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A-Team Group Announces AI in Capital Markets Awards 2026 Winners
As artificial intelligence dominates conversations among the decisions makers of the world’s financial institutions, A-Team Group has recognised the vendors that are enabling those firms to transform their operations with the most cutting edge of technologies. In its second annual AI in Capital Markets Awards, the group celebrates the technology suppliers in this fast-growing sector…
To Beat Financial Crime, Banks Need to Start Doing the Time
By Sean Vickers, Global Head of CLM, Delta Capita. When it comes to having the resources to fight financial crime – have banks ever had it so good? Think about it, not only has technology never been more sophisticated, but financial institutions can now call on armies of consultants to advise on compliance, not to…
LSEG and NVIDIA Accelerate Historical Market Data Analysis from Hours to Seconds
LSEG has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA that enables financial institutions to analyse years of historical tick data in seconds rather than hours, using GPU-accelerated processing technology. The initiative is designed to support increasingly data-intensive quantitative research, trading analytics and AI applications, while maintaining the licensing and access controls governing institutional market data. The collaboration…
Securitize Taps Solana, Jump and Others for Launch of On-chain US Equities
Securitize has launched Securitize Stocks bringing prominent US equities on chain for eligible investors in the US, EU and other permitted global jurisdictions. The tokenised asset platform, which accounts for around $5 billion in assets under management, designed the new securities to provide direct 1:1 backing by underlying shares, preserving traditional investor protections, dividends, and…
ClearToken Partners with Consensys for Blockchain Scale, Security and Privacy
Digital assets settlement provider ClearToken Group has partnered with Ethereum-centric protocols and infrastructure specialist Consensys to enable financial institutions access to an always-on platform that provides both the legal certainty and blockchain security and privacy required by wholesale markets participants. Says Ben Santos-Stephens, CEO of ClearToken: “Wholesale markets are embracing a diverse and growing ecosystem…
Greenwashing Data Shows Shift Towards Transition Industries
Greenwashing is on the rise again and shifting notably towards companies that are critical to net-zero investors, exposing assets to severe risk of regulatory and reputational damage. The latest data shows that the total number of incidents in which companies overstated their sustainability achievements or failed to keep to their pledges surged 28% in the…
Nasdaq Backs One Trading’s Push to Rethink Derivatives Market Infrastructure
Nasdaq Ventures’ strategic investment in One Trading, announced last week, could open the door to a different approach to derivatives market infrastructure, bringing technologies developed for digital asset trading into more traditional financial markets. The European regulated derivatives venue has built a platform that integrates execution, risk management and settlement, with an architecture designed to…
Modern Data Management Comes to Private Markets Rescue: Webinar Review
Private assets are firmly established as a major focus of financial institutions’ investment strategies, but many still struggle to apply the same technological rigour to their alternative portfolios as they do their allocations to public assets. This is through no fault of their own, and is almost entirely the result of the shortage of quality…
12 Sell-Side Data Management Platforms That are Transforming Capital Markets
Broker-dealers, investment banks and market makers are having to navigate mounting pressure from multi-asset fragmentation, compressed margins and increasingly stringent regulatory demands such as MiFID II and T+1 settlement cycles. Rather than executing sweeping, high-risk lift-and-shift overhauls, financial institutions are focusing on practical evolution: modernising data supply chains, unifying siloed front-to-back systems and replacing brittle…
From Interpretation to Scalable Application: What Year Two of the NAIC Principles-Based Bond Update Has Revealed
By Kate Lee, Global Head of Enterprise Regulatory Data, Bloomberg. Insurers have now spent much of 2026 applying the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) principles-based bond definition through its second reporting cycle and are quickly approaching year three of implementation. This rule was introduced to modernize statutory bond classification, replacing an approach that leaned…