Q3 2026: 20 Options Exchanges, 130+ Markets, and Brand New Frontiers
This quarter’s additions – US options, the EU consolidated tape, frontier markets, and new access channels – share one thread: each fills a gap that has historically kept desks on multiple vendors. That steady expansion is what, over time, makes consolidating on one platform worth it.
Here is what landed.
The US options market keeps growing
With MEMX MX2 Options, the US now counts 20 equity options exchanges, each with its own Top and Depth feed. Fragmentation is the reality of US options, and it is what the market has been waiting for: a vendor that carries the whole suite. From this quarter, you can see all of it: we now carry every US options proprietary top feed in normalized form, and IEX Options TOPS, the newest of the set, is in production. Depth feeds ride along: one normalized feed for the full fragmented view, or raw where latency matters. The point is not the count. It is that one question – what is the market doing right now?- can finally be answered from a single normalized source.
Europe’s consolidated tape is here
After years of regulation and waiting, the EU equity consolidated tape is live. EuroCTP -the provider ESMA selected to operate it – is available from us, normalized and raw, with pan-European coverage. It brings together the European Best Bid and Offer (EBBO), the periodic and frequent batch auctions (EBAP and EFBA), and post-trade activity across 130+ markets. For most desks, that is the end of stitching a dozen venue feeds together to answer one question. Where you still need pre-trade quote attribution or depth of book, the individual venue feeds on AtlasFeed fill the gap.
Watch our interview with Veronica Taylor, Head of Sales at EuroCTP.
Frontier and emerging markets are opening up
Q3 brought five more venues: Borsa Istanbul, the Dubai Financial Market (DFM), Taipei Exchange, and Vietnam’s Hanoi Stock Exchange and Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange. All are available normalized, with both Vietnamese venues offered raw. These are the markets that previously fell outside any single vendor’s coverage. Borsa Istanbul is Turkey’s sole exchange and one of the most active retail equity markets in the world this year, DFM is riding Dubai’s IPO pipeline, and Vietnam’s two venues sit at the centre of the market upgrade story most of the world is watching.
New corridors and new access
The final theme is new channels. SGX GIFT Connect gives members access to Nifty futures traded out of India’s GIFT City – a direct Singapore-to-Gujarat channel that is reshaping where India-linked risk is priced. TP ICAP’s iConnect data is now available for broker liquidity. And with Eurex Sponsored Access, Options IT becomes the connectivity provider for market data and order entry. This opens raw Eurex data to non-member firms sponsored by a member firm – a model Eurex plans to extend to Xetra.
What it all means
In short, the gaps that once forced desks to run multiple vendors are closing. US options, the EU tape, frontier markets, new access channels, all delivered on the same platform, normalized or raw, in the same format as everything else we cover. Consolidating on one vendor is about the sum of what you can see, and that sum just got meaningfully bigger. The momentum is not slowing down. Q4’s pipeline of new markets and access routes is deeper than any quarter we have had, and we cannot wait to show you what the next step looks like.
| AtlasFeed normalized | Raw / native feed or connectivity |
| CIX Trading | CIX Trading |
| EuroCTP | EuroCTP |
| Borsa Istanbul (BIST) | Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) |
| Dubai Financial Market (DFM) | Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) |
| MEMX MX2 Options Top | SGX GIFT Connect (members only) |
| IEX Options Top | Nasdaq GEMX — order and depth |
| Taipei Exchange (TPEx) | Nasdaq ISE, MRX, PHLX and MEMX — depth |
| Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) | Eurex Sponsored Access (SpA) connectivity |
| Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) | |
| LSEG Regulatory News Service (RNS) via DJN | |
| TMX Broadcast Feeds | |
| TP ICAP / iConnect |