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Duco Maps a Path Towards Agentic Post-Trade Operations
Duco is extending agentic AI deeper into post-trade operations following production trials in which 12 financial institutions recorded an average 76% reduction in time spent on manual reconciliation work. The participants in Duco’s Pacesetters programme, which include BBVA, Blackstone Credit & Insurance and CIBC Mellon, reported reductions of more than 91% in the time required…
Buy vs. Build Now Has Two Answers in Investment Operations
By Pat Conroy, Head of Strategy, Product & Innovation, STP Investment Services. An operations leader at a mid-market investment manager is sitting across from a vendor demo. The pitch is compelling, but in the back of their mind, one question keeps surfacing: should we just build this ourselves? A year later, that same firm is…
Bloomberg Enterprise MCP Brings Market Data into the Agentic AI Workflow
Bloomberg has launched an enterprise AI access layer for its Data License Plus (DL+) offering, giving clients’ AI agents a standardised way to discover, interpret and retrieve licensed Bloomberg data across more than 100 million securities and over 50,000 fields. Bloomberg Enterprise Model Context Protocol (MCP) combines the data with metadata, semantic context and entity…
Trading Technologies Expands Multi-Asset Push with TRAFiX Acquisition
Trading Technologies (TT) has acquired equities and equity options technology provider TRAFiX, filling a significant gap in its expanding multi-asset platform and setting out a roughly 12-month path towards integrating the two firms’ trading technology. The deal extends TT’s coverage into global equities and equity options through TRAFiX’s order and execution management systems (OEMS), FIX…
BMLL and Simudyne Bring Reactive AI Simulation to Trading and Market Structure
BMLL and Simudyne have partnered to combine granular historical order book data with generative AI and agent-based simulation, creating simulated markets that can respond dynamically to trading activity rather than simply replaying historical events. The collaboration brings BMLL’s harmonised Level 2 and Level 3 historical data into Simudyne’s Pulse intraday market simulator. Simudyne is using…
DTCC and iCapital Target Private Markets Infrastructure as Alternative Assets Move Towards Scale
DTCC and iCapital have formed a strategic collaboration aimed at bringing greater automation, standardisation and connectivity to private markets, as growing allocations to alternative investments put pressure on an operational infrastructure that remains considerably more fragmented than its public-markets equivalent. The agreement brings together DTCC’s market infrastructure, processing capabilities and participant network with iCapital’s technology…
FactSet Pushes Deeper into Enterprise Market Data Infrastructure with BCC Group Acquisition
FactSet’s acquisition of BCC Group International (bccg) brings the data and analytics provider further into the infrastructure layer underpinning institutional market data, as financial firms reassess architectures built around legacy distribution platforms. Announced last week, the deal brings bccg’s ONE Platform into FactSet’s Real-Time Solution Suite, combining FactSet’s real-time, historical and reference data capabilities with…
Why the Future Trading Desk Looks More Augmented Than Autonomous
After decades of electronification and automation, the next stage in the evolution of the buy-side trading desk may be less about removing traders from execution than changing the information, tools and decisions that reach them. That was one of the clearest themes to emerge from A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Insight webinar, The Buy-side Trading Desk…
TS Imagine Pushes AI Deeper into Trading Workflows with TSIQ
TS Imagine is taking its use of artificial intelligence beyond information retrieval and analysis and into trading, portfolio and risk workflows with the launch of TSIQ, an AI platform designed to explain, recommend and – subject to user-defined controls – act. The launch follows a five-year, $100 million investment by the company in data, infrastructure…
Liquidnet Targets Fragmented Liquidity Landscape with Meridian
Liquidnet has brought its algorithmic trading capabilities together under a new proposition, Meridian, as institutional equity traders face an increasingly complex liquidity landscape spanning lit and dark venues, bilateral liquidity and other execution mechanisms. The launch is the culmination of an 11-year expansion of Liquidnet’s electronic trading business. Meridian combines its algorithms, analytics, quantitative services…