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Trading South Africa’s Financial Markets – Technology Considerations, Challenges and Opportunities
The Republic of South Africa (RSA) stands apart from many other African nations, in that it benefits from a mature, well-structured and dynamic financial market environment, supported by modern technology, and backed by robust regulations. And despite various global and domestic challenges and uncertain macroeconomic conditions, the country has managed to maintain a strong growth…
DTCC Agrees to Acquire Blockchain-Based Financial Technology Firm Securrency Inc.
DTCC, the financial markets infrastructure provider, has announced its agreement to acquire Securrency Inc., a developer of institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure. By merging industry best practices with cutting-edge digital technology, the move aims to further the institutional acceptance and integration of digital assets. “Securrency is an important strategic acquisition that will give us the technology…
Moody’s and Google Cloud Partner to Build Large Language Models and Generative AI Apps
Moody’s Corporation and Google Cloud have made a strategic partnership to explore a combination of Moody’s expertise in financial analysis and Google Cloud’s generative AI (gen AI) technologies to help Moody’s customers and employees use large language models (LLMs) to gain financial insights and summarise financial data faster. This is Moody’s second key partnership on…
Mackenzie Investments Selects Bloomberg to Manage ESG data
Mackenzie Investments, a large Canadian investment management firm, has selected Bloomberg to manage its ESG data. The data vendor’s cloud-based Data License Plus (DL+) ESG Manager will be used to host the acquisition, management and publishing of multi-vendor ESG data, allowing the firm to implement ESG investing approaches more efficiently and develop more sophisticated ESG-focused…
FinScan Combines Data Quality Experience with Technological Expertise to Deliver Agile AML Solution
FinScan has combined experience in data quality with technological expertise in screening to provide an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) solution designed to help financial institutions develop more efficient AML programmes that generate fewer false positives and support better detection of true alerts. The company is part of Pittsburgh-based Innovative Systems, which was founded in 1968 and…
Interoperability and Standardization Are Key to Unlocking the Potential of Tokenization
Driven by a demand for more efficient liquidity management and cost-savings, the value of the asset tokenization market is expected to reach $16 trillion by 2030. Todd McDonald, Co-Founder, and Chief Strategy Officer at R3, outlines the factors driving the growth of tokenization and how financial institutions can make the most of this opportunity. Tokenization is the…
Euronext Launches ‘First of-its-kind’ Exchange-based ESG Tool
Europe-wide market provider Euronext is ready to launch a “first of its kind” ESG tool providing comprehensive data, free of charge, to the market. The company’s My ESG Profile is now available to listed companies, before its public release scheduled mid-November. Issuers are currently in the process of reviewing the data collected by Euronext, and…
Meritsoft Unveils Advanced Platform for Post-Trade Process Automation
Meritsoft, a subsidiary of Cognizant that specialises in post-trade process automation, has launched its next-generation technology platform offering advanced post-trade process automation capabilities. Built using the latest technologies, the new platform aims to deliver operational efficiency gains and cost optimisation opportunities by better supporting firms’ post-trade processing requirements across fails management, financial transaction taxes (FTTs),…
Fenics Partners with ZE PowerGroup to Distribute Energy and Commodities Market Data
In a strategic move, Fenics Market Data, a division of BGC Group, Inc., has partnered with data integration and analytics platform provider ZE PowerGroup, to offer its energy and commodities pricing data to clients through ZEMA, ZE’s data management solution. The initiative will further boost BGC’s energy and commodities services, following in the wake of…
Canoe Intelligence Releases Data Innovation Hub for Alternative Investments Market
Canoe Intelligence, a financial technology company providing data management for the alternatives industry, has released the Canoe Data Innovation Hub and Canoe Asset Data Design Partnership, initiatives that go hand-in-hand to offer greater data granularity at both fund and asset level data. The solutions respond to client demand for access to asset-level data to solve…