoxica clients will be able to use smartTrade’s multi-asset trading and payments solutions, including connectivity, aggregation, distribution, OMS and analytics, together with the Group’s AI capabilities. smartTrade clients will gain access to Celoxica’s listed-markets connectivity, ultra-low latency capabilities and pre-trade risk technology.
Jean-Marc Bouhelier, General Manager, Celoxica
Jean-Marc Bouhelier, General Manager, Celoxica said:
"We have joined the smartTrade Group because we share the same view of how this business works: our clients buy a service, not just a product, and they want technology partners who adapt to their priorities. Our team, our leadership, and our way of working with clients remain unchanged. What changes is our reach, smartTrade’s global distribution and its investment in engineering and AI will give our clients access to a larger global platform, which complements the specialist service they rely on today."
smartTrade is a provider of AI-driven, multi-asset trading and payments technology to financial institutions. Headquartered in France, it serves more than 250 clients from 12 offices worldwide, covering FX, precious metals, money markets, fixed income, digital assets and derivatives via secure SaaS.
Its ecosystem comprises Trading (LiquidityFX and smartFI), for ultra-low latency connectivity, aggregation, pricing, distribution and OMS, with AlgoBox for proprietary business logic; Payments (Commercial Banking & Payments), uniting FX and cross-border payments; FX Derivatives (kACE), for derivatives pricing, analytics and risk; and smartTrade Flow, for post-trade processing. Each runs standalone or within the ecosystem. The smartTrade Agentic Copilot (STAC) embeds human-in-the-loop agentic AI across the smartTrade product range.
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