State Street Launches PriceStats Superset for Daily Inflation Analysis

State Street has launched PriceStats Superset, a global dataset providing daily, item-level pricing data designed to give investors, policymakers and researchers earlier insight into the forces driving inflation.

The dataset builds on State Street PriceStats, its high-frequency inflation measurement service, by providing access to the underlying item-level data used to construct its indices. Covering 27 countries and millions of products and services, PriceStats Superset contains more than 50 billion price observations, allowing users to track price movements from individual products through categories and sectors to headline inflation measures.

State Street said the additional granularity should help users identify emerging inflationary pressures before they become visible in official government releases. The launch forms part of the firm’s broader Data Intelligence strategy and extends its work with PriceStats, which has provided high-frequency inflation research to State Street clients since 2011.

Tokenovate Executes CDM-Native Intraday Repo on Canton Network

Tokenovate has executed and settled an intraday repo transaction on the Canton Network using the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM), with the cash leg settled in Circle-issued USDC expressed as USDCx Reserve on Canton.

The transaction used CDM-native event and state management across the full repo lifecycle, covering trade representation, lifecycle processing, collateral movements and coordinated settlement of both legs. Conducted in a controlled environment, the workflow was aligned with established repo market documentation.

Tokenovate said the combination of CDM, tokenised cash and distributed ledger infrastructure could enable faster collateral mobility, intraday liquidity management and more automated settlement while maintaining standardised workflows across traditional and digital infrastructure.

The company has also joined the Canton Foundation as a General Member, giving it a role in the governance and development of the network as it expands its programmable post-trade infrastructure across repo, collateral, derivatives and securities markets.

S&P Global Leads Investment in Kaiko as Series B Reaches $110 Million

S&P Global has led a strategic investment in digital asset data provider Kaiko, extending the company’s Series B funding to $110 million as it expands its data infrastructure for tokenised markets. The round also includes BNP Paribas, Bpifrance, Broadridge, Canton Foundation, Coinbase Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, Nasdaq Ventures, Royal Bank of Canada, Stellar and Susquehanna Private Equity Investments.

Participating institutions will join a Kaiko-chaired Strategic Industry Working Group focused on shaping data and infrastructure for bringing tokenised financial products into production.

Kaiko provides institutional market data covering more than 150 digital asset exchanges and protocols. It is extending this into onchain capital markets, including delivering market data to smart contracts and standardising onchain activity for off-chain consumption.

The investment follows Kaiko’s acquisitions of DeFi infrastructure provider Cometh and digital asset data specialist Amberdata, alongside the recent launch of digital asset indices with S&P.

smartTrade Extends into Post-Trade with Multi-Asset Flow Platform

smartTrade Technologies has launched smartTrade Flow, a multi-asset post-trade platform covering processes from matching and reconciliation through to settlement, accounting, regulatory reporting and audit.

The standalone platform connects to existing trading systems through APIs and integrates natively with smartTrade’s LiquidityFX and Commercial Banking & Payments products. It supports FX, precious metals, money markets, fixed income, crypto and derivatives.

Flow is designed to automate post-trade processes that continue to rely on batch processing, spreadsheets and manual intervention. Capabilities include real-time trade and cash-flow reconciliation against external data through SWIFT, CLS and APIs, alongside real-time tracking of balances, positions, limits and P&L.

The platform also provides configurable settlement workflows and automated regulatory reporting, including EMIR, MiFID II and DTCC formats, while allowing entitled business users to configure matching rules, reconciliation processes and maker-checker requirements without developer intervention.

LDA Launches Configurable Low-Latency Platforms for Trading and AI Workloads

LDA Technologies has launched two configurable hardware platforms designed to help capital markets firms scale low-latency connectivity and compute capacity while reducing infrastructure footprint.

OmniX combines FPGA-powered networking, Layer 1 connectivity and hot-pluggable storage within a 1RU platform, allowing firms to tap, timestamp and record data within a single device. Configurations can incorporate LDA’s Maze Layer 1 fabric, supporting connectivity from 10G to 25G, or its lower-latency Neo fabric.

Torus targets compute-intensive trading, high-performance computing and AI workloads, supporting eight-board configurations across expandable 1RU and 2RU deployments. Maze can also provide a configurable Layer 1 mesh connecting components within the chassis at latency of 3.6 to 4.2 nanoseconds.

