LONDON, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bloomberg today launched its FX Options RFQ API on FXGO, its award-winning electronic foreign exchange trading solution. FXGO is part of Bloomberg Electronic Markets, and the introduction of this new offering brings end-to-end programmatic RFQ trading to the buy-side FX options market for the first time.

Building on the popularity of FXGO’s recently released Python-API FX Options ticket launcher, buy-side traders can now run the entire RFQ workflow programmatically, from submitting a trade request and receiving competing dealer quotes, to completing the deal, with no manual steps required at any stage.

The launch covers vanilla and exotic FX options strategies across deliverable and non-deliverable currency markets and connects clients to FXGO’s multi-dealer pool of liquidity providers through a single API.

Bloomberg introduced its FX Options RFQ API to meet increased demand from systematic hedge funds and asset managers seeking to extend programmatic execution support into derivatives; Bloomberg recorded more than 58% year-on-year growth since August 2025 in FX options volumes on FXGO, with hedge fund activity up more than 75%.

“We’ve seen rising demand across hedge fund clients on FXGO, and systematic firms are increasingly pushing into FX options, demanding the same end-to-end RFQ automation they have elsewhere in their workflow,” commented Kat Furber, Bloomberg’s Global Head FX Trading (FXGO) at Bloomberg. “The FX Options RFQ API is FXGO meeting that demand, giving buy-side firms complete programmatic execution support across the entire trade lifecycle, backed by the full depth of our global liquidity.”

Bloomberg’s FXGO is the premier multi-bank FX trading solution providing access to deep liquidity through real-time pricing, powerful workflow solutions and sophisticated analytics for price takers across the globe to negotiate FX transactions with their bank relationships. FXGO provides streaming or RFQ for spot, outrights, swaps, NDFs, deposits, precious metals and options across a multitude of currency pairs and tenors, along with access to algorithmic order solutions offered by more than 30 top providers. FXGO also integrates with multiple third-party order management, treasury management and accounting systems and facilitates straight-through processing (STP) in a variety of flexible formats, creating a seamless and efficient investment workflow.

About Bloomberg Electronic Markets
Bloomberg’s Electronic Markets solutions are used by leading financial institutions to trade efficiently in over 175 markets around the world. More than 9,000 client firms use Bloomberg Electronic Markets to access industry-leading depth and breadth of liquidity across asset classes from over 800 dealers globally. Bloomberg Electronic Markets provides market participants with comprehensive solutions across the trading lifecycle, including robust price transparency, analytics, automation and execution, powered by Bloomberg’s high-quality, multi-asset class data and tools.

FX options are traded via the multilateral trading facilities (BMTF & BTFE) offered by Bloomberg Trading Facility Limited and Bloomberg Trading Facility BV and via the market (BTBS) operated by Bloomberg Tradebook Singapore Pte Ltd.

About Bloomberg
Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to markets. The company helps connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions that enable our customers to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration.

For more information, visit Bloomberg.com/company or request a demo.

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Strategic integration, through Trade Innovation Nexus, to streamline digital trade finance for banks and corporates

LONDON, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Finastra today announced a partnership with Komgo, a leading digital trade finance platform provider, to help banks and corporates overcome inefficiencies caused by fragmented trade systems and manual, data-intensive processes. Together, the companies will streamline end-to-end digital trade finance workflows and improve connectivity across trade ecosystems, enabling scalable growth.

The partnership will leverage Trade Innovation Nexus, Finastra’s open API integration layer, to connect Komgo’s Konsole digital trade finance platform with Finastra’s Trade Innovation. The solutions will together enable a more connected trade finance experience for customers, reducing manual effort, improving interoperability, and enhancing visibility across the trade ecosystem without disrupting existing bank infrastructures.

Key benefits of the Finastra and Komgo partnership for Banks and their corporate clients

Faster, more efficient processing: Reduces transaction times, onboarding and manual exceptions through integrated, automated workflows.Enhanced transparency and trust: Replaces intensive processes with auditable, straight-through processing (STP) via digital workflows that improve visibility and foster greater confidence for all participants.Stronger compliance and security: Incorporates built-in regulatory checks and advanced security features for simplified compliance, reporting and audit readiness.Advanced risk management: Provides institutions with comprehensive tools for assessing and mitigating risks, empowering better-informed decisions.

