{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"ipushpull blog","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog","description":"Latest news and insights for data sharing and workflow automation.","language":"en-gb","pubDate":"Thu, 28 May 2026 06:38:28 GMT","item":[{"title":"Six Things OTC Traders Believe About Trade Capture Automation (That Aren't True)","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/six-things-otc-traders-believe-about-trade-capture-automation-that-arent-true","description":"
\n \"Six <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

Every OTC desk knows manual trade entry is inefficient. The firms that haven't automated it aren't unaware of the problem. They have specific, reasonable objections that have so far won the argument. Most of those objections were legitimate a few years ago, but not anymore.<\/span><\/p>","pubDate":"Thu, 28 May 2026 05:57:41 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/six-things-otc-traders-believe-about-trade-capture-automation-that-arent-true"},{"title":"ipushpull joins AIMA, leading hedge fund association, to support governed data and AI","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ipushpull-joins-aima-leading-hedge-fund-association-to-support-governed-data-and-ai","description":"

\n \"ipushpull <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

London, 20th May 2026<\/strong> \u2014 ipushpull, the data sharing and workflow automation platform, has joined the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) as a member. The membership reflects ipushpull\u2019s growing engagement with the alternative investment community. It supports its work helping hedge funds, asset managers, and trading firms govern data sharing, automate workflows and reduce operational risk.<\/p>","category":"Press releases","pubDate":"Wed, 20 May 2026 06:40:47 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ipushpull-joins-aima-leading-hedge-fund-association-to-support-governed-data-and-ai"},{"title":"ipushpull certified as SOC 2 type 2 compliant","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ipushpull-achieves-soc-2-type-2-attestation","description":"

\n \"ipushpull <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

London, 5th May 2026<\/strong> \u2014 ipushpull, the data sharing and workflow automation platform, today announced it has been certified as SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, validating the strength of ipushpull's data security and privacy controls in its platform.<\/p>","category":"Press releases","pubDate":"Tue, 05 May 2026 07:26:07 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ipushpull-achieves-soc-2-type-2-attestation"},{"title":"Why Trade Capture is Still a People Problem in 2026","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/why-trade-capture-is-still-a-people-problem-in-2026","description":"

\n \"Why <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

OTC trading desks have spent the last decade investing in execution technology, connectivity and risk infrastructure. Matching engines are faster when using on-chain technologies. Data distribution is more sophisticated. AI is being piloted across front-office workflows.<\/p>","pubDate":"Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:21:13 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/why-trade-capture-is-still-a-people-problem-in-2026"},{"title":"The Market is Already in Chat Messages: Turning Conversations into Data","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/the-market-is-already-in-chat-messages-turning-conversations-into-data","description":"

\n \"The <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

In a previous blog<\/a>, we <\/span>looked <\/span>at <\/span>how <\/span>end-<\/span>of-<\/span>day <\/span>chat <\/span>transcripts <\/span>can <\/span>be <\/span>processed <\/span>into <\/span>structured <\/span>quote <\/span>data. <\/span>A <\/span>blotter <\/span>populated <\/span>not <\/span>from <\/span>a <\/span>system <\/span>of <\/span>record <\/span>but <\/span>from <\/span>the <\/span>conversations <\/span>that <\/span>happened <\/span>before <\/span>anything <\/span>was <\/span>formally <\/span>recorded. <\/span>The <\/span>value <\/span>proposition <\/span>there <\/span>was <\/span>recovery. <\/span>Data <\/span>that <\/span>had <\/span>been <\/span>lost <\/span>to <\/span>history <\/span>becomes <\/span>usable.<\/span><\/p> \n

This <\/span>blog <\/span>covers <\/span>the <\/span>next <\/span>step.<\/span><\/p>","pubDate":"Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:18:37 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/the-market-is-already-in-chat-messages-turning-conversations-into-data"},{"title":"What it actually costs to build your own front-office integrations, bots and agents","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/what-it-actually-costs-to-build-your-own-front-office-integrations-bots-and-agents","description":"

\n \"What <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

Your core platform is live. Your trading systems run. Then the requests start arriving.<\/span><\/p> \n

Your traders need live prices in their spreadsheets. Your sales desk needs to push axe data to clients without every counterparty having to build their own connection. Your operations team needs trade confirmations captured from chat and booked into your system of record without manual re-keying. Your technology team is being asked to build AI agents that pull from internal systems and deliver outputs into the tools where people actually work.<\/span><\/p> \n

The instinct is always the same: we'll build it.<\/span><\/p>","pubDate":"Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:55:56 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/what-it-actually-costs-to-build-your-own-front-office-integrations-bots-and-agents"},{"title":"ipushpull Wins \u2018Best OTC Derivatives Trading Solution\u2019 at TradingTech Insight Awards","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ipushpull-wins-best-otc-derivatives-trading-solution-at-tradingtech-insight-awards","description":"

