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Fanatics Buys BGC’s Exchange and Clearinghouse to Bring Prediction Markets In-House
Global sports platform Fanatics has agreed to acquire Water Street Labs, a CFTC-registered Designated Contract Market (DCM), and CX Clearinghouse, a registered Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), from BGC Group. The acquisition gives Fanatics direct ownership of the exchange and clearing infrastructure that will enable it to expand its prediction markets business. Alongside the transaction, the…
ICE Adds Institutional Bond Execution with $6 Billion MarketAxess Acquisition
Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to acquire MarketAxess Holdings for $167 per share in cash, valuing the electronic bond trading platform at approximately $6 billion in equity and $5.7 billion in enterprise value. The price is a 33% premium to MarketAxess’s closing price on 29 July. MarketAxess connects around 2,100 institutional investors and broker-dealers in more…
S&P Global Integrates with Intelligence Data into Capital IQ Pro Platform
S&P Global has begun integrating data assets from its recent acquisition of With Intelligence into its flagship S&P Capital IQ Pro platform. The initial rollout introduces investor allocation and commitment data, fund performance records, fund-level screening across private market asset classes, and editorial commentary from ‘The Deal’. This integration represents the first concrete product output…
Opetek Launches ARIUS Reasoning Platform with Tier One Bank Piloting on FX Options Desks
Opetek has launched ARIUS, a quantitative reasoning platform for institutional trading desks, which is being piloted by traders and quants at a tier-one global investment bank across live FX options workflows in New York, London and Singapore. A second tier-one institution has been approved and onboarded, with go-live expected in the coming weeks. Designed for…
12 Leading Providers of Semantic Layers in Modern Capital Markets Data Stacks
Reconciling fragmented financial data across disparate trading systems, risk engines and regulatory reporting pipelines is a challenge that frequently results in conflicting analytical outputs, costly reconciliation cycles, and elevated operational risk under frameworks like BCBS 239 and FRTB. The enterprise response has been a move away from continuous database consolidations towards centralised semantic layers. Positioned…
AI May Well be a Big Accelerator, But Let’s Not Forget the Destination
By Chris Livesey, chief executive of AutoRek. Across the financial services software landscape, vendors and end-user customers are chasing a new goal, in how fast they can AI-ify or agentify everything that moves to claim unique differentiation and plant a flag for their brand as a market leader. We’ve seen this cycle many times before, for example with internet, cloud…
Single Rulebook and Sigma AI Target Regulatory Lag as Markets Accelerate
Single Rulebook and Sigma AI have partnered to shorten the time between an exchange changing its rules and the affected trading business responding. Exchanges can issue circulars that alter trading conditions each day, leaving firms to identify affected desks, assess the operational consequences and document decisions across disconnected teams. The firms aim to deliver source-grounded…
BIGTXN Turns Investment Restrictions into Trade-Ready Controls
An interview with Founder & CEO, Haider Mannan. Investment screening has its greatest operational impact before a trade, when a firm needs a defensible compliance decision without delaying execution. BIGTXN founder and chief executive Haider Mannan built the company around that constraint. “Because if you’re holding up execution, it’s costing the business,” he told RegTech…
Buy or Build? Trade Surveillance Software’s Oldest Question Has New Stakes
By Nolan Schiff, Chief Solutions Officer, Eventus. It’s a question nearly as old as enterprise software itself: should you pay a vendor to deliver your technology, or dedicate internal resources to building and maintaining it yourself? For trade surveillance, it’s a decision that requires weighing cost against control, performance against customization and the speed of…
Bloomberg Acquisition of Canoe Marks ‘Major’ Step in Private Markets for Data Behemoth
Bloomberg is to acquire private market data automation specialist Canoe Intelligence as the financial data behemoth seeks to expand its offerings in the booming market for alternatives data. In what the company says is one of the most significant deals in its history, Bloomberg has characterised the acquisition as the “latest step” in a multi-year…