Precisely Configures MCP for SAP Workflow Automation Integration

Precisely has released its Automate Model Context Protocol Server and native OData support in Precisely Automate, enabling artificial intelligence assistants and applications to interact with SAP’s automation workflows through a standards-based interface while supporting specific architectural requirements.

The company said the MCP comes as organisations face pressure to move away from legacy scripting approaches toward standard application programming interface integrations as they modernise environments and expand AI adoption.

“Organisations shouldn’t have to choose between accelerating AI adoption today and preparing for tomorrow’s architecture,” said Ashwin Ramachandran, senior vice president of product management at Precisely.

The Model Context Protocol Server exposes existing scripts and workflows as artificial intelligence-callable tools, providing a standards-based connection to automation platforms.

This release builds on previous investments in MCP support across the portfolio to connect trusted data and automation workflows to artificial intelligence through open standards.

SimCorp Axioma Risk Software Adopted by Canada’s Fiera Capital

Asset manager Fiera Capital has selected SimCorp’s Axioma Risk software for risk analytics and portfolio construction.

The integration provides the Canada-based firm with risk management systems and factor models for investment strategies. Axioma Portfolio Optimizer assists investment teams to construct portfolios and align decisions with client objectives.

“With Axioma, Fiera Capital is strengthening how risk insights are embedded throughout the investment process,” said Allen Zimmerman, senior managing director and head of americas at SimCorp.

The company’s data shows that half of investment managers rank risk management among priorities within their technology strategy.

EY and Watershed Collaborate on Sustainability Metrics for Investors, Regulators

Sustainability artificial intelligence company Watershed has forged an Aliance with Ernst & Young to assist companies in measuring and reporting environmental impact to satisfy investor expectations and regulatory demands.

The collaboration pairs Watershed’s platform with EY’s advisory, implementation and programme management services.

Derek Przybylo, EY-Watershed Alliance Leader, EY US said: “The alliance… helps organisations move from their sustainability goals to measurable action. The EY-Watershed Alliance helps clients strengthen emissions measurement, automate reporting and build scalable sustainability solutions that support their decarbonization initiatives and regulatory readiness.”

The partnership delivers end-to-end support covering data collection, emissions measurement, product carbon footprint metrics and sustainability advisory services, the companies said.

The initiative builds on prior digital identity work with the CARIN Alliance, expanding client access to automated reporting and decarbonisation planning tools.

S&P Global’s Visible Alpha Now Accessible via MCP

S&P Global’s Visible Alpha data is now available through the S&P Global AI Data Portal, enabling artificial intelligence applications supporting the Model Context Protocol to access broker consensus estimates, financial line items and segment data directly.

The integration provides direct, structured query access to extract information from sell-side broker models.

Peter Licursi, Head of AI and Growth, Kensho Data & Platforms at S&P Global Market Intelligence said: “With Visible Alpha’s rich sell-side data now available through the S&P Global AI Data Portal, customers can move from a headline consensus figure to the drivers underneath it in a single query, with answers grounded in verifiable S&P Global data.

“Because it sits alongside our company intelligence and credit ratings data, customers can assess the market’s expectations, fundamentals and credit ratings information in the same workflow,” Licursi added.

Users can access this financial information through third-party platforms including GPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot. The update builds on previous launches within the portal, following the recent inclusion of credit ratings data and adaptive retrieval capabilities.

Texture, Obsidian Announce Tradecraft ATS on Canton Network

Broker-dealer Texture Capital and financial systems developer Obsidian Systems have announced the development of Tradecraft ATS, which is set to become the first US-regulated trading platform for tokenised securities built on the Canton Network. While Canton already supports asset issuance and settlement, this new venture introduces a fully regulated venue specifically designed for trading. Tradecraft ATS aims to bridge institutional finance with blockchain technology by featuring a continuous central limit order book that provides a transparent, “lit” display of the best available bids and asks.

The upcoming platform is engineered around institutional efficiency and security, offering tokenised equity, debt, and fund interests. A key innovation of Tradecraft ATS is its integration of atomic settlement against USDCx, meaning both the digital security and the cash move simultaneously within a single on-chain transaction to eliminate counterparty risk. Furthermore, the platform supports a strict self-custody model, ensuring that subscribers maintain full control of their securities and stablecoins in their own wallets right up until the exact moment of trade execution.

Kyckr Appoints Jack Rawden to Lead Expansion in Risk Intelligence and Perpetual KYB

Kyckr has appointed Jack Rawden as Head of Product to lead expansion across risk signals, registry intelligence and perpetual know your business (KYB). His remit includes developing products to address data quality, verification friction and fragmented access to company registers, which the provider identifies as challenges for regulated firms onboarding business customers.

Rawden brings more than 15 years’ experience building product teams in regulated environments. He was previously Chief Product Officer at Detected, where he led development of its KYB platform, and Head of Product at Fraudfinder. At Kyckr, he will oversee a programme intended to expand the company’s product offering across the three areas.

