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FCA Rings the Bell for PISCES – A New Market for Private Company Shares
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES). Announced as an innovative sandbox initiative, PISCES represents a significant evolution in the structure and accessibility of private company shares, through periodic trading events under a tailored regulatory environment. Designed as a five-year pilot, the initiative seeks to test…
Calero Integrates with LSEG Refinitiv to Streamline Market Data Entitlements
Calero, the technology business management solutions provider, has introduced API integration and eBonding capabilities with LSEG’s Refinitiv Data Platform (Hosted). The integration is designed to automate market data entitlement management, replacing processes that have traditionally relied on manual data entry, phone calls, and emails. The move comes as financial institutions face mounting pressure to modernize…
Regulations in the Balance as Institutions Remain Sustainability-Focussed: ESG Summit London Review
Despite a perception that ESG is in retreat around the world, financial institutions continue to take the issue very seriously as a matter of risk management, a trend that continues to exert an influence on the data demands of organisations. It isn’t even the compliance imperatives of organisations operating in heavily regulated parts of the…
Making the Most of Mainframe Structured Data: Webinar Preview
Mainframes still provide the data and computational backbone of many financial institutions but some organisations are encountering challenges as they try to integrate them with newer architectures. Many are incompatible with cloud and server-based architectures as well as APIs. Work-arounds can be achieved but they require middleware that can be costly and time consuming to…
Data Standards Bring Many Gains (If You Have the Right Setup): Webinar Review
Standards and identifiers are helping to improve the quality of data used by capital market participants, but organisations with legacy architectures are finding it challenging to capitalise on those benefits, according to polls by A-Team Group. Half of respondents to surveys held during a recent A-Team Group Data Management Insight webinar said that data standardisation…
AI is Helping to Solve New ESG Data Challenges: ESG Briefing Review
The peculiar demands that ESG data integration places on capital markets participants requires powerful techniques that are increasingly being provided through artificial intelligence, A-Team Group’s recent ESG Data and Tech Briefing London heard. From data quality monitoring and analytics to supply chain analysis and investment management, AI-based tools are already offering automated solutions to some…
Why Implementing Digital Regulatory Reporting is Vital for Compliance
The regulatory burden is increasing year on year and with the mounting threat of fines, financial firms must ensure compliance. Leo Labeis, CEO of REGnosys, explores how firms can implement digital regulatory reporting properly to help and ensure future competitiveness. Financial Institutions face mounting pressure to stay compliant with significant regulatory rewrites across Europe, Japan,…
Are Financial Infrastructures Ready for Round-the-Clock Trading?
Sergei Samushin, Head of Exchange Solutions, Devexperts. Financial markets are increasingly moving to incorporate longer trading hours. Whether it be pre-and post-market availability extending the traditional trading day, or 24/5 overnight trading in stocks, futures, and ETFs, the trend is clear. The progressive shortening of settlement cycles across jurisdictions is further evidence of this. There’s…
LTX Launches BondGPT Intelligence to Deepen AI Integration in Bond Trading Workflows
LTX, the AI-powered corporate bond trading platform backed by Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., has launched BondGPT Intelligence, a new capability that embeds generative AI directly into the trading workflow. The functionality is designed to anticipate users’ needs in real time and deliver targeted insights without requiring them to leave the platform. According to Jim Kwiatkowski,…
SOLVE Launches AI-Powered Pricing Tool for Corporate Bond Market
SOLVE, the fixed income data and pricing solutions provider, has launched of SOLVE Px, an AI-driven pricing tool for the high-yield (HY) and investment-grade (IG) corporate bond markets. The new tool delivers predictive, trade-level pricing across more than 100,000 corporate bonds, supporting fixed income professionals operating in often illiquid and fast-moving markets. Built on machine…