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Can Alternative Data Close the Credit Risk Visibility Gap?
Credit risk has traditionally been monitored through a familiar collection of fundamentals, ratings and market prices. But as private and public credit markets become more interconnected, investors are looking across a much wider range of data for signs that a borrower – or an entire sector – may be running into trouble. That search for...
With AI in Place, Now is the Time to Make it Pay: Data Management Summit New York City Review
Getting a return on the billions of dollars invested in artificial intelligence has become a defining theme of discussions over the past year and that was reflected in this year’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit New York City. With the technology’s honeymoon over, now is the time for payback; over a day of expert panel...
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...
Confluence Launches POINT with AI Validation for Regulatory Reporting
Confluence Technologies has launched Confluence POINT, starting with AI-enabled document validation and a conversational interface for its Revolution analytics platform. Confluence says both capabilities are available immediately. POINT Validation checks financial and regulatory documents across multiple formats, including unstructured data. Its automated checklist completes validation in minutes, flags errors for review and records an audit...
spektr 3.0 Puts Policies and Deterministic Controls Around Compliance AI Agents
Copenhagen based spektr has added real-time transaction monitoring, policy management and AI-assisted investigations to its Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) platform. spektr 3.0 converts written policies into operational rules, monitors customer activity against them and uses Case AI to gather evidence and recommend an outcome for analyst approval. Transaction Monitoring checks...
ClearToken Gains UK Regulatory Approval to Operate Digital Securities Depository
Post-trade infrastructure provider ClearToken CSD has secured regulatory approval from the Bank of England to operate a Digital Securities Depository (DSD) within the UK’s Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS). The regulatory milestone, known as “Gate 2,” grants ClearToken the authority to issue and settle tokenised versions of existing financial securities under central bank supervision, subject to specific operational...
Collateral Management Winner for Tokenisation Use Cases in UK Survey
Collateral management was the winning use case cited by respondents to the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Bank of England call for input survey, titled “The future of tokenisation: A joint vision from the authorities for UK wholesale financial markets.” With the survey garnering 123 responses, the results report notes that “Collateral was by...
S&P Global Acquires Smart Contract Security Leader OpenZeppelin
S&P Global has announced the acquisition of OpenZeppelin, a prominent smart contract and blockchain security specialist. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. According to the companies, the acquisition is intended to integrate OpenZeppelin’s security and development services into S&P Global’s digital asset capabilities, focusing on the creation of future on-chain security assessments and...
SEC Introduces “Innovation Exception” to Allow Regulated Trading of Tokenised Securities
In a landmark move that significantly advances the implementation of a regulated tokenised securities marketplace in the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has granted a temporary and conditional “exemption” to allow new Tokenised Securities Venues (TSVs) to operate and trade tokenised National Market System (NMS) stocks without registering as a traditional exchange. The...