A-Team Insight Author: Rollings Nicole
Kalshi Takes Prediction Markets into European Securities Infrastructure
Prediction markets are moving another step towards the infrastructure of conventional capital markets, with Kalshi partnering with FCA-regulated structured products issuer Otala.Markets to make exposure to selected event contracts available to European investors through listed securities. Under the agreement, Otala will issue securities referencing markets traded on Kalshi, beginning with contracts linked to US Federal...
CDOs Play Increasingly Vital Role in Driving and Safeguarding AI Transformation: DMS NYC Preview
Modern chief data officers (CDOs) – and, more recently, chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) – have an unenviable task. They are the gatekeepers of their organisation’s chief asset; its digital information. In the age of artificial intelligence, the importance of their role has been elevated and made more complex as the risks posed by...
ICE to Collaborate with tZERO on tokenisation of Public Securities; Increase Stake and License Blockchain Patents
Global exchange group Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and tokenisation infrastructure provider tZERO Group have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) related to set of agreements to support tokenised public securities markets. Under the MOU, tZERO will be a “premier design partner” for ICE’s NYSE unit with respect to its planned tokenised securities platform (aka Digital Trading...
Putting Quantum Computing to the Algo Trading Test
Quantum computing has long been discussed in capital markets as a technology with potentially transformative applications, but one whose practical impact remains some way off. Recent work by HSBC and IBM suggests the gap between quantum research and real-world trading may be starting to narrow. In a study using production-scale European corporate bond trading data,...
London Stock Exchange Pushes Tokenisation into Public Equity Market Infrastructure
The London Stock Exchange is taking a significant step towards bringing tokenisation into mainstream equity market infrastructure, with plans for a UK tokenised equity structure and a partnership with Payward that could eventually connect blockchain-based distribution with regulated public markets. The initiative is intended to explore a model that broadens access to UK equities while...
Taming Data Complexity Through Semantic Layers: Webinar Preview
The complex data needs of modern financial institutions requires a level of technical mastery that is beyond the talents of most members of their workforces. Artificial intelligence and agentic automation, in particular, have hastened that evolution to such a degree that without such mastery across the enterprise, organisations leave themselves competitively vulnerable. The solution to...
15 Software and Data Vendors Solving Valuation, Integration and Reporting in Alternative Investments
The secular shift towards private markets has transformed alternative asset allocations from an institutional tactical sleeve into a core portfolio driver. Yet behind this expansion lies a stubborn operational bottleneck: alternative asset data remains inherently unstructured, fragmented and delayed. Unlike public equities, where standardised data feeds integrate seamlessly into order management systems, private market data...
EU AI Act Puts AI’s Underlying Data Problems In The Spotlight
By Sarva Srinivasan, Global Head of Strategies at NeoXam Americas Another important part of the EU AI Act has come into play – with Article 50 introducing transparency obligations for certain AI systems, requiring organisations to disclose when users are interacting with AI. Now much of the discussion around these requirements has tended to focus...
Sense Street Brings AI Workflow Automation to Primary Bond Issuance
Fixed income markets have undergone substantial electronification over the past two decades, but parts of the primary issuance process remain surprisingly manual. On busy new-issue days, salespeople can still spend significant amounts of time reading investor orders and amendments from chat conversations and manually entering them into bookbuilding systems. Sense Street, the capital markets AI...
BankChain Alliance Kicks Off to Build Next Generation of Banking Infrastructure
Banking associations from 39 US states have formed the BankChain Alliance to build an industry-owned and governed blockchain platform that will allow participating financial institutions to “offer emerging banking capabilities while maintaining the regulatory standards, security, and trust that customers expect from their banks.” Examples of services that will likely be provided by BankChain members...