Expert opinion

“Finastra’s global presence, open platform approach and strong commitment to innovation in trade finance made it a natural partner for us,” said Baptiste Audren, Chief Revenue Officer at Komgo. “Digital trade continues to make global commerce more accessible and efficient, but progress often comes with added complexity. This is exactly where technology can help. By connecting Komgo’s trusted, multi-bank digital trade finance infrastructure with Finastra’s Trade Innovation, we are bringing our proven digital trade capabilities to a broader base of banks and corporates through Finastra’s extensive client base, while giving Finastra’s customers direct access to the industry’s most widely adopted trade finance network.”

Vinay Mendonca, Head of Trade & Supply Chain Finance and Digital Channels at Finastra, said: “This partnership reflects our shared commitment to helping Financial Institutions modernize trade finance through open, connected technologies. By combining Finastra’s deep trade finance capabilities with Komgo’s digital trade services through our Nexus API integration layer, we are enabling customers to reduce complexity, increase transparency and provide more streamlined trade finance experiences.”

Through open integration and interoperable workflows, Finastra and Komgo are supporting financial institutions to accelerate digital trade transformation and deliver more efficient, agile services to their corporate customers.

To learn more visit: Finastra’s Trade Innovation solution | Finastra.
Visit Finastra at Sibos 2026 on booth: H015.
Visit Komgo at Sibos 2026 on booth: I038.

About Finastra

Finastra is a global leader in financial services software, trusted by thousands of customers – including many of the world’s top banks – in over 100 countries. Backed by Vista Equity Partners, we partner with financial institutions to deliver modern, reliable technology that helps them adapt, grow, and serve their customers with confidence. Visit www.finastra.com or follow on LinkedIn.

About Komgo

Komgo is a global fintech leader in trade finance digitalization. Its secure, multi-bank platform connects corporates and financial institutions worldwide, enabling the digital management of trade instruments such as guarantees, standby LCs, and documentary credits. Headquartered in Geneva with offices across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, Komgo is trusted by over 400 clients to securely manage, connect, and automate trade finance. Visit www.komgo.io or follow on LinkedIn.

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The exhibition follows Leica award-winning photographer Jing Huang as he documents young Suzhou kesi artist and custodian Hao Naiqiang (Jingwei), exploring how photography and storage preserve real craft, real presence and memories that cannot be recreated.

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — This September, Lexar and Leica are presenting Threads of Time: A Journey Through Silk and Lens at Leica Gallery Amsterdam, a photography exhibition documenting Suzhou kesi, a traditional Chinese silk weaving craft known for its highly detailed handmade process.

The project follows Jing Huang, a Leica award-winning photographer, as he documents the working process of Hao Naiqiang (known as Jingwei), a young kesi artist and custodian of Suzhou kesi craftsmanship. Through Huang’s lens, the exhibition captures the people, tools, textures, gestures and quiet discipline behind kesi, presenting it not simply as a heritage object, but as a living process shaped by hands, time and patience.

A Living Craft Shaped by Time

Suzhou kesi is one of the most intricate forms of traditional Chinese silk weaving. Unlike printed or embroidered textiles, kesi is created through a slow handmade weaving process in which the artisan works thread by thread to form delicate patterns, colours and textures. Each piece requires patience, precision and deep familiarity with the material.

For Jingwei, kesi is not only a technique, but a way of continuing cultural memory through daily practice. The craft exists not only in the completed silk artwork, but also in the repeated hand movements, tools, decisions and concentration that happen before the final piece is complete.

“What moves me most about kesi is its restraint,” said Jingwei, kesi artist. “It is not a free gesture. It is created within the order of warp and weft, built slowly through time, patience and the experience of the hand.”

