EP3 by Connamara Technologies has been nominated for Best Matching Engine for Exchanges and Electronic Trading Venues by TradingTech Insight Awards – USA 2025 from A-Team Group.
These awards recognize “excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology and data solutions.”
Also nominated in this category are Aquis Technology, GMEX and IONLIST.
Winners will be announced in June 2025.
Spotlighting Leading Innovators in Capital Markets TabbFORUM’s NOVA Awards, honors the financial industry’s ongoing commitment to technology-driven innovation and recognizes, in particular, companies that excel and stand out from the crowd.
The NOVA honors go to 40 organizations based on recent and sustained accomplishments in innovation. They range from major exchanges, market infrastructures and information networks, to high-performance technology and trading platforms, niche data providers and blockchain developers focused on institutional and capital-market applications.
While attending the International Futures Industry Conference in Boca Raton, Daniel Davis, Head of Growth at Connamara Technologies, discussed with TABB Group CEO Bruce Morris how the start-up costs to create a marketplace have fallen dramatically, as has the time it takes to get to market, for all asset classes. Dan also talks about the cloud’s role in the evolution of exchange technology.
FIA’s Boca conference always delivers, and BOCA50 was no exception. In fact, it was an unrivaled success by any measure – record-breaking attendance, extraordinary speakers, lively panels, and, not to be forgotten, Cheap Trick!
Here’s how it went for Connamara Technologies, by the numbers:
📈 5 of our most innovative exchange customers in attendance—up from 3 last year. Exciting to see the growth of EP3!
🤝 30 scheduled meetings with customers, prospective customers, regulators and interested investors.—a new record for us. Still tallying up the countless “bump-ins” that make Boca special
🏓 2nd time hosting the pickleball clinic. Some have taken to calling us the “pickleball people”, thankfully others know us for being the “default DCM technology”
🏆 The 22nd Boca for our founder, Jim Downs. That’s more than two decades of market insights, relationships, and innovation.
We’re already looking forward to Boca2026.
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LONDON – Connamara Technologies, a leading provider of exchange technology, announced that co-founder and chair Maureen C. Downs was honored with the “Trailblazer Lifetime Achievement Award (vendor)” by WatersTechnology at the Women in Technology and Data Awards in London on March 7, 2025.
This award was presented to the candidate who has “affected change within her organization and has acted as a mentor for female colleagues and women in general.”
For 30 years, Maureen has been a trailblazer in capital markets and financial technology. She has served in key leadership roles at brokerages, trading firms, trade associations, and regulatory bodies, including two terms as the first woman Chair of the National Futures Association, the self-regulatory body for the U.S. derivatives industry, from 2020-2024.
In 2022, Maureen co-founded Connamara Technologies, Inc. Under her leadership, Connamara developed and launched EP3®, an end-to-end exchange and clearing platform that is asset-agnostic, cost-accessible, and quick-to-market. EP3 is powering new exchanges and marketplaces across the globe.
Maureen was one of 125 freshman women selected for admission to a student body of over 6,000 men when the University of Notre Dame first began admitting female students. She graduated summa cum laude and 1st in the College of Business. Subsequently, she pursued careers as a Certified Public Accountant and Attorney at Law at a time when women represented only a small fraction of the professionals at most major firms. Maureen rose to prominence in the U.S. derivatives industry – an industry that, to this day, remains largely male-dominated.
Chosen from a group of accomplished women in the capital markets and financial technology industry, Maureen’s achievements are something that Connamara Technologies is proud to celebrate.
WatersTechnology is a leading information source for technology trends in capital markets. For a complete list of winners, click here.
About Connamara Technologies
Connamara Technologies is the leading provider of fully-integrated exchange infrastructure, empowering new and existing exchanges to operate with exceptional efficiency and reliability. Its EP3® platform is a new breed of exchange and clearing technology that seamlessly integrates all key functions into a single, robust platform. It is cost-accessible, adaptable, scalable and quick-to-market. Engineered for the evolving needs of the next generation of exchanges and marketplaces, EP3 is shaping the future of financial markets.
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Today, Connamara Technologies announces the release of the new Trade Clearing API for EP3.
An exchange using a central limit order book is responsible for managing the transaction that occurs when the price of a buy order matches that of a sell order. What happens next, post trade, is the clearance and settlement of the trade. This is, among other things, where the buyer transfers the funds used to buy the asset to the seller, and the seller transfers the purchased asset to the buyer. This process is loosely called Trade Clearance and Settlement.
While EP3 does provide the functionality for the clearance and settlement of trades made in the EP3 matching engine, some Exchange Operators choose to use third-party clearing and settlement services for this process.
Because EP3 offers the Trade Clearing API, Exchange Operators can create the workflows and interactions necessary to utilize the services of third-party clearing providers.
At Connamara Technologies, we continually strive to improve how our customers interact with the EP3 platform. A key pattern we put in place when we first designed EP3 was to allow our customers to interact with the functionality and data within EP3 via a set of well-defined and easy-to-use APIs.
