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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…
Zema Global Expands OTC Energy Data Coverage Through Arrow Energy Markets Partnership
Zema Global has partnered with London-based energy brokerage and market data provider Arrow Energy Markets (AEM) to expand access to over-the-counter (OTC) energy and freight market data through its Decisioning Infrastructure platform. The agreement adds broker-sourced market intelligence covering major global trading centres, extending Zema’s offering for commodity traders, risk managers and financial institutions. Under…
RegTech Summit New York: AI Agents and Prediction Markets Face the Compliance Test
A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit New York returns on 19 November for its tenth year, bringing the RegTech community together with regulators and practitioners to examine the latest in AI deployment and market integrity. Recent news highlights evolving AI policies across Tier-1 firms with Goldman Sachs restricting certain AI coding tools for bankers and traders, while…
Missing Signals: FCA Exposes Interconnected Control Failures at Wholesale Banks
At one wholesale bank, a coding defect prevented data from reaching a financial-crime control. The control’s continued operation offered no assurance that it was monitoring the complete population. The bank’s data monitoring and completeness checks also failed to expose the omission. Unrelated activity eventually brought the gap to light. This example sits at the centre…
Bloomberg Sees Sell-Side EMS Evolving into Central Control Plane for Electronic Trading
The role of the execution management system (EMS) in sell-side trading is expanding as banks seek to modernise their technology infrastructure while retaining control over proprietary pricing models, algorithms and analytics. Increasingly, the EMS is becoming a central control plane through which these capabilities can be integrated into electronic trading workflows, allowing firms to introduce…
How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Trading Desktop Interoperability
As banks and investment firms look to bring agentic AI into trading operations, the challenge is increasingly one of architecture: how to give AI access to the applications and context it needs while maintaining control over its actions. HERE, the financial desktop technology provider formerly known as OpenFin, recently held sessions with tier-one banks and…
Nosible Moves Beyond Event Data with Point-in-Time Global Intelligence Graph
Nosible, the AI-driven alternative data provider, has launched World V2.0, an enhanced global event database designed to help institutional investors extract structured intelligence from the vast quantities of unstructured information published online. The release also underpins Atlas, the company’s recently introduced knowledge graph, which connects organisations, individuals, products and locations through historically traceable relationships. The…
ESG Ratings Use Seen in Decline But AI, Increased Regulation Could Lift Their Popularity
ESG ratings still play an important part in investors’ due diligence processes, but they are no longer among the leading sources of information guiding their decisions, a recent survey has concluded. Increased scrutiny of ratings agencies by regulators and government bodies, as well as improved means of gathering ESG data, mainly through the use of…
73 Strings’ Structured Data ‘By-Product’ Fuels Workflow Acceleration After Callisto Acquisition
French startup 73 Strings realised a couple of years ago that one of the by-products of its valuation platform was a trove of structured, standardised and consistently labelled data drawn from private markets. This, reasoned Chief Executive and Co-Founder Yann Magnan, was financial gold in a part of the financial sector that has traditionally been…
Ahead of Tokenised Securities Trading, NYSE Expands Roster of Authorised Transfer Agents
In preparation for the launch of its tokenised security trading platform and affiliate venue, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has expanded the roster of companies authorised to provide transfer agent services for digital assets. Joining Securitize and tZERO, which have already entered into agreements with the NYSE, are Broadridge Financial Solutions, Computershare, Equiniti and…