Abrigo Acquires 360 View for CRM Incorporation

Compliance and lending software provider Abrigo has acquired 360 View, incorporating the London-based company’s customer relationship management and marketing automation tools.

The acquisition follows a series of investments by the company, which serves financial institutions, to integrate customer data with risk management and lending solutions.

Raleigh, North Carolina-based Abrigo’s chief executive Jay Blandford said that the 360 View capabilities would transform customer data into actionable intelligence.

“Financial institutions are looking for smarter, more practical ways to grow,” Blandford said. “These capabilities will build on our holistic approach to data analytics – an important part of our corporate strategy – to better serve customers in an increasingly competitive banking market. Together, we will help banks and credit unions move from fragmented data to a cohesive approach and measurable results.”

The modular platform includes referral tracking, automated onboarding and portfolio-level profitability insights.

Solidatus Unveils Agentic AI Assistant for Data Lineage

Solidatus has launched the Solidatus AI Lineage Assistant, deploying agentic artificial intelligence to automate the creation and maintenance of data maps across enterprise estates.

The tool addresses regulatory requirements such as BCBS 239 and the EU AI Act by documenting data movement and transformations.
Philip Dutton, founder and chief executive of the data lineage software provider, said that the assistant enables teams to move at the speed regulators demand without sacrificing human oversight and accountability.

“Regulators and boards increasingly expect organisations to demonstrate not just what decisions were made, but exactly what data underpinned them, where that data came from, how it was transformed and whether it can be trusted,” said Dutton. “Delivering that level of evidence at the speed modern enterprises require means rethinking how lineage is built and maintained. Approaches that combine AI-driven automation with human validation are emerging as the practical path forward for producing lineage that is fast to generate and defensible under scrutiny.”

The software ingests unstructured documentation, including legacy spreadsheets and images, to generate queryable records and audit trails.

ACA Expands Cross-Asset Transaction Cost Analysis with FXT Acquisition

ACA Group has acquired foreign exchange analytics specialist FX Transparency (FXT), extending its capabilities in transaction cost analysis (TCA) and best-execution monitoring within the FX market.

The move follows ACA’s 2025 acquisition of Global Trading Analytics (GTA), which marked the firm’s initial expansion into TCA across equities, fixed income, derivatives and foreign exchange. With the addition of FXT, ACA deepens its coverage in FX — one of the largest and most liquid global markets, but also one where execution quality can be difficult for institutional investors to assess.

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, FXTT has developed a reputation for independent, data-driven analysis of FX execution. Its analytics draw on a substantial repository of institutional trading data to help asset managers, pension funds, endowments, mutual funds, insurance companies and corporations evaluate trading performance and demonstrate fiduciary oversight.

The acquisition strengthens ACA’s broader push to combine governance, risk and compliance (GRC) expertise with trading analytics. As regulatory expectations around best execution continue to tighten across multiple jurisdictions, firms are under increasing pressure to demonstrate how they source liquidity, evaluate counterparties and measure execution quality across asset classes.

In foreign exchange markets, those demands can be particularly complex. Fragmented liquidity, varied execution methodologies and the decentralized market structure mean institutional investors increasingly rely on specialised analytics to evaluate trading outcomes and benchmark counterparty performance.

“The acquisition of FX Transparency represents a deliberate next step in building a best-in-class, cross-asset TCA platform,” said Patrick Olson, CEO of ACA Group. “Following our successful acquisition of GTA, we identified FXT as a complementary platform that brings recognized FX expertise, a strong institutional client base, and differentiated analytics that enhance our ability to support clients’ transaction cost analysis and best execution needs.”

FX Transparency’s leadership sees the deal as a way to extend its analytics capabilities within a broader governance and compliance framework.

“Joining ACA enables us to continue delivering the high-quality foreign exchange analytics our clients expect, now supported by ACA’s global operating resources and broad GRC expertise. Together, we can provide a comprehensive TCA solution that addresses the evolving needs of global institutional investors,” said John Galanek, Co-Founder and CEO of FX Transparency.

As institutional investors face growing scrutiny around trading transparency and fiduciary accountability, cross-asset analytics platforms that combine market data, execution analysis and compliance oversight are becoming core components in the GRC toolkit.

FinScan and Nexus AML Partner to Scale Data-First AML Operations

Financial institutions have long invested heavily in transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and KYC controls, yet many compliance teams continue to confront a more fundamental obstacle: the quality of the data that feeds those systems. Poorly structured or incomplete customer and transaction data can generate large volumes of alerts and manual investigation work, stretching already pressured financial crime teams.

Against this backdrop, Innovative Systems’ FinScan has entered into a strategic partnership with Nexus AML aimed at addressing the operational bottleneck at the front end of AML programmes: data readiness. The collaboration brings together FinScan’s data cleansing and sanctions-screening technology with Nexus AML’s outsourced financial crime operations, reflecting a growing industry emphasis on “data-first” compliance architectures.

Operational pressure linked to data quality is widely recognised across the sector. In a FinScan poll of 550 compliance professionals, 59% reported that data quality consumes most of their time – highlighting the extent to which AML teams are still managing downstream consequences of upstream data issues.

