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Liquidnet Introduces Roll Seeker to Streamline Futures Rolls Execution

Liquidnet, the technology-driven agency execution specialist, has launched Roll Seeker, a new tool designed to enhance workflows associated with the execution of futures rolls. The development responds to member requests to utilise Liquidnet’s block trading expertise to discover contra end-user liquidity interest more effectively. “With exchange-traded derivatives being such a mature market, we wanted to...

The New Frontier of Outsourced Data Management: S&P Global Market Intelligence Report

Digitalisation has taken financial institutions along a prosperous path of better understanding, management and utilisation of the data that their activities generate. But technological evolution and the changed economic environment have placed a new set of challenges onto their shoulders. Institutions are now grappling with how they can take their digital programme further, especially given...

Better Data, Better Business: Combat Identity-Related Fraud with the LEI

By Clare Rowley, Head of Business Operations at the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). The global economy is wrestling with never-before-seen levels of identity-related fraud. Cybercrime costs in the US reached an estimated $320 billion as of 2023, according to Statista. Between 2017 and 2023, this figure has seen a significant increase of over...

Cube Scales Globally with Two Strategic Acquisitions

With two significant acquisitions announced within days of each other beginning with – Cube acquires Reg-Room to further extend its regulatory intelligence and horizon scanning capabilities followed 8 days later by Cube acquires global regulatory intelligence businesses from Thomson Reuters  – regulatory intelligence specialist Cube has been busy adding to its portfolio of capabilities. RegTech...

DTCC, Clearstream, and Euroclear Collaborate on Digital Asset Ecosystem Framework

Three leading financial market infrastructures – DTCC, Clearstream, and Euroclear – in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), have unveiled a blueprint aimed at establishing an industry-wide digital asset ecosystem to drive acceptance of tokenised assets. The paper, “Building the Digital Asset Ecosystem,” highlights a significant $16 trillion business opportunity by 2030 through the tokenisation...

ipushpull and Rapid Addition Partner to Enhance Real-Time Notification Delivery for Trading Teams

ipushpull, the live data sharing platform, and Rapid Addition, specialists in electronic trading infrastructure, have partnered to tackle issues of missed alerts and slow notification delivery for trading support teams. The collaboration aims to provide seamless, real-time distribution of critical data notifications via popular chat platforms such as Symphony, Microsoft Teams, and WhatsApp. The initiative...

Meritsoft Integrates Taskize to Enhance Trade Settlement Efficiency as T+1 Takes Effect

As markets in North America transition to a T+1 settlement cycle this week, Meritsoft, a Cognizant company, has integrated Taskize’s collaboration and workflow functionality into its Trade Tracking and Exception Manager (TTEM) to expedite query resolution and minimise trade settlement failures in the shortened timeframe. Meritsoft’s TTEM platform monitors the entire trade lifecycle, providing near...

Webinar Preview: ESG Data Management Challenge of New Sourcing Landscape

Financial institutions face a new set of ESG data management challenges even though data sourcing has become easier as the sustainability sector has matured. While more data is available to firms, thanks to a combination of new reporting regulations and standardisation of disclosure frameworks, the increasing variety of information needed and the volumes in which...

Summit Key Note Speakers Highlight Growing use of AI in Data Management

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) to data management processes has developed apace within the sustainability space as a necessity to help institutions make better use of the growing volumes of ESG information they need. From helping to pull data from unstructured sources, such as reports and other written documents, to cross-referencing and matching disparate...

J.P. Morgan Adds Containerised Data for Institutional Investors to Fusion Data Mesh

J.P. Morgan has added Containerized Data for institutional investors to its Fusion data mesh. The solution normalises data across multiple providers, sources, types and structures and provides consistent and enriched data across business services. Fusion is a cloud-native data technology platform that provides data management, analytics and reporting, and is built on J.P. Morgan’s global...