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The Impact of The Move to T+1: What to Look Out for
By Sandeep Sabnani, Head of Equities Product Strategy and Growth at ION Markets. The shift to T+1 settlement over the past few years has occupied the minds of front office and trading desks across equity markets globally. Earlier this year, India became the first major economy to fully introduce T+1, following a phased approach, while…
Basel Committee to Seek More Data Under Climate-Risk Disclosure Proposal
Banks may be expected to disclose detailed data on their exposure to climate risks under new proposals by the banking standards-setter, despite its expressed concern over the suitability of current datasets. The Bank of International Settlements’ Basel Committee has published its outline approach to protecting lenders and investors from the channelling of funds to potentially…
2023 in Review: The Rise of the Machines
Artificial intelligence (AI) seemed to take on a life of its own in 2023. ChatGPT, the large language model-based (LLM) generative AI (GenAI), grabbed headlines with horror stories of hallucinations and doomy sci-fi predictions of lost jobs and machines running wild over humanity. Most ignored the fact that AI in its various forms had been…
CUSIP Global Services Partners BeZero to Create Unique Identifiers for Carbon Credits
CUSIP Global Services, a provider of securities identification across capital markets, has partnered ratings agency BeZero Carbon to create identifiers for carbon credits. Unique CUSIP identifiers will be assigned to carbon credit projects listed on the major registries across the voluntary carbon market (VCM). This will make carbon credit trading more efficient as the market…
Moody’s Gen AI Research Assistant Offers New Insights from Research, Data and Analytics
Moody’s has released Moody’s Research Assistant, a search and analytical tool powered by generative AI and using the company’s proprietary content and the latest large language models (LLMs) to help customers generate new insights from its credit research, data, and analytics. The research assistant synthesises vast amounts of information allowing users to assess lending or…
As Good as it Looks: Why UI/UX Design Has Become a Crucial Ingredient in Retail Platforms’ Success
By Matt Barrett, CEO of Adaptive. We are told not to judge a book by its cover. Yet we are naturally drawn to content and platforms that, on the surface, stand out from the crowd. When quality design is the norm, as is increasingly the case in our digital world, customers’ expectations of exceptional user experience…
Planixs Releases Realiti Insights for Regulatory, Risk Analysis
Planixs, which provides cash, collateral and liquidity management solutions, has launched Realiti Insights, a data and analytics service that helps financial institutions identify threats and opportunities from their regulatory, risk and business information. Realiti Insights allows senior management and operational teams to interrogate disparate data sets using an intuitive user interface that allows access to…
Overbond and interop.io Partner to Enhance Fixed Income Trading Workflows
Overbond, the fixed income data, analytics and trade automation solutions provider, has partnered with interoperability specialist Interop.io, to improve fixed income trader workflows through FDC3 interoperability. The partnership aims to address the prevalent challenges of data silos and liquidity fragmentation in the credit markets, by enabling clients to integrate various applications and features into one…
Aquis Becomes First Recognised Investment Exchange to Run Cloud-Based Matching Engine
Aquis Exchange PLC has successfully migrated the primary and secondary markets of Aquis Stock Exchange to Amazon Web Services (AWS), marking it as the first recognised investment exchange (RIE) to run a matching engine in production on the cloud. Since 27th November 2023, the group’s Aquis Stock Exchange division has been matching trades on all…
Crédit Agricole CIB Implements Opensee’s Advanced Market Risk Management Platform
Opensee, the specialist data analytics platform for financial institutions, has successfully rolled out a new market risk management solution for the front office users of Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank (CACIB). The new solution consolidates multiple data sets from varied sources into a single repository, rather than the previously segregated systems used for each…