The partnership is designed to address that imbalance by combining automated data preparation with operational expertise in clearing and managing alerts. Institutions working with Nexus AML will be able to integrate FinScan’s real-time data cleansing and screening technology, which targets sanctions, watchlists and payment flows, with the aim of reducing unnecessary alerts and improving the accuracy of screening results. In parallel, organisations using FinScan’s technology will be able to access Nexus AML’s operational support services to help manage investigation workloads and maintain compliance processes during periods of heightened activity.

Deborah Overdeput, Chief Operating Officer at Innovative Systems, framed the collaboration around the operational foundations of AML programmes. “FinScan and Nexus AML share the belief that financial crime compliance must be both operationally scalable and strategically grounded in high-quality, compliance-ready data,” she said. “Our partnership brings together two complementary strengths: operational excellence in clearing and investigating alerts, and a data-first screening approach that reduces those alerts in the first place. Together, we’re helping institutions build AML programs that are more efficient, defensible, and sustainable.”

Teciem Welcomes Didier Bouillard as Chairman of Board of Directors

Teciem has appointed Didier Bouillard as independent chairman of its board, adding a senior capital-markets technology executive whose career spans some of the industry’s most significant trading, risk and regulatory infrastructure platforms. The move signals the firm’s focus on strengthening governance as it continues to scale its treasury and capital-markets software platform under private-equity ownership.

Bouillard brings more than three decades of experience building and leading enterprise financial-technology businesses. Based in London, he will work with Teciem’s board, management team and shareholder representatives to support strategic direction and governance oversight as the company pursues its next phase of growth.

His career includes senior roles at Ubitrade and SunGard, where he helped develop and expand trading, risk and post-trade platforms used widely across the industry. He later served as chief executive of Ullink, leading the firm’s global expansion before becoming CEO of Calypso Technology in 2018. In 2021 he took on leadership of Adenza following the merger of Calypso Technology and AxiomSL, overseeing the integration of trading, treasury, risk and regulatory-compliance capabilities before the company was acquired by Nasdaq.

Throughout these roles, Bouillard has worked at the intersection of market infrastructure, enterprise software and private-equity ownership models—experience that Teciem’s leadership believes will be relevant as the firm continues to expand its front-to-back treasury and capital-markets offering.

Commenting on the appointment, Wissam Khoury, Chief Executive Officer and Board Director at Teciem, said: “Welcoming an independent chairman of Didier’s caliber and experience to our Board of Directors marks an important milestone in Teciem’s evolution as a standalone, private-equity backed provider of treasury and capital markets technology. The appointment reflects our commitment to balanced oversight and governance standards consistent with leading institutional fintech platforms. Didier’s expertise in scaling fintech businesses in partnership with private equity, combined with his independent perspective, will be instrumental as we grow the business and execute our strategic roadmap.”

ClearToken and Canton Network Partner to Launch Regulated Settlement Infrastructure

ClearToken, the FCA-authorised financial market infrastructure (FMI) provider, has partnered with Canton Network to deploy three Daml-based digital asset platforms: CT Register, CT Pay, and CT Settle. This collaboration integrates ClearToken’s regulatory status with Canton’s blockchain architecture to provide settlement for stablecoin FX and tokenised cash flows. The suite enables the tokenisation of fiat and securities, single-sided and Payment versus Payment (PvP) settlement to eliminate currency risk, and Delivery versus Payment (DvP) net settlement across cryptoassets and stablecoins.

The partnership addresses a significant gap in the $315 billion stablecoin market, which currently lacks the robust post-trade infrastructure found in traditional FX markets. By deploying on the Canton Network – an ecosystem including major institutions such as Goldman Sachs and the LSEG – ClearToken positions its services at the intersection of regulated finance and institutional blockchain. All platforms will be operated by entities within the ClearToken group that are either authorised by the FCA or supervised by the Bank of England.

Launched in December 2025, these services form a modular post-trade stack. While CT Pay and CT Settle are currently active, future expansions will include a central counterparty (CCP) clearing service, CT Clear, pending further regulatory authorisation. This integrated approach allows institutional participants to adopt specific modules independently or utilise the full end-to-end platform for programmable, auditable settlement workflows.

FIS Acquires Droit: Computational Law Moves Into the Core of Capital Markets Infrastructure

Financial technology provider Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) has acquired RegTech firm Droit, a specialist in computational law and automated regulatory decisioning used across global capital markets.

The deal brings Droit’s rule-based compliance platform into the FIS capital-markets technology stack, positioning the combined offering to deliver embedded regulatory controls across trading, post-trade processing and reporting workflows.

Andres Choussy, President & COO, FIS said  “Our clients spend enormous time and money managing regulatory complexity and most of that work is still manual.  This is a challenge we’ve aimed to address for a significant time, and with our recent acquisition of Droit, we are now positioned to achieve it.”

Droit is known for its Adept platform, which encodes regulatory obligations as machine-executable logic that can determine whether a trade, product or activity complies with jurisdiction-specific market rules in real time. The technology is used by banks, trading venues and market infrastructure providers to automate complex regulatory determinations across regimes such as derivatives reporting, product eligibility and cross-border market access.