\n \"ipushpull <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

LONDON, 27th February, 2026  \u2014  ipushpull has been named Best OTC Derivatives Trading Solution<\/em> at the 2026 A-Team Group TradingTech Insight Awards Europe. The awards recognise excellence and innovation across capital markets technology, including trading infrastructure, core trading platforms, and data solutions.<\/p>","category":"Press releases","pubDate":"Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:41:27 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ipushpull-wins-best-otc-derivatives-trading-solution-at-tradingtech-insight-awards"},{"title":"Building Data Distribution That Scales, Lessons from the Market","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/building-data-distribution-that-scales-lessons-from-the-market","description":"

\n \"Building <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

If a client needs to schedule internal development work to use your data, adoption will stall.<\/p> \n

On paper, distribution looks easy. You expose an API. You publish documentation. You ship an Excel add-in. Job done.<\/p> \n

Most financial firms already have APIs. They have cloud infrastructure. They have engineering teams capable of building connectors. Yet adoption of data and analytics products still lags ambition.<\/p> \n

In practice, usage depends on what the client has to do next. Do they need a developer? Do they need a security review? Do they need to reconcile entitlement logic with their own systems? If the answer is yes, your \u201cavailable\u201d product is competing with everything else on their roadmap. And it will usually lose.<\/span><\/p>","pubDate":"Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:56:24 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/building-data-distribution-that-scales-lessons-from-the-market"},{"title":"Abaxx Exchange Partners with ipushpull to Deliver Real-Time Market Data Directly into Microsoft Excel","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/abaxx-exchange-partners-with-ipushpull-to-deliver-real-time-market-data-directly-into-microsoft-excel","description":"

\n \"Abaxx <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

LONDON, 9th February, 2026  \u2014  Abaxx Technologies Inc<\/a>. (CBOE:ABXX)(OTCQX:ABXXF) (\"Abaxx\" or the \"Company\"), a financial software and market infrastructure company, majority shareholder of Abaxx Singapore Pte Ltd., the owner of Abaxx Commodity Exchange and Clearinghouse (individually, \u201cAbaxx Exchange\u201d and \u201cAbaxx Clearing\u201d), and producer of the SmarterMarkets\u2122 Podcast, today announced that Abaxx Exchange has partnered with ipushpull to deliver exchange market data directly into the workflows trading firms already use through Microsoft Excel.<\/p>","category":"Press releases","pubDate":"Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:30:06 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/abaxx-exchange-partners-with-ipushpull-to-deliver-real-time-market-data-directly-into-microsoft-excel"},{"title":"Why Daily Credit Optimisation Is Now Essential in Highly Volatile Energy Markets","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/why-daily-credit-optimisation-is-now-essential-in-highly-volatile-energy-markets","description":"

\n \"Why <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

Over the past 15 years, I have worked in senior credit risk roles across global commodities and energy trading companies. During that time, credit risk management has evolved steadily, but since 2022, the change has been structural rather than incremental. Volatility, liquidity pressure and higher funding costs have fundamentally altered the role credit plays in energy trading.<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:25:51 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/why-daily-credit-optimisation-is-now-essential-in-highly-volatile-energy-markets"},{"title":"2025: The Year Chat Data Became a Strategic Asset","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/2025-the-year-chat-data-became-a-strategic-asset","description":"

\n \"2025: <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

In our 2024 round-up<\/a>, we argued that the most valuable information on a trading desk sits inside chat but has never been fully utilised as an asset. It moved fast, vanished quickly and could not be extracted easily or governed well enough to drive automation. Firms knew the value was there, but had no reliable way to do anything useful with it.<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:43:16 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/2025-the-year-chat-data-became-a-strategic-asset"},{"title":"Ultumus and ipushpull partner to deliver ETF & index data directly into Microsoft Excel","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ultumus-and-ipushpull-partner-to-deliver-etf-and-index-data-directly-into-microsoft-excel","description":"

\n \"Ultumus <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

LONDON, 2nd December, 2025: <\/strong>Ultumus, a leader in ETF and index data, calculation and workflow solutions, and ipushpull, a leader in data delivery for real-time, governed access, have formed a partnership to stream clean, permissioned reference data directly into the workflows investment teams already use, starting with Microsoft Excel.<\/span><\/p>","category":"Press releases","pubDate":"Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:51:54 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ultumus-and-ipushpull-partner-to-deliver-etf-and-index-data-directly-into-microsoft-excel"},{"title":"Turning Conversations into Trades: How RFQs Inside Chat Are Changing Buy-Side Workflows","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/turning-conversations-into-trades-how-rfqs-inside-chat-are-changing-buy-side-workflows","description":"

\n \"Turning <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

RFQs in chat get lost. Traders negotiate, agree and move on, but the information never leaves the conversation.<\/p> \n

Quote Hub can help. Working from inside the customer's own chat, it captures, structures and records every RFQ, along with the responses, directly from chat, preserving the human conversation while enabling automation, control and auditability.<\/p> \n

Traditional RFQ workflows inside chat can be limited by how many dealers a trader can talk to. As volumes rise and market conditions tighten, buy-side desks cannot afford to lose information from not being able to talk to the whole market. Having to record, understand and reply to each response manually risks the manual model breaking down under pressure.<\/p> \n