The appointment follows Kyckr’s State of Onboarding 2026 research, which the company says identified data quality, verification friction and fragmented registry access as regulated firms’ biggest onboarding challenges. Kyckr links its expansion plans to demand for live, verified sources of business information and pressure on firms to move beyond static, third-party data.

Kyckr connects regulated firms to live company and beneficial ownership data from more than 300 official company and beneficial ownership registers worldwide. The planned product expansion builds on that registry coverage. The announcement identifies risk signals, registry intelligence and perpetual KYB as priorities but does not provide individual product specifications or a release timetable.

Steve Lamb, CEO of Kyckr, said: “For our customers, this means greater expertise and experience being brought to our product development, and an expansion of the risk intelligence and KYB solutions that directly address the pain points of friction and fragmented data access.”

Rawden’s appointment continues changes to Kyckr’s senior team following Lamb’s appointment as CEO in August 2025 and Ian Jones’s appointment as Chief Technology Officer in early 2026. The company says it has significantly increased investment in Product and Engineering over the past twelve months, with further hires planned.

Rawden said: “With the mounting pressure on businesses to overhaul onboarding processes, there’s real scope to add value and simplicity for our customers, and I can’t wait to get started.”

SOLVE Previews New Issue Monitor for Structured Credit Markets

SOLVE has unveiled New Issue Monitor, a new capability within its SOLVE Quotes platform that combines structured credit primary market deal information with secondary market pricing and trading data.

Previewed at the ABS East conference in Miami, the solution enables portfolio managers, traders and analysts to track new issues from announcement through bookbuilding and pricing, alongside existing secondary market quotes. Users can monitor individual deals and tranches, track pricing developments and filter opportunities by deal size, weighted average life, credit enhancement and structure. The platform also provides saved views and aggregated summaries of deal activity. New Issue Monitor will offer coverage of structured credit deals from announcement, with 60 days of historical deal information available at release.

The integration builds on SOLVE Quotes’ existing machine learning and natural language processing capabilities, which process more than 30 million fixed income quotes daily, including coverage of over 150,000 structured product securities.

tZERO Secures CFTC Clearing Approval to Expand into Derivatives Infrastructure

tZERO Group has received approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to register its subsidiary, tZERO DCO, as a derivatives clearing organisation, extending its regulated market infrastructure beyond securities and tokenised assets. The company expects approval of its separate designated contract market (DCM) registration to follow, enabling it to develop exchange and clearing services for derivatives, subject to further regulatory and operational requirements.

Potential products include event contracts, conventional and tokenised derivatives, perpetual futures and other cryptocurrency-linked instruments, subject to applicable product approvals.

The expansion forms part of tZERO’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service strategy, providing institutional clients with modular trading, clearing and settlement capabilities across multiple asset classes. The new clearinghouse will manage counterparty credit risk and support derivatives settlement, while the planned exchange will provide trading infrastructure. Together, these capabilities are intended to support institutional firms developing multi-asset offerings through integrated and white-label solutions.

Plus500 Agrees to Acquire Brazilian Broker-Dealer Guru to Expand Latin American Operations

Plus500 has conditionally agreed to acquire Brazilian broker-dealer Guru Corretora de Títulos e Valores Mobiliários, establishing a regulated local presence in Latin America’s largest economy and expanding its regional trading operations. Guru is regulated by the Central Bank of Brazil and the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM).

The acquisition will provide Plus500 with local market access and regulatory infrastructure to develop trading services covering Brazilian equities, futures, options and fixed income securities. The transaction builds on Plus500’s existing partnership with Brazilian trading technology provider Nelogica and its recent entry into Colombia. It also supports plans to provide Latin American customers with access to US derivatives markets.

The acquisition will be funded from existing cash resources and remains subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. The agreement follows Plus500’s recently announced acquisition of US broker-dealer Hedge Capital Markets, extending its multi-asset expansion strategy across the Americas.

B2PRIME Expands Tier-1 Liquidity Access and Institutional Trading Infrastructure

B2PRIME Group has expanded its institutional liquidity infrastructure, securing additional capacity with its Tier-1 prime broker and extending relationships with major banks and financial institutions to support larger trading volumes and more complex execution requirements.

The expansion strengthens B2PRIME’s prime-of-prime offering through a broader network of banking and non-bank liquidity providers, enabling the construction of customised liquidity streams for institutional clients. Its upgraded aggregation architecture accommodates different order book depths, execution parameters and pricing formats, allowing liquidity configurations to be tailored to individual trading strategies, ticket sizes and latency requirements.

B2PRIME has also enhanced its execution-quality monitoring, incorporating markout analysis and price-movement detection alongside metrics covering fill ratios, slippage, rejection rates and response times. The company reports improved executable depth, tighter spreads across FX and precious metals, and greater price stability across trading sessions.

The expanded offering is available to eligible institutional clients through FIX API and established trading connectivity platforms.