ipushpull blog

Knowing who's worth sending an RFQ to, before showing your hand

Andrew Capewell — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:33:05 GMT

A trade record only shows what was agreed: price, size, counterparty and when. It doesn't show who else responded, how fast, or who didn't answer at all. It doesn't show the prices that were better but too slow, or the ones that weren't good enough to matter. That history does exist. It's just sitting in chat, spread across every RFQ a desk has ever sent, and until now there's been no cost-efficient way to pull it out and turn it into something usable.

Every Desk Has a Retyping Problem. Trade Booking Is Just the Most Expensive One.

Andrew Capewell — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:25:12 GMT

This is a front-office automation problem: the everyday manual re-entry that follows a negotiation in chat. A trader agrees a price with a broker over chat. Then someone retypes it into another system by hand: a pricing blotter, a booking system, a lending desk's spreadsheet. The system may change, but the problem doesn't. It exists on every desk that negotiates in chat, every day.

What IOSCO's new AI supervisory toolkit means for regulated trading firms

Matthew Cheung — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:35:04 GMT

At the end of May 2026, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published its 'Supervisory Toolkit for AI and Capital Markets'. IOSCO advises regulators across the world's major capital markets, so the terms it uses tend to show up in national rulebooks and supervisory questions within a year or two.

Chat, data, AI, governance: the four pillars reshaping trading desks

Matthew Cheung — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:11:37 GMT

I recently joined David Greely on the Smarter Markets podcast for an episode called 'How to Raise Your Agent'. We covered four things that shape how I think about the next few years: chat as the interface that won, chat data as an untapped resource, AI as the tool that finally makes that resource usable, and governance as the layer that decides who gets to act on it safely.

Your RFQ responses already rank your dealers. No one's looked.

Andrew Capewell — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:05:34 GMT

Execution desks make dealer selection decisions dozens of times a day on the basis of relationship and instinct. There is no systematic record of counterparty pricing behaviour because, until recently, there was no way to build one. The data exists. It just arrives in a form that disappears the moment the conversation ends.

Six Things OTC Traders Believe About Trade Capture Automation (That Aren't True)

Andrew Capewell — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:57:41 GMT

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.

ipushpull joins AIMA, leading hedge fund association, to support governed data and AI

Steve Tassell — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:40:47 GMT

London, 20th May 2026 — ipushpull, the data sharing and workflow automation platform, has joined the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) as a member. The membership reflects ipushpull’s 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.

ipushpull certified as SOC 2 type 2 compliant

Steve Tassell — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:26:07 GMT

London, 5th May 2026 — 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.

Why Trade Capture is Still a People Problem in 2026

Andrew Capewell — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:21:13 GMT

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.

The Market is Already in Chat Messages: Turning Conversations into Data

Andrew Capewell — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:18:37 GMT

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

This blog covers the next step.

What it actually costs to build your own front-office integrations, bots and agents

Andrew Capewell — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:55:56 GMT

Your core platform is live. Your trading systems run. Then the requests start arriving.

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.

The instinct is always the same: we'll build it.

ipushpull Wins ‘Best OTC Derivatives Trading Solution’ at TradingTech Insight Awards

Steve Tassell — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:41:27 GMT

LONDON, 27th February, 2026 — ipushpull has been named Best OTC Derivatives Trading Solution 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.

Building Data Distribution That Scales, Lessons from the Market

Andrew Capewell — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:56:24 GMT

If a client needs to schedule internal development work to use your data, adoption will stall.

On paper, distribution looks easy. You expose an API. You publish documentation. You ship an Excel add-in. Job done.

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.

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 “available” product is competing with everything else on their roadmap. And it will usually lose.

Abaxx Exchange Partners with ipushpull to Deliver Real-Time Market Data Directly into Microsoft Excel

Steve Tassell — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:30:06 GMT

LONDON, 9th February, 2026 — Abaxx Technologies Inc. (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, “Abaxx Exchange” and “Abaxx Clearing”), and producer of the SmarterMarkets™ 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.

Why Daily Credit Optimisation Is Now Essential in Highly Volatile Energy Markets

Andre Montellano-Heins — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:25:51 GMT

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.

2025: The Year Chat Data Became a Strategic Asset

Andrew Capewell — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:43:16 GMT

In our 2024 round-up, 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.

Ultumus and ipushpull partner to deliver ETF & index data directly into Microsoft Excel

Steve Tassell — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:51:54 GMT

LONDON, 2nd December, 2025: 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.

Turning Conversations into Trades: How RFQs Inside Chat Are Changing Buy-Side Workflows

Andrew Capewell — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:15:36 GMT

RFQs in chat get lost. Traders negotiate, agree and move on, but the information never leaves the conversation.

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.

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.

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.

The Evolution of Electronification in Fixed Income: A Conversation with UBS’s Deniz Mace-Jones

Matthew Cheung — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:56:45 GMT

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’re 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.

Fixed Income Leaders Summit 2025: Chat-driven Automation – The Real Front-Office Revolution

Matthew Cheung — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:26:44 GMT

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.