The platforms are designed to allow firms to scale connectivity and processing without continually adding separate appliances, external switches and cabling, while supporting custom configurations based on individual workloads.

Following Restructuring, ConsenSys Focuses on ZK Layer 2 Network

A major corporate restructuring at Consensys Software, leading to the spin out of its consumer-focused MataMask wallet business, has also established a distinct entity (still called ConsenSys) focused entirely on institutional infrastructure based on the Linea zkEVM Layer 2 network.

Linea’s design features full Ethereum equivalence, allowing smart contracts, decentralised applications, and existing enterprise tools built for the Ethereum mainnet to run on Linea without any code modifications.

A zkEVM (Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine) is an advanced blockchain infrastructure technology. It combines the processing environment of Ethereum with zero-knowledge cryptographic proofs to execute smart contracts off-chain while proving their absolute mathematical validity back to the main Ethereum blockchain. Essentially, it allows a network to process thousands of transactions rapidly and cheaply while inheriting the exact, uncompromised security of the main Ethereum network.

tZERO Announces New Funding; Working Towards Strategic Transaction

Blockchain financial infrastructure provider tZERO Group has announced a new funding round led by prominent investors Marc and Max Cohodes and including participation from existing investors Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and Bill Fleckenstein, alongside support from its partner Dinari and other contributors.

Additionally, Neighborhood Intelligence has committed to funding its portion of the financing once tZERO announces a binding agreement for a strategic transaction, such as a merger, sale of assets or a SPAC transaction.

CEO Alan Konevsky notes that the funds will directly support operations and execution as the firm commercialises and expands its tokenised financial market infrastructure.

This strategic injection of capital is part of tZERO’s broader, long-term capital plan designed to power its next phase of growth. The company is actively working toward a major strategic transaction to ensure long-term capital stability and independence. At the same time, this funding will help tZERO scale its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering, which connects tokenisation, trading, custody, and asset servicing to help financial institutions bring blockchain-based assets to regulated markets.

Parameta and Zema Expand Access to OTC Energy and Commodities Data

Parameta Solutions and Zema Global have expanded their partnership to provide Zema customers with access to Parameta’s OTC energy and commodities market data through Zema’s Decisioning Infrastructure.

The agreement will make Parameta’s end-of-day indicative pricing available across global markets including oil, natural gas and LNG, power, coal, environmental markets and metals. The broker-sourced data is used for functions including position valuation, risk management and the construction of pricing and forward curves.

Zema’s platform centralises market and proprietary data and automates its validation, transformation and distribution across systems including ETRM, CTRM, ERP, treasury, data lakes and analytics environments. The companies said the integration is intended to reduce the need for firms to maintain separate data ingestion processes while making independent OTC pricing data available directly within existing energy and commodities workflows.

Sterling Launches STRIDER for 24-Hour Web and Mobile Trading

Sterling Trading Tech has launched STRIDER, an AI-driven web and mobile trading platform designed to support increasingly global and extended-hours trading.

The platform provides 24/7 access to US equities and options trading through browsers and mobile devices, covering workflows ranging from straightforward equity execution to complex options strategies. It is interoperable with Sterling’s desktop environment and integrated with its OMS 360 platform.

STRIDER incorporates AI capabilities within Sterling’s back-end infrastructure, which the company says will support scalability, responsiveness and optimisation of the trading experience as markets move towards longer operating hours.

The device-agnostic platform combines execution functionality with real-time market information, charting and analytics. Its integration with OMS 360 also gives traders real-time visibility into portfolio margin, P&L, buying power and risk, allowing positions and trading activity to be managed consistently across desktop, web and mobile environments.

SIX x-clear Extends Clearing to US Equities

SIX is expanding its post-trade offering with a new clearing segment for US securities, enabling European clients to trade and clear US instruments through its interoperable central counterparty, SIX x-clear. The service will operate within a European framework, with extended clearing hours aligned with the US market close and settlement through DTCC. Initial coverage will focus on S&P 500 constituents, with scope to expand to additional securities over time.

The move extends SIX x-clear’s capabilities beyond European markets and is intended to provide clients with longer trading and clearing windows alongside streamlined access to US equities and post-trade processing.

Pan-European retail-focused exchange Equiduct is expected to become the first trading venue to launch under the framework. SIX said the initiative is partly aimed at supporting growing European retail investor participation in US equities while allowing its clients to manage those flows through existing clearing infrastructure.