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Data as a Product: From Collection to Control in Modern Markets
For much of the past decade, data strategy in capital markets focused on accumulation. Firms invested heavily in market data feeds, alternative datasets, data lakes, and analytics platforms. Yet despite this abundance, many organisations have still struggled to answer basic operational questions with confidence, particularly during periods of market stress. The problem is no longer…
Banks Should Optimise Collateral in 2026 to Lay the Groundwork for Greater Efficiency and Innovation
By James Pike, Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Strategy, Taskize. Collateral teams have been tested in 2025. Banks have weathered multiple bouts of high volatility, including the fallout from ‘Liberation Day’ and sell-offs over fears of a possible AI bubble. Sharp spikes in volatility across multiple asset classes have the potential to disrupt collateral…
From Silos to Sequencers: Why Core Trading Architectures Are Being Rewritten for 24/7 Markets
The most consequential changes facing financial markets technology in 2026 will not be driven by new asset classes or incremental latency gains, but by a fundamental rethinking of how trading systems are architected at their core. For decades, market participants have organised technology around functional silos: execution, risk, middle office, post-trade. These boundaries were reinforced…
smartTrade’s kACE Acquisition Signals the Next Phase of FX Derivatives Automation
smartTrade’s agreement to acquire kACE Financial from BGC Group underscores a decisive shift in institutional FX trading technology, as the market moves beyond connectivity-led platforms toward deeper pricing intelligence, derivatives automation, and converged front-office workflows. Under the terms of the transaction, kACE is valued at up to $119 million, comprising an initial $80 million payment…
What an Actimize Sale Might Mean for Surveillance and FinCrime Technology
When news emerged that NICE is preparing to sell its Actimize division – long regarded as one of the most established full-stack platforms for financial crime, fraud, and surveillance – the immediate headlines focused on valuation. With reports suggesting a price in the range of US$1.5–2 billion, the deal would be one of the RegTech…
Eventus and IC360 Form Strategic Alliance to Build Integrity Framework for Prediction Markets
Prediction markets have entered a phase of rapid commercial expansion, regulatory scrutiny, and institutional attention. What began as a niche segment centred on retail speculation has evolved into a serious market structure discussion; one that blends characteristics of sports betting, digital assets, and traditional exchange-traded instruments. As liquidity rises and new venues emerge, so too…
ClearToken Launches FCA-Regulated Settlement Service to Modernise Institutional Digital Asset Trading
ClearToken, the digital financial market infrastructure firm, has officially launched CT Settle, a new multi-currency settlement service designed to address the fragmentation, risk, and capital inefficiency currently challenging the institutional digital asset market. The UK-based company announced that the platform is now live, having successfully completed its first settlement cycle involving netted cryptoasset and fiat…
Bank of England Targets ‘Critical Data Gaps’ in New $16 Trillion Private Markets Stress Test
The Bank of England (BoE) has launched its second System-Wide Exploratory Scenario (SWES) exercise, turning its regulatory lens toward the opaque and rapidly expanding private markets ecosystem. Following its initial SWES exercise, which focused on gilts and corporate bond markets, the central bank is now targeting the “critical data gaps” inherent in private equity (PE)…
Europe’s Fixed Income Revolution: How NLPs and Automation are Redefining the Bond Market
For years, the electronification of European fixed-income markets was a slow-burning fuse, lit primarily by the transparency mandates of MiFID II. However, the landscape is now shifting dramatically. No longer just a regulatory compliance exercise, the structural change in Europe’s government bond and credit markets is gaining genuine momentum, driven by the arrival of aggressive…
New Issue IQ and Boltzbit Partner to Slash Bond Issuance Data Processing Time by 74%
New Issue IQ, the solutions vendor dedicated to modernising primary bond markets, has announced a strategic partnership with deeptech AI company Boltzbit, to optimise the processing of new bond deal information. The collaboration reportedly delivers a processing-time improvement of approximately 74% by automating workflows that have traditionally been manual and fragmented. Through this integration, New…