Competition in retail broking as margins shrink. Brokers are now starting to reconsider their approach to infrastructure and are looking for innovation in the supply of platforms.

The 2023 Australian FIX conference was definitely worth attending.

Buyout funds thought to be attracted to Iress for high cash flow, defensive revenue… Another way of saying customer lock-in and lack of competition?

Onboarding investors and trader is critical for successful exchanges. Over the last 6 months we have substantially improved our onboarding processes.

We have consolidated our Motionite and XStack product websites into our main website. This better allows us to evolve and improve our website as we release new products.

The ASX is scrapping its blockchain-based Chess replacement. This decision makes sense to us as we made a similar decision to replace our blockchain-based Asset Registry system earlier this year.

ArcLight, a streaming mobile trading application is coming.

We responded to the Australian Clean Energy Regulator’s RFEOI for a Carbon Exchange in Australia. While we considered our XStack exchange to be ideal for this use case, the RFEOI required that respondents have a Tier 1 exchange licence. While we don’t hold such a licence, we decided to respond to build our experience in RFEOIs and tenders. As expected, we were not selected for the next round but we learnt a lot in the process.

Refactored to share code with for our upcoming streaming mobile product

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