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FCA Multi-Firm Review on Off-Channel Communications: Implications and Next Steps
By Paul Cottee, Director, Regulatory Compliance, NICE Actimize. The UK’s financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), recently published the results of its multi-firm review into off-channel communications within wholesale banking. Off-channel communications, in this context, refer to any professional communication that occurs outside of the firm’s approved channels, such as personal emails, instant messages,…
AI Personalization in Trading: Where We Are and Where We’re Heading
Ivan Kunyankin, Data Science Team Lead at Devexperts. AI may have started out its brokerage career in back-office, enhancing operational efficiency by providing human teams with actionable client insights, but it’s now being promoted to more sensitive client-facing roles. As AI tools continue to evolve and become normalized in more areas of daily life, financial…
Platform-Led Strategies for Solving Market Data Fragmentation, Cost and Governance Challenges
For any Chief Data Officer or Head of Trading Technology, the line item for market data is both one of the largest and most complex to manage. The challenge is no longer simply about plumbing feeds into applications. It is a strategic imperative to control spiralling costs, integrate a chaotic mix of traditional and alternative…
ISDA Finds GenAI Highly Accurate in Contracts Process but Stresses Need for Good Data
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has found that a range of generative artificial intelligence models can achieve a very high level of accuracy in extracting and standardising contract details into digital form. The findings suggest that AI can be deployed to reduce time and resources as well as risks when processing data within…
Modern Data Platforms Empower Critical Use Cases: Webinar Preview
No longer is it enough for financial institutions to be simply “on top” of their data management architecture. They need to be constantly looking for the next innovation to keep them ahead of the game in this fast-moving space. That’s why modern data management platforms are the focus of so many organisations at the moment….
Monaco Protocol Launches With Hybrid Architecture to Bring “Wall Street-Grade” Execution to DeFi
Monaco, a new decentralised trading protocol, has officially launched on the Sei blockchain, aiming to provide institutional-grade infrastructure for the burgeoning tokenised asset market, which is projected to reach $30 trillion by 2034. The protocol, incubated by Sei Labs and Monaco Research, introduces a hybrid trading model it claims can achieve “microsecond execution” on par…
Global Regulators Turn Up Heat on Exaggerated AI Claims
Supervisors on both sides of the Atlantic are no longer content with soft warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) hype. From the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to the United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the direction of travel is clear: say what you do, do what you say – and prove it. Regulators…
EU’s AMLA Sets Stage for Direct Supervision of High-Risk Cross-Border Banks
The EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA – the Authority)) moved from concept to reality in summer 2025 as it began operations in Frankfurt. The Authority has a mandate to drive supervisory convergence, coordinate Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) and, from 2028, directly supervise a set of high-risk, cross-border financial institutions. The EU Anti Money Laundering…
Digital Asset and Consortium Claim Industry First with 24/7 On-Chain Treasury Financing
Digital Asset, alongside a powerful consortium of financial institutions including Bank of America, Citadel Securities, and DTCC, has announced the successful completion of what it calls a ground-breaking, fully on-chain financing transaction. The trade, executed on Tradeweb, involved the real-time financing of tokenised U.S. Treasuries (UST) against the USDC stablecoin on the Canton Network. Conducted…
Beeks Moves Up the Stack with Market Edge Intelligence Launch
Cloud and connectivity provider Beeks Financial Cloud Group has launched Market Edge Intelligence, an AI-driven analytics solution designed to deliver trading insights directly at the network edge, marking a significant strategic expansion from infrastructure into data intelligence. The new solution aims to solve what the firm calls a “visibility gap” for trading participants. It uses…