Octaura offers dealer-led leveraged loan trading workflow. New session-based workflow brings structure to dealer-to-dealer trading alongside enhanced disclosure and price transparency Octaura, an electronic trading, data and analytics platform for syndicated loans and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), announced Sync Up, a new session-based workflow designed to facilitate dealer-to-dealer trading. Dealers can anonymously submit syndicated loan positions and discover matched contra interest across counterparties within a defined session. The first in a planned suite of dealer-led workflows from Octaura, Sync Up helps dealers manage balance sheets, source risk and tap into liquidity more efficiently. Often, dealers left with residual risk must rely on a manual, time-consuming process of bilateral conversations to identify liquidity, which may not yield trades despite the significant effort. Sync Up introduces structure to that process, helping dealers reposition inventory, execute odd lots and gain market color more efficiently. In its first two weeks, Sync Up identified more than $2 billion in potential matching opportunities, resulting in 195 dealer-to-dealer trades - demonstrating strong early adoption and demand for transparency and efficiency in interdealer trading. "A session-based workflow brings the market together at the same time, focused on a defined set of assets," said Howard Cohen, Vice President and Head of Markets at Octaura. "This transforms fragmented interest into a transparent liquidity event for dealers, rather than needing to rely on a series of separate bilateral conversations." Sync Up creates a venue for structured trading where dealers can submit eligible positions and evaluate compatible opportunities at a Session Price, powered by intraday Octaura Price X (OPX) and end-of-day Octaura Price (OP). The Session Price gives participants a shared basis for evaluating potential trades and interacting around a consistent market reference point, reflective of market dynamics. Matches are identified anonymously, trades are completed when both parties elect to proceed and counterparties are revealed only after execution. Even when a transaction does not occur, the protocol may provide timely insight into emerging demand, available liquidity and overall market sentiment. Sync Up also extends Octaura's Runs Manager functionality from simply publishing liquidity to interacting with it, allowing dealers to carry relevant instrument and size information directly into the protocol, while maintaining a familiar user interface. The workflow launches with a single daily session, with plans to expand to multiple sessions throughout the trading day, creating more opportunities for dealers to participate as market conditions evolve. "Sync Up addresses the syndicated loan market's need for a shared interaction layer that identifies compatible dealer interest," said Vitaliy Kozak, Chief Product Officer and Head of Insights at Octaura. "At the center of the workflow is the Session Price, informed by Octaura Price X and Octaura Price, which serves as the execution price when a trade is completed, allowing participants to transact against a common market reference rather than negotiating separate prices through traditional channels." Sync Up is the first in a broader roadmap of Octaura's dealer-focused protocols designed to help market participants more efficiently discover liquidity, transfer risk and prepare for increasingly electronic trading workflows. And receive exclusive articles on securities markets The 2026 Global Markets Choice Awards are here! Nominations are officially OPEN for the celebration of excellence in global capital markets trading & technology. Nominate below: https://www.jotform.com/form/260086385121150 Delaware Life Insurance Company is becoming the first insurance carrier to offer an index that contains cryptocurrency, adding the BlackRock U.S. Equity Bitcoin Balanced Risk 12% Index to its fixed index annuity (FIA) portfolio. As the digital assets industry pushes toward Franklin Templeton is expanding its tokenized fund suite, signaling growing institutional demand for blockchain-based fund infrastructure and regulated investment products moving onchain. Read the full article below: $50 billion in active ETF inflows helped fuel a record year for @BlackRock 's iShares business, as investors continue to lean into active strategies.

Octaura, an electronic trading and analytics platform for syndicated loans and collateralised loan obligations, has launched the beta version of its Octaura Insights Platform. The platform consolidates proprietary pricing data, liquidity metrics, market intelligence and analytics into a single customisable interface. The Insights business comprises the platform and data feeds including Octaura Liquidity Metrics, intraday pricing and end-of-day pricing. The platform addresses fragmented data challenges in the leveraged loan market by aggregating live trading activity, enabling users to monitor intraday dynamics and assess relative value in real time. The platform features market-level trend views and loan-level insights, with customisable dashboards designed for trading workflows. Qualified market participants can request access to the beta version through Octaura's website.