AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE, and LONDON, UK, 12 November 2026 – smartTrade Technologies SAS (smartTrade), a global leader in multi-asset electronic trading and payments solutions, today announced that it has acquired Celoxica, a specialist provider of ultra-low latency execution infrastructure for listed Equities, Futures, Fixed Income, and Options. Celoxica is now part of the smartTrade Group.
Celoxica delivers ultra-low latency trading services, through software and hardware-accelerated engineering, across 80+ venues worldwide. Its fully managed service is trusted by to banks, prime brokers, hedge funds, and quantitative trading firms. The acquisition complements smartTrade’s existing ultra-low latency solutions and services and extends the Group’s coverage from OTC to listed markets, and from orchestration and pricing to execution infrastructure.
Strategic Rationale: Complementary Layers of the Trading Stack
smartTrade and Celoxica lead at complementary layers of the front-office stack. smartTrade leads at the workflow orchestration, pricing, and distribution layer across Trading (LiquidityFX), FX Derivatives (kACE), and Payments (Commercial Banking & Payments). Celoxica leads at the risk and execution infrastructure layer, where its feed handlers, market access gateways, and order execution engines deliver deterministic, microsecond-to-nanosecond execution with in-line pre-trade risk. Together, the Group covers more of the trading stack than either company could alone.
The transaction also extends the Group’s reach into new client segments across the sell side and buy side, and into additional asset classes. It opens Celoxica’s technology to smartTrade’s 250+ clients worldwide, supported by offices, sales, support, and engineering teams across EMEA, the Americas, and APAC.
David Vincent, CEO & Co-Founder of smartTrade, said: “This transaction expands smartTrade’s ecosystem of global, multi-asset trading and payments solutions to include Celoxica’s specialised ultra-low latency execution infrastructure, under the vision of being the electronic trading and payments technology partner of choice for customers. We have always believed that the value we bring to our clients comes from the coherence of the whole, not from any single product. Celoxica has built, with great rigour, a technology that the most demanding institutions in the market rely upon every day, and it sits precisely at the layer of the stack where we wished to grow. We are convinced that, together, we offer our clients something much more valuable than either of us could offer alone.”
A Growing Ecosystem of Complementary Solutions
The acquisition builds on smartTrade’s previous successful acquisitions, each of which has developed and expanded the Group’s ecosystem of products. Jean-Marc Bouhelier, General Manager of Celoxica, continues to lead the business and joins the smartTrade Executive Committee. Celoxica’s client relationships, contracts, support, and day-to-day service remain unchanged.
The result is an ecosystem of interconnected solutions and services for financial institutions seeking to monetise their flows, reduce risk, and grow market share – now spanning both OTC and listed markets. Celoxica clients will have the opportunity to benefit from smartTrade’s multi-asset trading and payments solutions, including connectivity, aggregation, distribution, OMS, and analytics, together with the Group’s significant AI capabilities. smartTrade clients will have access to Celoxica’s listed-markets connectivity, deep ultra-low latency capabilities, and pre-trade risk technology, complementing smartTrade’s existing solutions.
Jean-Marc Bouhelier, General Manager of Celoxica, said: “We have joined the smartTrade Group because we share the same view of how this business works: our clients buy a service, not just a product, and they want technology partners who adapt to their priorities. Our team, our leadership, and our way of working with clients remain unchanged. What changes is our reach – smartTrade’s global distribution and its investment in engineering and AI will give our clients access to a larger global platform, which complements the specialist service they rely on today.”
About smartTrade Group
smartTrade Technologies provides AI-driven, multi-asset trading and payments technology to financial institutions. Headquartered in France, smartTrade serves more than 250 clients from 12 offices worldwide, covering FX, Precious Metals, Money Markets, Fixed Income, Digital Assets, and Derivatives via secure SaaS.
Its ecosystem comprises Trading (LiquidityFX and smartFI), for ultra-low latency connectivity, aggregation, pricing, distribution, and OMS, with AlgoBox for proprietary business logic; Payments (Commercial Banking & Payments), uniting FX and cross-border payments; FX Derivatives (kACE), for derivatives pricing, analytics, and risk; and smartTrade Flow, for post-trade processing. Each runs standalone or within the ecosystem.
The smartTrade Agentic Copilot (STAC) embeds human-in-the-loop agentic AI across the smartTrade product range.
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About Celoxica
Celoxica is a specialist provider of ultra-low latency trading services for listed Equities, Futures, Fixed Income, and Options. Its software and hardware-accelerated feed handlers, market access gateways, and order execution engines deliver single-digit microsecond (software-based) to nanosecond (FPGA) latency with in-line pre-trade risk across 80+ trading venues globally, delivered as a fully managed service to Tier 1 prime brokers, systematic quantitative funds, and algorithmic trading desks. Celoxica is headquartered in London with offices in Paris, New York, and Sydney to support its global clients.
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