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Building Trust in AI: An Imperative for Widespread Adoption
By Anshuman Prasad, Global Head of Risk Analytics, CRISIL. As large language models (LLMs) continue to surprise there is a clamour to adopt AI in a more meaningful fashion across the financial services sector, where machine learning was previously accessible only in rarefied tech or quant circles. From algorithmic trading to predictive analytics and chatbots,…
Trayport and Montel Group Collaborate to Boost Transparency in Green Energy Trading
Trayport Limited, the primary network and platform for European wholesale energy markets and a subsidiary of TMX Group, is to integrate the Montel Marketplace into Trayport’s Joule platform. This integration will enable users of Joule to trade Guarantees of Origin (GOs) on the publicly accessible Montel Marketplace platform. GOs, certificates that provide proof that a…
Colt Technology Services Partners with AsiaNext to Boost Digital Asset Trading in Asia
Digital infrastructure provider Colt Technology Services (Colt) has entered into a strategic alliance with AsiaNext, the global institutional-grade digital asset exchange. The partnership will allow AsiaNext to take advantage of Colt’s advanced digital infrastructure solutions, including its Multicast Market Data in the Cloud and PrizmNet, and will enable high frequency trading across a range of…
Trading Technologies to Acquire Abel Noser Solutions, Expanding into Multi-Asset Data and Analytics
Following its recent expansion into the foreign exchange (FX) market with the establishment of a new FX business line, TT FX, and its entry into the fixed income space with the acquisition of AxeTrading in March, Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), the global capital markets technology platform provider, has entered into a definitive agreement to…
DTCC Pulls Out of LEI Issuance with Closure of GMEI Utility – Bloomberg and LSE Expected Beneficiaries
DTCC has closed its Global Markets Entity Identifier (GMEI) utility and will no longer issue Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) as a Local Operating Unit (LOU) in the Global LEI System. In a notice to GMEI clients, DTCC said the utility, operated by DTCC subsidiary and accredited LOU Business Entity Data B.V., terminated all its LEI…
TNS Partners with TRAFiX to Enhance Order Execution and Routing Management Systems in Canada
Transaction Network Services (TNS), the infrastructure, connectivity, market data and analytic services provider, has announced a strategic partnership with trading and connectivity solutions provider TRAFiX. The collaboration aims to expand TRAFiX’s order execution and routing management systems on TNS’ Dedicated Server across Canadian financial exchanges. TRAFiX will operate out of the Equinix TR2 Data Center…
Webinar Preview: Empowering Asset Managers and Owners with ESG Solutions for Net Zero Transformation
Decarbonising the atmosphere is the defining goal of the environmental movement, and one that financial institutions are playing a vital role in achieving. They are working towards meeting targets set over the next 25-40 years of reaching a state in which the net amount of carbon released into the atmosphere by economic activity is zero….
Start-Up C-More Sets Sights on Ambitious SME Database
A Portuguese sustainability management software provider has set itself the daunting task of compiling a database that will eventually provide a base level of ESG information on every small business in the world. Lisbon-based start-up C-More has created a platform that helps small and midsize companies assess their own ESG maturity and learn how to improve their performance and…
A New Era of Bond Trading: Leveraging Automation and Liquidity Score Splitting
By Vuk Magdelinic, CEO, Overbond. Bond traders face a set of challenges not seen in most other markets for tradeable securities. There’s no comprehensive centralized record of fixed income trade price or size data because most bonds are traded over-the-counter. Additionally, many bond issues are small and trade infrequently or not at all. As a…
DSB Adds Option to Use Alternative Underlier Ids to Search for or Create UPIs
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) continues to prepare for the production launch of the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) on 16 October 2023 with an option for users of the UPI User Acceptance Test (UAT) environment to search for and create UPIs using a range of alternative underlier IDs. The alternative underlier ID feature allows firms…