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Movers and shakers: Futurice E40 names leaders riding the wave in EV’s toughest market yet

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Report shows surge in homegrown innovation, from EV icons to new arrivals

LONDON, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Digital transformation consultancy Futurice UK today unveils its annual E40 report, spotlighting the most innovative EV players flexing their capabilities against a turbulent commercial backdrop. With a global pricing war, slowing sales and fierce competition from China – the world’s biggest EV market – creating the toughest conditions yet, the industry is facing “a broader reckoning” in the race to net-zero mobility. The fourth edition of the E40 zeroes in on the people and brands responding to these pressures, examining global trends from a UK perspective.

“We’re entering a new, more challenging phase in EV adoption which is pushing the industry to fresh heights in terms of innovation, partnerships and boundary-stretching ideas,” says David Mitchell, Co-Managing Director at Futurice UK. “This year’s E40 entrants are rising to the challenge, particularly in the UK, where startups are experimenting with everything from vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech to new battery technology and hydrogen-electric powertrains.

“At the same time, manufacturers are bearing the brunt of the government’s recent decision to delay the UK ban on new diesel and petrol cars to 2035,” he continues. “With a knock-on effect on demand – consumer uptake of new EVs fell by over 21% in April – OEMs must nevertheless continue to comply with the ZEV mandate of 22% electric car sales. It’s a complex situation which our E40 stars are battling to navigate; using a software-first mindset to solve the dilemma of e-mobility that’s both affordable and accessible.”

From heavyweight OEMs to aviation pioneers and community energy startups, this year’s E40 ranks the runners and riders shaping tomorrow’s electric world using four key metrics:

Ambition & Potential – level of commitment to driving the mobility energy transitionImpact – scale of impact delivered to dateInnovation – ability to create new ideas, products and technologiesMomentum – the necessary impetus to move the business forward in a highly competitive environment

There are 12 new entrants in this year’s report: Agratas (the highest new entrant), Zenobē, Ripple Energy, Pure Electric, BMW, Munro Vehicles, Indra, Anaphite, QPT, BYD, Electric Miles and Skyports. Sixteen companies including Octopus Energy, MG, KIA, ZeroAvia and Zapmap – increased their ranking while ten companies saw their ranking fall year-on-year – signalling the turbulence the e-mobility sector is experiencing. Overall, Futurice’s own internally weighted scoring revealed that outside the top five, the entries were incredibly close.

Holding the E40 number one spot for the fourth year running, Tesla has acted boldly to ensure its dominance over the past 12 months, cutting prices on its best-selling Model Y SUV, moving ahead on plans for a Texas lithium refinery and using its new Cybertruck to rival GM and Ford in the booming pick-up sector.

In at number two, Octopus Energy is pioneering the UK’s first mass-market V2G tariff, enabling free charging for EV owners who sell energy from their car batteries back to the grid during peak hours. It’s a smart move as the likes of Tesla, BMW and Volkswagen push ahead on models capable of bidirectional charging.

In fact, V2G tech – also championed by Ev.energy (at no. 14 in the report), OVO Energy (no. 20) and new entrant, charge management platform Electric Miles (no. 39) – is a key theme in this year’s report. It could represent a watershed moment for EV mass-adoption, signalling the start of simpler and cheaper energy systems for homes.

Meanwhile, the appearance of hydro-electric aviation pioneer ZeroAvia at number five in the E40 illustrates how some of the industry’s most seismic developments are taking place beyond cars. With global airlines placing 2,000 pre-orders for its engines, ZeroAvia joins Bristol-based air taxi startup, Vertical Aerospace (no. 29), and landing infrastructure platform Skyports (no. 40), in breaking ground for the future of electric aviation in the UK.

Homegrown innovation is a trend across many of the E40’s new entrants this year, including battery storage company Zenobē (no. 15), whose debut site can store enough wind energy to power 130,000 homes for two hours, community wind farm trailblazer Ripple Energy (no. 18), and vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional charging expert Indra (no. 31). Indra is currently leading a large-scale V2H trial with hundreds of UK participants.

Tata-owned Agratas, the report’s highest-ranking newcomer at number 11, underlines the importance of overseas investment in the UK’s e-mobility scene. Agratas’ debut on the battery scene via a £4bn Somerset gigafactory, has the capacity to produce 40GWh of cells annually and to create 4,000 green tech jobs.

David Mitchell says: “This year’s E40 proves the adage that adversity brings opportunity. With the EV ecosystem facing new threats – not least from China – we’re seeing some truly radical ideas emerge. Research projects involving community charging, circular energy and the broader urban mobility scene are building momentum. But, with the global market growing ever more diverse and competitive, there’s zero room for complacency. The UK must work hard to build on its hard-won reputation for EV innovation, at a point where there is everything to play for.”

