By Sylvain Thieullent, CEO of Horizon Trading Solutions

CME Group’s move towards 24/7 trading in its cryptocurrency futures marks a significant turning point for global market structure. While 24/7 trading has become familiar in spot crypto and tokenised asset markets, bringing continuous trading to traditional exchange traded markets introduces a very different set of operational and technological challenges.

Most financial institutions still rely on overnight downtime in ways that are often invisible to the wider market. Those quieter periods allow firms to reconcile trades, refresh risk models, process margin requirements, deploy software updates and perform infrastructure maintenance. In many cases,…