A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
BNP Paribas Extends RAQUEST Relationship as MiKaDiv Tests Custody Data and Governance
BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business is extending its relationship with RAQUEST to implement MiKaDiv reporting across its custody operations. The agreement illustrates the coordination required as Germany’s withholding-tax reporting regime brings new data requirements to institutions occupying several positions in the custody chain. Announced on 10 November, the implementation builds on BNP Paribas’ use of...
J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Kurtosys to Partner on Global Client Reporting Transformation
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has selected Kurtosys as its strategic technology partner for client reporting, following more than 15 months of evaluation and onboarding. Announced on 27 October, the partnership will support the consolidation of reporting platforms and workflows across the firm’s global business. The programme brings together Kurtosys’s reporting platform and J.P. Morgan Asset...
Nasdaq and NYSE Add Momentum to Pyth’s Market Data Push
Nasdaq and NYSE are among the latest institutions to embrace a market data distribution model designed around software-based consumption, joining a Pyth Network ecosystem that already includes data publishing institutions such as Cboe Global Markets, Jane Street, Fidelity, Coinbase, Virtu Financial and Jump Trading. Pyth is now an external distributor of Nasdaq Basic, the exchange...
FactSet Expands Alternative Data Offering Through Carbon Arc Partnership
FactSet has partnered with alternative data platform Carbon Arc to integrate more than 500 data assets from over 60 providers into its Workstation and AI ecosystem, expanding the range of information available to investment professionals through existing research and analytical workflows. Announced on 10 November, the agreement covers datasets spanning credit card transactions, retail foot...
A-Team Explores and Explains Wall Street 2.0 at its Debut Digital Assets & Tokenisation Briefing
A-Team Group’s newly-minted Digital Assets & Tokenisation Briefing – New York City on 19 November – is set to deliver a content-packed morning that both looks ahead to the promise of a Wall Street 2.0 (near?) future while providing practical insights and directions from a roster of experts that can help show attendees how to...
NYSE Selects Avalanche as Core Ledger Technology for Tokenised Securities Venue
In a widely expected development, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has selected AvaLabs and its Avalanche blockchain to provide “core ledger technology” for clearing and settlement of tokenised equities executed on its planned affiliated trading venue, which is expected to go live this year, subject to regulatory approval. “At the NYSE, we’re looking at...
Apex, Chainlink and T-REX Partner on Swift Compliance for Tokenised Bonds
Apex Group, Chainlink Labs, T-REX Network and the ERC-3643 Association are partnering to implement a compliance framework for on-chain bonds, aligned with Swift standards. The initiative has selected the increasingly adopted ERC-3643 protocol for token compliance and has aligned it with Swift standards to offer an approach to meeting compliance requirements – including identity, investor...
France’s NeoXam Sets up UK Team to Win Local Business
Data management and reconciliation provider NeoXam has launched a dedicated team in the UK, bringing sales and servicing closer to UK clients to win more local business and strengthen its global footprint. The French company, who’s software and technology helps companies oversee and manage more than 25 trillion euros of assets, has begun with a...
Agentic AI Growth Continues Amid Operational and Compliance Warnings
The slow rollout of multi-agent artificial intelligence systems and growing concern over the risks of poorly governed AI models suggest current iterations of the technology may be testing the limits of its effectiveness – even as financial institutions press on with deployments. A survey by French IT consultancy Capgemini found that the emerging use of...
Asset Managers Have A Data Problem That AI Alone Cannot Solve
By Gus Sekhon, VP Strategy, FINBOURNE Technology. For all the billions spent modernising investment technology, one question continues to linger for asset managers around what exactly do they own and where the risks lie? While it may sound straightforward, the reality is that across the investment industry right now, producing a complete picture of portfolio...