To download and read the new E40 report, with trends insight from David Mitchell, Imogen Bhogal, presenter at Fully Charged, and Steve Catlin, managing director of Volvo Cars Financial Services, follow this link.

Futurice is a digital transformation consultancy, helping clients to solve their biggest challenges and empowering them to make a positive impact on the world.

We design, develop and scale digital products and services across many industries. Our goal is to deliver measurable, sustainable outcomes through close and business-focused collaboration with our clients. Over the last few years, we’ve helped major automotive, mobility and logistics clients reach the forefront of the data and digital transformation that underpins the new electric ecosystem.

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dxFeed Introduces ZeroDTE to Bring Greater Transparency to 0DTE Trading Risk

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NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — dxFeed, a global provider of market data and financial technology solutions, introduced dxFeed ZeroDTE, a new quantitative analytics solution designed to bring greater transparency and precision to the rapidly growing market for zero-days-to-expiration (0DTE) options.

Developed by dxFeed’s AI & Quant Research team, the solution transforms live SPX and XSP options data into comprehensive pricing and risk analytics, enabling brokers, trading platforms, and analytics providers to give traders a clearer understanding of potential outcomes before entering a trade.

The introduction comes as 0DTE options continue to reshape US derivatives markets. According to Cboe, same-day contracts accounted for approximately 65%* of SPX options trading volume in Q3 2026, averaging a record 3.2 million contracts daily. Yet the analytical tools available to traders have not always kept pace with this growth, particularly when it comes to understanding the risks behind complex, multi-leg strategies — a challenge previously highlighted by Jon Light, Senior Director of Product Management, Devexperts.

Beyond Probability of Profit: Understanding the Full Risk
While conventional trading interfaces typically display strikes, premiums, and margin requirements, ZeroDTE reveals the market-implied probabilities behind each strategy, including the likelihood of retaining the full premium, experiencing a partial loss, or reaching the maximum possible loss.

Unlike traditional probability calculations based on a single implied volatility estimate or delta, the solution analyzes the entire live options chain, incorporating the volatility smile and distribution tails to deliver a consistent view of market-implied outcomes.

Through a single API integration, platforms can provide traders with:

Market-implied probabilities of different profit and loss outcomes.Fair value comparisons against displayed market prices.Maximum profit, maximum loss, and break-even levels for individual strategies.Market-implied distribution of today’s close, derived from live options data.Strategies defined in units of the day’s priced move, so the same structure can be compared across days and market conditions .

Supporting popular structures including iron condors, butterflies, straddles, strangles, and vertical spreads, the service brings sophisticated quantitative analytics directly into the trading experience.

“Retail platforms are good at showing a probability of profit, and most will show the maximum loss as well. What they don’t show is how likely that loss is,” said Anton Antonov, Head of AI & Quant Research at dxFeed. “ZeroDTE puts the odds next to the worst case: the chance of keeping the credit, of a partial loss and of the maximum loss, read from the whole option chain rather than a single volatility number. Rather than predicting where the market will go, we give traders the tools to understand what current options prices imply, evaluate different strategies consistently, and make more informed decisions.”

Expanding dxFeed’s Intelligent Market Data Ecosystem
ZeroDTE marks another milestone in dxFeed’s evolution from market data delivery toward advanced analytics, quantitative research, and intelligent financial technology.

The solution joins dxFeed’s growing portfolio of innovative technologies, including SummerFox, its award-winning AI-powered market intelligence solution; Grenadier, an AI-based market data anomaly detection technology; and dxScript, an AI-assisted scripting environment for custom market analytics and indicators.

Together, these solutions reinforce dxFeed’s commitment to transforming high-quality financial data into accessible, actionable intelligence for the global trading community.

The new analytics capabilities have already been integrated into DXcharts, demonstrating how advanced options risk metrics can be incorporated directly into trading and charting interfaces.

For a deeper look at the technical capabilities, key features, and practical applications of ZeroDTE, explore our in-depth article.

*All figures are market-implied from current option prices and are not a forecast or a recommendation

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One Third of Florida’s Banks and Credit Unions Not Yet Protected Against Future Quantum Decryption, Open-Source Scan Finds

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Manteiga Foundation publishes a state-of-readiness note on 81 Florida institutions: nothing is broken today, the risk is time, and for most the fix is one setting

MIAMI, Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Of 81 Florida-headquartered banks and credit unions, 54 already protect their customers’ connections against future quantum decryption and 27 do not yet, according to a state-of-readiness note published today by Manteiga Foundation, a Florida public benefit company. The note, the first from the foundation’s Quantum Ready Labs, lists every institution and its result: quantumreadylabs.com/studies/florida-financial-2026q4.

Nothing is broken today. No account, login or transaction is at risk from what the note describes; every connection tested is encrypted with algorithms no existing computer can break.

