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24 Exchange Secures SEC Approval for 23-Hour Trading Platform

24 Exchange, the multi-asset trading platform designed to facilitate continuous trading across various asset classes, has received approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate 24X National Exchange, the first U.S. national securities exchange offering 23-hour trading on weekdays. This milestone is contingent on adjustments to Equity Data Plans to support overnight...

FINRA’s 2024 New and Updated Guidelines on AI and GenAI/LLM Integration

In 2024, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) expanded its guidance on integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the securities industry, placing particular emphasis on generative AI (GenAI) and large language models. This builds upon FINRA’s ongoing efforts since 2020 to ensure that member firms adhere to existing regulatory frameworks while adopting advanced technologies. The recent...

Why NatWest’s e-Comms Channel Ban Sparks Debate: Insights from Symphony’s Brad Levy

NatWest’s recent decision to ban popular messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger on company devices has reignited debate over how financial institutions manage off-channel communications. Brad Levy, CEO of Symphony shared his insights with RegTech Insight on why channel bans are only a temporary solution to a complex issue. Levy argues that there is...

Quincy Data Launches Sub-Nanosecond Time Synchronisation Service

Quincy Data, provider of ultra-low latency market data technology, has introduced a Time Synchronisation as a Service (TSaaS) offering, designed to deliver sub-nanosecond accuracy for firms operating across major US financial exchanges. The service, which operates in the New Jersey and Chicago metropolitan regions, provides a plug-and-play solution for precise time distribution, addressing growing industry...

QuantHouse Integrates Saudi Exchange Market Data

QuantHouse, the API Data and Trading Solutions business of Iress, has expanded its offering to provide real-time market data from the Saudi Exchange, enabling clients to access comprehensive trading information from the largest stock exchange in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The integration makes real-time data on equities, trusts, rights, indices, and...

BSO Unveils DataOne: Europe’s First Giga-Scale AI Hosting Data Centre

BSO, the global infrastructure and connectivity provider, has announced the creation of DataOne, Europe’s first giga-scale AI hosting infrastructure, following months of confidential development. Located in France, the project is backed by Ardian Debt Fund alongside leading commercial banks and represents a significant step forward for AI-compatible data centre technology in Europe. The site’s infrastructure...

Kaiko’s Acquisition of Vinter Set to Expand Crypto Indexing Capabilities

Earlier this month, Kaiko, the cryptocurrency market data vendor, acquired Vinter, Europe’s largest crypto index provider, in a move aimed at meeting the growing institutional demand for cryptocurrency indices. The acquisition comes as interest in digital asset markets continues to rise, particularly following the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US earlier this year....

Keysight and Instrumentix Partner to Enhance Trade Visibility in Financial Markets

Through a partnership with Instrumentix, the latency and flow monitoring solutions specialists, Keysight Technologies, Inc. has expanded its financial capital markets portfolio by introducing a trade monitoring solution designed to address inefficiencies in trade execution and market data performance. The collaboration integrates Instrumentix’s xMetrics flow monitoring and analytics platform with Keysight’s network visibility tools, offering...

Broadridge Tradeverse – When a Data Lake is Not a Data Lake

Hugh Daly, Broadridge Financial Solutions’ head of capital markets data and artificial intelligence, is being mischievous when he describes the company’s latest innovation, its Tradeverse data platform. “It must sound very much like Tradeverse is a data lake – if it quacks like a data lake and walks like a data lake, fundamentally it must...

Droit adds ETD Reporting with Traceability and Transparency for Compliance

Computational law and regulatory technology provider Droit has released a new Exchange Traded Derivates (ETDs) Reporting product for clearing firms to address increasingly stringent regulatory reporting requirements for accuracy and transparency. “There is increased scrutiny around exchange-traded derivatives reporting. When audits occur, firms need to understand how decisions are made,” explains Brock Arnason, Founder and...