Through Threads of Time, kesi is presented as a craft where time becomes visible — in the tension of silk threads, the rhythm of the hands, the relationship between the artisan and the material, and the quiet discipline embedded in each woven detail.

Photography as a Way of Seeing

To document Jingwei’s practice, Lexar and Leica invited Jing Huang, a photographer whose visual language is deeply influenced by painting, particularly Chinese ink painting and small-format compositions. Rather than approaching kesi as a straightforward documentary subject, Huang looks for stillness, restraint, balance and negative space within the craft.

His photography is less about explaining a heritage object and more about shaping a visual experience. Through his lens, the tools, threads, hands and studio details become part of a larger study of form, texture and time.

“For me, photography is not only about recording time,” said Jing Huang. “Sometimes it is about forgetting time. What stays in an image is not simply when or where it was taken, but whether it carries a sense of beauty that can still be felt beyond that moment.”

At a time when images can be generated instantly, this kind of photographic practice carries renewed meaning. It is not only about producing an image, but about being present with a real person, a real craft and a real moment. Through Huang’s photographs, Suzhou kesi is not imagined or recreated. It is observed, experienced and preserved as part of a visual record.

A Dialogue Between the Photographer’s Eye and the Artisan’s Hand

Presented at Leica Gallery Amsterdam, the exhibition brings together traditional craft, contemporary photography and the question of how visual memory travels across cultures.

“What makes this project meaningful is the dialogue between the photographer’s eye and the artisan’s hand,” said Linda Warmerdam, Manager and Curator, Leica Gallery Amsterdam. “Through photography, audiences can encounter Suzhou kesi not only as a heritage object, but as a living process shaped by time, patience and human presence.”

By placing kesi within a photography gallery context, Threads of Time invites audiences to look beyond the final artwork and spend time with the process behind it: the movements, materials and moments that are often invisible once a work is complete.

Why Lexar Is Part of This Story

Lexar’s role in the project begins with a simple idea: before a photograph becomes an exhibition print, a film still, a press image or a cultural archive, it first exists as an original file that needs to be safely preserved.

As a brand trusted by photographers, videographers and creators, Lexar has long supported the creative workflow from capture to archive. In Threads of Time, that role becomes part of a broader story about memory. Leica helps capture what is truly seen. Lexar helps preserve the original record behind it.

“Before an image becomes an exhibition print, a film still or a cultural archive, it first exists as an original file that needs to be protected,” said Grace Su, General Manager of Europe at Lexar. “Through this project, Lexar and Leica are exploring how real craft, real photography and reliable storage can work together to preserve moments that cannot be recreated.”

For Lexar, this project is not about defining the meaning of heritage, but about returning to the brand’s core purpose: helping people preserve moments, creations and memories that would otherwise exist only once.

Why It Matters to Consumers

The story of kesi may begin with a traditional craft, but its meaning extends beyond heritage. Not everyone creates a cultural artwork, but everyone has moments they do not want to lose — a family memory, a creative project, a journey, a milestone or a piece of work that exists only once.

In an age where images can be generated faster than ever, the value of a real captured moment becomes more important. A generated image can look similar, but it cannot replace the experience of being there. It cannot replace the person, the time, the emotion or the memory behind the image.

This is where the role of photography and storage becomes meaningful. Photography bears witness to what was truly seen. Storage protects the original record that allows people to return to it.

In this sense, Threads of Time is not only an exhibition about silk weaving. It is also a reflection on what photography and storage can still do uniquely well: preserve presence, carry memory and give real moments a future beyond the moment itself.

Exhibition Information

Exhibition: Threads of Time: A Journey Through Silk and Lens
Presented by: Lexar × Leica
Location: Leica Gallery Amsterdam
Opening Date: September 11, 2026
Featured Photographer: Jing Huang
Featured Kesi Artist: Hao Naiqiang (Jingwei)         
Featured Craft: Suzhou kesi, traditional Chinese silk weaving craft

Guests have access to exhibition visuals, insights into Jing Huang’s shooting process, and opportunities to connect with the project team, including Lexar, Leica and kesi artist Jingwei.

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