Quote Hub addresses this without forcing traders to change behaviour. It fits into existing buy-side workflows, turning every RFQ and response into a structured data record that can be used by the trader in decision-making and in market analytics later.<\/p>","pubDate":"Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:15:36 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/turning-conversations-into-trades-how-rfqs-inside-chat-are-changing-buy-side-workflows"},{"title":"The Evolution of Electronification in Fixed Income: A Conversation with UBS\u2019s Deniz Mace-Jones","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/the-evolution-of-electronification-in-fixed-income-a-conversation-with-ubss-deniz-mace-jones","description":"

\n \"The <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

Over the past decade, fixed income markets have undergone a fundamental shift. What was once dominated by voice trading, spreadsheets, and manual booking is now increasingly digital, data-driven, and automated. To understand where we are and where we\u2019re heading, I sat down with Deniz Mace-Jones, Global Head of Rates and Credit Products and Electronic Distribution at UBS, for a candid discussion on the realities of electronification, workflow transformation, and the role of AI in the next phase of market evolution.<\/p>","pubDate":"Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:56:45 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/the-evolution-of-electronification-in-fixed-income-a-conversation-with-ubss-deniz-mace-jones"},{"title":"Fixed Income Leaders Summit 2025: Chat-driven Automation \u2013 The Real Front-Office Revolution","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/fixed-income-leaders-summit-2025-chat-driven-automation-the-real-front-office-revolution","description":"

\n \"Fixed <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

The conversations in Amsterdam this year cut through the noise. Forget the hype around LLMs, headline AI projects, and generic automation slogans. The real transformation in fixed income is happening where nobody was looking, in chat.<\/p>","pubDate":"Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:26:44 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/fixed-income-leaders-summit-2025-chat-driven-automation-the-real-front-office-revolution"},{"title":"Why AI-Powered Front-Office Integration in FICC Matters","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/why-ai-powered-front-office-integration-in-fixed-income-matters","description":"

\n \"Why <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

The Fragmentation Problem <\/h3> \n

Traditional front-to-back office workflows in financial markets often involve manual processes that are inefficient, time-consuming, labour-intensive, and not scalable. Financial institutions work across multiple asset classes (equities, fixed income, derivatives, FX, etc.), each often siloed with its own systems, data formats, and communication channels. This fragmentation creates operational risks, delayed decision-making, and limits the ability to share valuable live data that could provide competitive advantages.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>","pubDate":"Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:47:21 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/why-ai-powered-front-office-integration-in-fixed-income-matters"},{"title":"Latest Media Coverage Featuring ipushpull","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ipushpull-in-the-news","description":"

\n \"Latest <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

ipushpull is increasingly being recognised across financial and technology media for our work in real-time data sharing, automation, and chat-based workflows. This page collects a selection of recent press coverage and analysis featuring ipushpull, from interviews and product launches to industry insights.<\/p> \n

We\u2019ll continue to update this page as new coverage appears, providing short summaries and direct links to the original articles for context and further reading.<\/p>","category":"Press releases","pubDate":"Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:19:53 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ipushpull-in-the-news"},{"title":"Helping You Visualise the Market with ipushpull Quote Hub","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/helping-you-visualise-the-market-with-ipushpull-quote-hub","description":"

\n \"Helping <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

In over-the-counter (OTC) markets, one problem comes up again and again: desks don\u2019t have a clear, consolidated view of where prices actually are. Quotes are scattered across fragmented chats, calls and spreadsheets, leaving teams to make educated guesses and clients or counterparties waiting longer than they should. The result is slower response times, inconsistent information and an increased risk of missed opportunities.<\/p>","pubDate":"Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:18:14 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/helping-you-visualise-the-market-with-ipushpull-quote-hub"},{"title":"ipushpull launches LLM-enabled agent to automate physical gas trade booking via chat","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ipushpull-launches-llm-enabled-agent-to-automate-physical-gas-trade-booking-via-chat","description":"

\n \"ipushpull <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

LONDON, 18th September, 2025:<\/strong> ipushpull<\/span>,<\/span> a leading platform transforming enterprise chat and message data into strategic assets,<\/span> launches <\/span>T<\/span>rade <\/span>C<\/span>apture<\/span> & Booki<\/span>ng<\/span> for <\/span>streamlin<\/span>ing<\/span> the trad<\/span>e<\/span> booking <\/span>process for <\/span>North American <\/span>natural gas<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>","category":"Press releases","pubDate":"Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:33:26 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ipushpull-launches-llm-enabled-agent-to-automate-physical-gas-trade-booking-via-chat"},{"title":"ipushpull Trade Capture and Booking: From Chat to Booked Trade in\u00a0Near Real-time","link":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ipushpull-trade-capture-and-booking-from-chat-to-booked-trade-in-near-real-time","description":"

\n \"ipushpull <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

Traders & brokers spend much of every day in chat because that is where markets move. Trade tickets live somewhere else. The distance between those two worlds wastes time, invites errors and threatens the five or fifteen-minute MiFID II reporting clock. ipushpull Trade Capture and Booking removes that distance by turning each deal typed in chat into a validated, booked and reported trade within seconds.<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:36:36 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/ipushpull.com\/blog\/ipushpull-trade-capture-and-booking-from-chat-to-booked-trade-in-near-real-time"}]}}