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From Sandbox to Scale-Up: How the FCA Plans to Shape UK Fintech Growth
In her address at Merchant Taylors’ Hall on 17 September 2025, Jessica Rusu, the FCA’s Chief Data, Information and Intelligence Officer, set out a comprehensive programme of initiatives underpin the regulator’s growth and innovation agenda. The speech, “Regulating for growth – the future is now”, presented four central pillars: strengthening crypto oversight, advancing artificial intelligence...
ipushpull and Koch Automate OTC Gas Trade Booking with Gen AI Agent
Data platform ipushpull has partnered with Koch Energy Services to launch an LLM-enabled agent designed to automate the entire lifecycle of physical natural gas trades, from chat to booking. The move tackles the long-standing challenge of manual, error-prone workflows in over-the-counter (OTC) markets and signals a major step forward in the application of Generative AI...
Interop.io Targets Secure AI Adoption in Finance with io.Intelligence Launch
Desktop interoperability specialist interop.io has today unveiled io.Intelligence, a new initiative designed to enable financial institutions to securely deploy and scale AI copilots within their existing technology infrastructure. The launch aims to bridge the gap between the powerful potential of AI and the practical realities of complex, highly regulated enterprise environments. The new offering provides...
SimCorp Taps Axyon AI to Embed Predictive Analytics into SimCorp One
SimCorp, a global leader in investment management technology, has announced a strategic partnership with Axyon AI, a fintech specialist in AI-driven predictive analytics. The collaboration will integrate Axyon AI’s technology directly into the SimCorp One platform, aiming to provide portfolio managers with seamless access to AI-powered signals and alpha-generation tools. The move addresses a critical...
KX and OneMarketData to Merge, Creating a New Force in Capital Markets Data and Analytics
KX, the real-time analytics specialist behind the kdb+ time-series database, is set to merge with OneMarketData, provider of the OneTick market data management and analytics platform. The deal, which follows KX’s acquisition by private equity firm TA Associates in July, brings together two well-established names in capital markets technology under the KX brand. Ashok Reddy,...
Data Management Summit New York Takes Deep Dive into Modern Data Landscape
The 15th annual A-Team Group Data Management Summit New York City kicks off tomorrow with one theme prominent in the day of discussions, debates and keynote addresses: data quality. Without good quality data organisations can’t hope to achieve their objectives, be they implementation of artificial intelligence applications, automation of essential workflows or compliance with regulatory...
Modern Data Platform Adoption Growth Seen as Benefits Become Apparent: Webinar Review
Take-up of modern data platforms (MDPs) is expected to accelerate in the next few years as financial institutions realise the greater agility, scalability and deeper insights offered by the innovation. Organisations that have so far been relatively slow to adopt the streamlined platforms – because they have been unsure of the technologies’ benefits – will...
AI Governance Frameworks Are Emerging as Applications Abound: Webinar Review
Capital markets leaders are in the early stages of implementing comprehensive artificial intelligence governance frameworks as they begin to realise the challenges as well as the opportunities offered by the technology. As the adoption of AI accelerates it’s becoming apparent that it needs its own set of rules on how it can be effectively and...
DTCC Sees T+1 Prep Accelerate as BNP Paribas and J.P. Morgan Adopt CTM Workflow
As the UK and Europe advance towards their 2027 deadline for T+1 settlement, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced that BNP Paribas and J.P. Morgan have adopted its CTM automated tri-party matching workflow. The move is a significant indicator that large-scale preparations for the compressed settlement cycle are gathering pace, with firms...
LSEG Launches Digital Asset Platform to Modernise Private Funds Market
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has officially entered the digital asset space with the launch of its new Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) platform. The platform, developed in collaboration with Microsoft, aims to revolutionise the private funds market by leveraging blockchain technology to streamline the entire asset lifecycle. The DMI platform will support tokenisation, issuance,...