Adaptive reports accelerated product and client growth in 2025

1 December 2025 – Adaptive, the experts in custom trading technology solutions, reports solid performance in 2025 driven by accelerating global demand for proprietary financial technology. The company achieved continued growth in both Product Revenue and Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), alongside a 13% expansion in its client base. This success reflects the continued, rapid adoption of Adaptive’s core technology offerings, including the high-performance Aeron and the Hydra development accelerator platform.

Earlier this year, Adaptive launched a refreshed brand identity and website, reflecting its evolution from a capital markets consultancy (founded in 2012) to a leading provider of high‑performance trading technology that combines deep domain expertise with open‑source and proprietary technology.

Over the past year, Adaptive delivered new technology offerings, announced key industry partnerships, and continued to invest in Aeron – the low-latency messaging and clustering technology used by firms globally to build resilient, performant trading systems. This investment includes imminent updates to Aeron’s AWS cloud performance benchmarks as well as newly announced Aeron Premium and open-source features.

Key 2025 highlights include:

• Expanding product suite:
• Adaptive is committed to open-source and continues to develop features such as Publication Revoke, Response Channels and Image Reject, enabling developers to build more efficient, finely-tuned, and optimized systems with immediate resource management and precise control over data streams. See latest release notes here >>.
• Adaptive enhanced its Aeron Premium offering by adding new capabilities, including Aeron Insights (real-time monitoring and actionable intelligence to detect and resolve issues in distributed systems), SBE Domain Mapper (a productivity tool for teams leveraging SBE) and Aeron Transport Selector (an application to optimize CPU utilization and enhance efficiency).
• We introduced our award-winning open Exchange Accelerator platform, enabling exchanges to rapidly deploy custom exchange and matching engine technology while maintaining IP ownership, reducing vendor lock‑in, and accelerating innovation. Unlike closed, proprietary offerings, Adaptive licenses the source code so firms have the freedom to customize and build upon the existing feature set.
• Industry partnerships: Adaptive partnered with Rapid Addition, a leader in financial messaging protocols, to offer clients best-in-class FIX capabilities. The partnership enables Adaptive to integrate comprehensive FIX capabilities within its custom trading technology platforms and provide a seamless integration for clients across both firms, through Rapid Addition’s Aeron-based platform.
• Team growth: Adaptive grew its global overall headcount supported by strategic hires across Sales and Marketing, including Greg Henry and Ben Jefferys to expand its commercial reach.

Matt Barrett, CEO of Adaptive said: “2025 has been a pivotal year for Adaptive. Our product revenue and client growth reflect firms choosing to differentiate with their own technology, not rent someone else’s—and our investments in Aeron and our accelerator technology are helping them do exactly that. We enter 2026 with stronger identity, market cut‑through, and a product roadmap aligned to how trading stacks will be built and operated over the next decade, including modular design, cloud and open-source.”

“Our focus remains on enterprise‑grade outcomes: predictable performance, on bare metal and in the cloud; resiliency and fault tolerance without complexity; enterprise scalability and developer productivity. The product updates we shipped this year are the foundation for what’s coming next,” added Paul Weiss, CTO, Adaptive.

Looking ahead, in 2026, Adaptive will continue to expand its technology suite and partnerships, with a focus on client value delivered through open infrastructure, sequencer‑based architectures, and cloud‑ready accelerators for modern trading platforms.

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About Adaptive
Adaptive are the leading experts in custom trading technology solutions, crafting bespoke front-office platforms across asset classes. Through a unique combination of deep capital markets expertise and cutting-edge technology, Adaptive creates competitive advantage for businesses now, and for the future.

Amongst Adaptive’s technology accelerators, Aeron®, is the global standard for high-throughput, low-latency, resilient trading systems, on-premise and in the cloud. With offices in London, New York, Barcelona, Montréal, and Manila, Adaptive ensures seamless global support, anywhere firms trade.

At Adaptive we help navigate the ever-shifting landscape of capital markets, transforming the future of trading through technology. https://www.weareadaptive.com