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11 Leading Analytics Data Providers Transforming Capital Markets

Data exists for a purpose – to be used – and in modern capital markets, there is an increasing array of use cases to which information can be deployed. Chief among those is analytics, divining meaning and insight from the vast volumes of data that is available internally and from third parties. Sourcing the right...

Can You Explain Your Compliance Decisions? RegTech Summit New York Examines the Evidence

RegTech Summit New York returns on 19 November for its tenth year, bringing regulators and practitioners together to examine compliance, data and artificial intelligence (AI). Across the agenda runs a question with consequences for compliance innovation: can firms demonstrate that their controls work and explain the decisions they produce? When a regulator challenges a reporting...

Tavira Expands AQXT Partnership to Centralise Post-Trade Data and Automation

Tavira Financial, the independent multi-asset agency brokerage and institutional trading platform, is expanding its use of AQX Technologies (AQXT) to consolidate post-trade data and automate operational processes across its business. The development builds on a relationship spanning more than six years, during which AQXT’s XDESK platform has evolved into a central component of Tavira’s post-trade...

Eurex Clearing Unveils Hybrid CCP Model to Integrate Traditional and Digital Securities

Eurex Clearing has announced plans to become what it describes as the world’s first hybrid central counterparty (CCP), integrating traditional and digitally native securities within a single clearing framework, rulebook and risk model. The initiative will allow market participants to trade, clear and finance digital instruments using their existing clearing relationships and infrastructure. Under the...

Bloomberg Adds AI Coding Assistant to BQuant to Accelerate Financial Data Analysis

Bloomberg has introduced BQuant Assistant, a conversational AI coding tool integrated into its BQuant analytics platform, enabling financial professionals to use natural-language instructions to develop investment strategies, query financial datasets and build analytical applications without requiring extensive programming expertise. Available through BQuant Desktop and BQuant Enterprise, the assistant operates within the platform’s existing Python development...

TRG Screen Launches Activity Monitor to Improve Visibility into Market Data Terminal Usage

TRG Screen, the market data and subscription cost management solutions provider, has launched Activity Monitor, a new capability designed to help financial institutions identify underutilised market data terminals, optimise licensing arrangements and reduce expenditure through more granular analysis of how employees use terminal services. Announced on 29 October, the solution captures function-level activity, allowing market...

Tradefeedr Brings AI-Powered Analytics to the Next Generation of TCA

Artificial intelligence is opening up new possibilities for transaction cost analysis (TCA), allowing traders and portfolio managers to interrogate execution data, explore trading performance and generate customised insights without relying on specialist quantitative or programming skills. But as AI becomes more deeply embedded in execution workflows, questions around analytical consistency, transparency and accountability are becoming...

Connecting Client Engagement to Commercial Outcomes: Singletrack’s AI-First Approach

Capital markets firms generate enormous volumes of information through their interactions with clients, yet much of that data remains fragmented across research, sales and trading, corporate access and investment banking. Bringing those activities together offers opportunities to improve client engagement, identify commercial opportunities and gain a clearer understanding of the value delivered by different parts...

RegSensus Combines FundApps and SteelEye Around Regulatory Consensus and Shared Data

FundApps and SteelEye have launched RegSensus, a new entity combining regulatory monitoring and reporting with trade and communications surveillance following completion of their merger in September. The business targets two sources of duplicated compliance work: firms rebuilding datasets for separate obligations and interpreting the same regulations independently. Announced on 27 October, the merger aims to...

Beeks and OmniPhi Target Institutional Agentic AI with Sovereign Infrastructure Partnership

Beeks Financial Cloud Group has partnered with Canadian fintech OmniPhi to develop a sovereign agentic AI platform for capital markets, combining privately hosted large language models with tools for automating trading-related workflows. The agreement includes a strategic investment by Beeks in OmniPhi and will see the companies target banks, brokers, asset managers and professional traders....