For Droit, the combination represents an opportunity to scale its regulatory decisioning technology within a larger financial-technology platform serving thousands of financial institutions worldwide. FIS provides banking, payments and capital-markets technology to more than 20,000 clients globally.

Brock Arnason, Chief Executive Officer of Droit, said the integration with FIS would extend the reach of Droit’s approach to computational regulation.

“Our mission has always been to translate complex regulation into precise, executable logic,” Arnason said. “Joining FIS allows us to bring that capability to a broader set of market participants and embed regulatory intelligence directly within core financial workflows.”

Grant Thornton UK Modernises Client Onboarding with Fenergo CLM

Grant Thornton UK is moving to modernise its client onboarding and due diligence processes through the deployment of Fenergo’s client lifecycle management (CLM) platform. The initiative reflects a broader shift among professional services firms toward centralised onboarding architectures that bring know-your-customer (KYC), due diligence and engagement acceptance into a unified workflow.

The new platform is intended to streamline how Grant Thornton performs client checks and manages regulatory obligations at the outset of an engagement. By consolidating previously fragmented processes into a single system, the firm expects to reduce manual effort associated with onboarding while improving the consistency of risk and compliance assessments.

In practical terms, the change replaces labour-intensive onboarding steps with a structured digital workflow that integrates KYC, client due diligence and engagement approval. The goal is to reduce the operational overhead associated with onboarding new clients while enabling teams to focus more on advisory and client-facing work.

“Efficiency, quality and compliance are fundamental to delivering exceptional service to our clients. Fenergo’s unified platform will help us optimise the onboarding experience, reducing time and supporting regulatory readiness across our business; all underpinned by the company’s proven track record and deep expertise in this space,” said Fiona Baldwin, Chief Operating Officer, Grant Thornton UK.

Grant Thornton’s adoption also reflects a wider trend in which large professional services and financial institutions are investing in technology platforms to standardise onboarding and compliance processes. In this context, client lifecycle management systems increasingly act as operational control points – linking regulatory checks, documentation and approval workflows into a single operational layer.

“We are proud to partner with Grant Thornton UK as they reimagine their operating model for client onboarding, due diligence and engagement acceptance. Our mission is to empower users to focus on their most critical business priorities, gaining a competitive advantage through efficiency and personalised client experience. By leveraging AI, we aim to streamline workflows, remove waste and drive impactful outcomes. Grant Thornton’s adoption underscores our strategic growth in the professional services sector and the strength of our AI-powered CLM platform,” said Ruth Ormsby, Managing Director, EMEA, Fenergo.

The deployment highlights how onboarding technology—once primarily associated with banking KYC – has become increasingly relevant to professional services firms facing similar regulatory scrutiny around client due diligence, risk assessment and engagement governance.

Retail Flow Becomes Integral to Institutional Execution Strategies, says Horizon Report

New research from Horizon Trading Solutions reveals that retail trading has moved from the periphery to the core of financial markets, significantly altering institutional execution. A survey of traders at tier 2 and 3 banks and institutional brokers found that nearly two-thirds now attribute at least 40% of their total trading activity to retail flow. This suggests that the influence of individual investors is far more deeply integrated into professional market structures than the standard US headline figures of 20% to 35% would indicate.

The surge in retail participation across equities, options, and micro derivatives is forcing a shift in professional conduct. Close to 75% of respondents have adjusted their execution strategies to account for these flows, with nearly a third reporting fundamental changes to their trading methods. Despite previous volatility linked to “meme stock” events, the majority of institutional participants now view the presence of retail flow as a positive market development.

Looking forward, institutional traders expect retail-driven initiatives to continue reshaping market infrastructure. Extended trading hours were identified by 25% of respondents as the development likely to have the greatest impact on their operations, followed by global retail expansion and the growth of fractional trading. While prediction markets remain a minor factor due to regulatory constraints outside the US, the overall trend points toward a market structure increasingly defined by retail demand.

ASX and LSEG Partner to Modernise ASX 24 Trading Platform

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has reached an agreement with LSEG Markets Technology to upgrade the ASX 24 trading platform. This partnership aims to bolster the growth and resilience of the venue, which serves as a primary hub for Australian and New Zealand interest rate, equity, and commodity derivatives. By leveraging LSEG’s global experience with Tier-1 markets, the exchange seeks to maintain its standing as a stable, highly liquid environment for a diverse trading community.

Under the terms of the deal, LSEG will implement a high-performance, low-latency system designed to enhance speed and capacity. The primary focus of the upgrade is to reduce operational risk while providing the agility required to expand product sets and meet the demands of sophisticated derivatives trading. This technical foundation is expected to support long-term improvements in market transparency and liquidity.

Implementation will begin immediately, with both organisations collaborating throughout 2026 on platform design, rigorous testing, and participant migration. This phased approach is intended to ensure a seamless transition for the market ecosystem. Once complete, the new infrastructure will underpin one of the world’s most active interest-rate derivatives markets, ensuring it remains competitive in a global landscape.