The risk is time. Encrypted traffic can be recorded now and decrypted once a large enough quantum computer exists, so anything that must stay confidential for years is already inside the window. That window is narrowing: in 2025 the estimated size of the machine needed to break today’s key exchange fell from about twenty million qubits to under one million, and NIST has set 2030 to begin retiring today’s key exchange and 2035 to end it. Browsers already protect traffic the new way.

The fix is small. The 27 split in two. Ten are Exposed, their sites still on a protocol generation that cannot carry post-quantum protection; the next step is to enable TLS 1.3. Seventeen are At risk, on a modern protocol with the protection not switched on; the next step is one setting, the post-quantum key exchange (X25519MLKEM768), a configuration line or a toggle on current servers. The 54 are Protected (30) or Ready (24). The median score is 85 of 100; the note uses four plain words, no letter grades.

“Nothing is broken today, and that is exactly why this is the moment to act,” said Jaime Manteiga, Co-Founder of Manteiga Foundation. “Confidentiality is the urgent part of the quantum transition, the fix is small, and most of these institutions are one setting away. We built the scanner so that anyone can see where a host stands in a second and what to do next.”

Quantum Ready Labs is free and open source under the MIT licence. Typing a host name at quantumreadylabs.com opens a handful of connections to it, as a browser visit would, and returns the stage, a score for quantum readiness alone, the one next step and the standards cited (NIST IR 8547, FIPS 203, CNSA 2.0), shareable by link or as a five-page PDF; an open API runs the same test for services.

Each institution’s public primary domain was tested on October 18, 2026 with fourteen TLS handshakes and one ordinary connection; no page was opened, no login attempted. Every Exposed result was cross-checked with OpenSSL and curl. The population, from public regulator lists with each domain verified, will be re-scanned quarterly; any institution can run a fresh test at once.

For organizations that want help making the change, the foundation operates N30.ai, its cybersecurity consulting practice. The scanner and its results stay free and open.

About Manteiga Foundation

Manteiga Foundation is a Florida public benefit company at the meeting of technology and art, bringing more beauty into technology through open-source tools for the public good, among them Quantum Ready Labs and medet.ink. manteiga.org.

About N30.ai

N30.ai is Manteiga Foundation’s cybersecurity consulting practice for the post-quantum transition and related security work. More at n30.ai.

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CME Group Announces First Trade for Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap Futures

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CHICAGO, Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CME Group, the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that FalconX and GSR have executed the first block trade in its new Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Uniswap (UNI) futures.

“With trading now underway in our Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures, we are providing clients with more versatility to manage cryptocurrency risk and exposure through our robust 24/7 marketplace,” said Giovanni Vicioso, Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products at CME Group. “As institutional demand for digital assets continues to grow, we are pleased that investors are turning to CME Group to expand their crypto trading strategies with our regulated and capital-efficient tools.”

“FalconX is pleased to execute the first block trade in CME Group’s new Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures alongside GSR. Institutional demand is moving beyond the largest digital assets toward tokens with distinct use cases, like Bitcoin Cash in payments and Uniswap in decentralized finance,” said Griffin Sears, Head of Derivatives, FalconX. “Bringing these assets onto a regulated venue like CME Group gives institutions the hedging and capital-efficient exposure they’ve been asking for, and we look forward to supporting liquidity in these markets as they grow.”

“Providing liquidity in crypto derivatives has long been a cornerstone of GSR’s business, making it a natural fit for us to support CME Group’s new Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures from day one,” said Xin Song, CEO of GSR. “We have long believed that expanding institutional-grade derivatives will supercharge institutional adoption of digital assets, and CME Group plays a central role in making that vision a reality.”

The new contracts further extend CME Group’s single-asset cryptocurrency product suite, which includes Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana, Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche‌ and Sui futures. Trading highlights include:

Year-to-date 2026 futures and options average daily volume (ADV) of more than 242,000 contracts ($7.9 billion notional) and average daily open interest (OI) of almost 240,000 contracts ($14.3 billion notional).Nearly $2 billion in year-to-date notional value growth from the 2026 expansion into Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche, and Sui futures.

Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures are listed on and subject to the rules of CME. For more information on these products, please visit here.

As the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, energy, agricultural products and metals.  The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform.  In addition, it operates one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. 

CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex, and E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.  CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc.  NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc.  COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec is a trademark of BrokerTec Americas LLC and EBS is a trademark of EBS Group LTD. The S&P 500 Index is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (“S&P DJI”). “S&P®”, “S&P 500®”, “SPY®”, “SPX®”, US 500 and The 500 are trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC; Dow Jones®, DJIA® and Dow Jones Industrial Average are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. These trademarks have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Futures contracts based on the S&P 500 Index are not sponsored, endorsed, marketed, or promoted by S&P DJI, and S&P DJI makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in such products. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 

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