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FinCEN Overhauls AML and CFT Rules with a New Effectiveness Standard
Published April 7, 2026, FinCEN’s latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) is a sweeping overhaul of anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) programmes, recasting them around effectiveness, risk-based design and the fight against illicit finance. “For too long, Washington has asked financial institutions to measure success by the volume of paperwork…
12 Companies Bridging Agentic AI and Data Management in Capital Markets
The friction inherent in mobilising data is a perennial problem for financial institutions, who have spent the last decade perfecting the passive data stack – investing heavily in cloud warehouses, governance frameworks and ETL pipelines designed to move data for human consumption. However, the operational reality remains plagued by manual intervention. Recent developments in agentic…
How Murex and Quant Network are Tackling the Tokenisation Operationalisation Gap
Tokenisation of real-world assets has crossed the $100 billion mark. DTCC has received SEC approval to tokenise real-world assets from mid-2026. BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and JPMorgan have live tokenised funds. The New York Stock Exchange is developing a blockchain-based venue for 24/7 trading of tokenised securities. And in the UK, a consortium of six major…
Post-Trade at a Crossroads: Re-Engineering the Infrastructure Behind Modern Markets
Post-trade infrastructure is entering a period of structural change unlike anything the industry has seen since the regulatory reform that followed the 2008 financial crisis. Settlement cycles are compressing, trading hours are extending toward continuous operation, cross-asset strategies are demanding unified lifecycle management, and the tokenisation of real-world assets is opening new possibilities for collateral…
Canoe and Bloomberg Advance Portfolio Analytics and Risk Workflows with Private Fund Data
Canoe Intelligence and Bloomberg have launched a certified integration designed to automate the delivery of private fund data into Bloomberg PORT Enterprise, addressing a long-standing operational challenge for asset owners managing portfolios across public and private markets. The integration is intended to reduce manual reporting and make private fund information more accessible within established portfolio…
S&P Global’s Private Markets Data Play: From Accidental Clearing House to Industry Platform
S&P Global, Cambridge Associates and Mercer have launched a joint private markets performance analytics product, the first commercial release from a collaboration announced last year. The initial datasets cover private credit and real assets, with private equity to follow later this year. For institutional data teams, what’s interesting about this launch isn’t so much the…
TNS Unifies Financial Markets Business Under Waypoint Brand
Two months after completing its acquisition of BT’s Radianz business, Transaction Network Services (TNS) has launched Waypoint Trading Solutions, a unified brand encompassing connectivity, low-latency trading infrastructure and managed market data operations. Waypoint Trading Solutions officially launched on 8th April, bringing together TNS’s existing financial markets capabilities with the Radianz extranet business it acquired from…
Nasdaq Positions Calypso as the Institutional Bridge for On-Chain/Off-Chain Collateral Convergence
Nasdaq is building a modular infrastructure ecosystem around its Calypso platform, positioning it as the institutional bridge between traditional and digital asset collateral workflows. A partnership with digital asset infrastructure provider Talos, announced in March, is the most recent in a sequence of coordinated initiatives – including a live integration with the Canton network and…
Alt Data’s New Competitive Edge: From Discovery to Synthesis
Has the alternative data industry crossed a maturity threshold? The competitive advantage has migrated from simply having access to novel datasets to building superior frameworks for combining them, and AI is the engine driving that shift. But as a panel of senior practitioners made clear at the recent A-Team/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference in New…
STS Digital and Haruko Integrate to Give Institutional Options Traders Unified Risk View
STS Digital, the regulated principal trading firm specialising in digital asset derivatives, has integrated with institutional portfolio management provider Haruko to deliver consolidated risk and position reporting for options traders. The integration allows institutional clients who trade vanilla and exotic options on STS Digital’s platform to view those positions on an aggregated basis alongside activity…