Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology

This year’s event will focus on The AI Frontier: Buy and Build Strategies for Capital Markets, exploring how AI is shaping buy and build implementations across the trading technology stack.

The summit will provide practical insight into how financial institutions and technology partners can collaborate to modernise and innovate trading technology platforms. As firms increasingly integrate AI and move away from monolithic legacy systems towards modern, component-based architectures, strong partnerships and collaboration will become critical to long-term success.

Attendees will hear real-world case studies from across the trading technology ecosystem, gaining valuable insight into best practice approaches, critical success factors, and the common pitfalls firms should avoid when implementing buy and build strategies.

Topics for 2026 include:

• How AI is reshaping capital markets and driving the evolution of buy and build strategies
• Moving from monolithic systems to modular, composable trading architectures
• Reimagining the trading experience and the future of the OMS
• The connectivity revolution, including APIs, FIX, MCP, and agent interoperability
• Low-latency AI infrastructure and building performance at the edge
• Data as the foundation for AI, including clean data layers, real-time retrieval, and structured and unstructured data integration
• Engineering productivity and lessons learned from using AI to build software at scale
• Governance, transparency, standards, compliance, and trust in AI-driven trading environments

If you work within a front-office trading technology team, this event will provide valuable insight into how these trends are shaping workflows, performance, and investment decisions across capital markets technology.

Please note: this event will operate under Chatham House Rules.