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Reimagining the Trading Desk: Integration, AI and the Future of the O/EMS
The architecture of the trading desk is evolving as financial institutions seek to simplify fragmented technology environments, extend their multi-asset capabilities and incorporate AI into trading workflows. While the convergence of order management systems (OMS) and execution management systems (EMS) has been a longstanding industry objective, the emphasis is increasingly shifting towards interoperability, shared data…
Symphony Advances AI-Powered Client Communications with Secure Agentic Workflows
Winner of Best AI Solution for Client Communications at the A-Team Group’s AI in Capital Markets Awards 2026, Symphony is extending its communications platform to support AI agents across institutional workflows and client-facing channels. Financial institutions are increasingly exploring how AI agents can improve client engagement and automate communications workflows, while maintaining the security, governance…
Promenaut Targets the Governance Gap in Enterprise Agentic AI
Financial institutions have invested heavily in artificial intelligence, deploying coding assistants, automated workflows and increasingly sophisticated AI agents. But how can banks translate improvements in individual productivity into meaningful efficiency gains across the organisation? And as agents take on more complex workflows spanning multiple business functions, how can institutions maintain control over their activities, access…
LTX Takes Agentic BondGPT into Live Trading as Institutional Adoption Begins
LTX, the Broadridge-owned corporate bond trading platform, has begun rolling out its Agentic BondGPT capabilities to institutional clients, enabling traders to automate workflows ranging from market monitoring and order preparation to RFQ initiation and execution. The technology, announced in June, became available to clients in mid-September following several months of testing. Around a dozen institutions…
A Q&A with DTCC’s Rebecca Ashton on Europe’s T+1 Transition and the US Treasury Clearing Mandate
The countdown for the move to T+1 in Europe, UK and Switzerland is on, and with twelve months to go, firms should be well advanced in preparation for the operational impacts of compressed settlement. In this Q&A with RegTech Insight, Rebecca Ashton, Managing Director and Head of Consulting at DTCC Â examines gaps in preparation, the…
LSEG to Acquire Octus for $3.5 Billion in Major Expansion of Credit Data and Analytics
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has agreed to acquire Octus, the New York-based provider of credit intelligence, data and workflow solutions, for $3.535 billion in cash, significantly expanding its presence in private and illiquid credit markets. The acquisition will bring Octus’ proprietary credit data and analytics into LSEG’s existing fixed income offering, providing institutional customers…
Substantive Research Finds AI Driving Market Data Costs Higher as Investment Research Budgets Stall
Two new studies from Substantive Research reveal contrasting commercial pressures across the financial information industry, with market data vendors seeking substantial premiums for AI-enabled access while investment research providers struggle to translate growing machine consumption into additional revenue. The findings highlight how artificial intelligence is reshaping the economics of financial information, raising questions about pricing…
How AI is Reshaping the Buy/Build Calculus for Capital Markets Technology
Artificial intelligence is changing the economics of technology development across capital markets, making it faster and cheaper for firms to build their own applications. But while AI is lowering the barriers to software development, it is also raising questions about long-term ownership costs, the pace of vendor innovation and where firms should focus their technology…
Data and Governance Take Centre Stage in AI Adoption
Financial institutions are making significant progress in deploying agentic AI, but differences in data infrastructure, governance and commercial priorities are creating a widening gap between those scaling the technology and those still experimenting, according to new research from A-Team Group. The study, commissioned by LSEG Data & Analytics and based on responses from 200 senior…
The $1million Brokerage Fee Blind Spot Banks Can No Longer Ignore
By Liz Collegio, Head of Product Management, Meritsoft (a Cognizant company). Banks scrutinise every fraction of a basis point on the trading desk, yet millions can still leak away through brokerage fees. These fees are the cost of doing business, but few have a clear view of what they should be paying across the business….