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Deepening Digital Assets into “TradFi” Depends on Infrastructure Integration
By Marco Kessler, Head Product & Business Development, Digital Assets, SIX. Digital assets no longer sit as a separate asset class outside of capital markets. They have become a fully integrated part of “TradFi”. Over the past few years, the technologies that underpin crypto are now being integrated with the core financial plumbing of capital…
Circle Names Founding Validators for Arc Blockchain, Due 16th September
Stablecoin Issuer Circle has set 16th September as the launch date for its public Arc blockchain, and has named a set of blue chip digital assets players to be the first to run validators to secure the network. In addition to Circle itself, BlackRock, DTCC, Galaxy Digital, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI Group, Standard…
S&P Global QnA: Adaptive Retrieval Smooths Data Access and Use
S&P Global Market Intelligence launched Adaptive Retrieval last month, promising to give clients greater flexibility in accessing and using the ratings giant’s data via their large language models (LLMs) and agents. Complementing S&P Global’s existing Deterministic Retrieval tool, which is built on the Kensho LLM-ready API, the latest innovation enables users to query and make…
How AI is Reshaping the Data Office in Capital Markets: Webinar Review
A clear split has emerged between the sell-side and the buy-side in their approaches to enterprise data strategy, with banks adopting a more defensive posture and asset and wealth managers more aggressive in their pursuit of modern capabilities. The divergence was highlighted in a recent A-Team Research and Element 22 webinar, entitled “The Data Office…
AI is Reshaping the Build-Vs-Buy Tech and Data Question for Asset Managers
The traditional data technology build-vs-buy decision facing asset managers has been blurred by artificial intelligence. Not only has the technology made the “build” option faster to achieve and more affordable, it has also reframed the notion of where exactly the building happens. At the same time, the risks associated with AI’s inclusion in the equation…
AI May Well Be a Big Accelerator, But Let’s Not Forget the Destination
By Chris Livesey, Chief Executive of AutoRek Everyone’s racing to add AI to everything, but are we clear on the finishing line? Across the financial services software landscape, vendors and end-user customers are chasing a new goal: how fast they can AI-ify or agentify everything that moves to claim unique differentiation and plant a flag for their brand as a…
Industry Backs FCA AIFM Reform but Warns of Uneven Costs.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently proposed the biggest overhaul of the UK alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) regime since 2013. The projected benefits will depend on whether greater proportionality can reduce compliance overhead without shifting costs to smaller managers. The proposals in CP 26/28 replace the current distinction between full-scope and sub-threshold AIFMs with…
UBS AML Enforcement Exposes Underlying Data Weaknesses
A coordinated US enforcement action against UBS Financial Services has exposed how incomplete data feeds, faulty system configuration and weak customer-risk controls can undermine an automated anti-money laundering (AML) programme. FINRA found that UBS failed to monitor adequately more than 60,000 foreign-currency wires worth over $10 billion between January 2019 and June 2023. The deficiencies…
Facteus Expands Data Coverage with a Focus on Signal Continuity
As alternative data becomes more deeply embedded in investment research and quantitative models, the quality of a dataset is increasingly about more than its size. Coverage and granularity remain important, but so too does the ability to maintain a consistent, representative signal as underlying data sources and panels evolve. That challenge is central to the…
Multiplying the Value of Unstructured Data
Financial institutions have spent years expanding the range of data available to investment, trading and risk teams. Increasingly, however, the challenge is not obtaining more data but making sense of what they already have. Unstructured data is estimated to account for 80-90% of the information generated withinfinancial institutions, encompassing everything from regulatory filings and earnings-call…