Franklin Templeton Expands Benji Technology Platform onto Canton Blockchain

The Canton Network has announced that Franklin Templeton is expanding its Benji Technology Platform onto the Canton Blockchain. This integration aims to provide global institutional clients with seamless access to tokenised investment products. The move expands the availability of regulated, tokenised financial instruments on the network, reinforcing Canton’s position as a key blockchain for institutions.

The Benji Technology Platform is Franklin Templeton’s proprietary system designed to manage token-based investments. Using this platform, Franklin Templeton launched the first U.S.-registered mutual fund using blockchain technology in 2021. The firm now offers several on-chain tokenised investment products for various use cases, including retail, institutional, and collateral.

This integration also creates new opportunities for Canton’s Global Collateral Network. Participants, such as QCP, intend to use the platform as a new source of liquidity. This development highlights Canton’s ability to support interconnected traditional finance and digital asset markets while adhering to institutional regulatory and privacy standards.

Millennium bcp Partners with Murex to Enhance Market Risk Management

Millennium bcp, Portugal’s biggest private-owned bank, with operations also in Poland and Mozambique, has entered a strategic partnership with Murex, the trading and risk management solutions vendor. The bank will adopt Murex’s MX.3 platform to strengthen its market risk management capabilities and ensure compliance with the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB).

The initiative will span the bank’s operations across all three countries, establishing a unified and robust risk framework. Murex will provide capabilities to monitor market risk across these geographies, covering the full spectrum of asset classes managed by the bank, including interest rates, foreign exchange, equities, credit, and derivatives.

This deployment is a key part of the bank’s risk transformation journey, aimed at aligning its oversight with global standards and enhancing operational efficiency. Implementation of the MX.3 platform is set to begin this year, with rollouts phased according to functional priorities.

Phillip Securities Selects Integral to Expand Institutional FX Offering

Singapore-based Phillip Securities has chosen US technology provider Integral to advance its institutional foreign exchange (FX) offering. Traditionally focused on the retail sector, Phillip Securities will use Integral’s pricing and distribution solutions to support its expansion into services for institutional market participants.

The integration will allow the firm to manage higher volumes of FX Contracts for Difference (CFDs), complementing its established equity CFD business. Integral’s technology provides real-time price feeds and streamlines price distribution to clients and other business entities within the PhillipCapital Group, such as Phillip Nova and Phillip Securities Japan.

Institutional clients will also gain access to Direct Market Access (DMA) trading, enabling faster and more transparent execution with direct market pricing across a wider variety of FX instruments. The scalability of the solution also allows Phillip Securities to incorporate additional FX instruments in the future.

Trading Technologies and TokWise Partner on European Energy Trade Execution

Trading Technologies (TT) has partnered with European technology firm TokWise to provide trade execution services. As of 1 November, users of TokWise’s portfolio management system can execute trades via the TT platform. The integration provides TokWise clients with high-speed connectivity to key European power exchanges, including EPEX and Nord Pool, for order routing and execution.

TokWise offers a power management system for institutional energy firms, featuring an AI-powered agent, GuardianTrade, to optimise trading strategies. It covers short-term day-ahead, intraday, and balancing markets, helping users manage risk and improve trading decisions.

By routing all execution through the TT platform, TokWise ensures its customers benefit from robust infrastructure and low-latency capabilities. The partnership allows TokWise to focus on its core AI-driven optimisation while TT provides the execution technology.

Acuity’s Agent Fleet Offers S&P Capital IQ Data

Acuity Knowledge Partners, which provides research and AI services to financial institutions, is integrating S&P Capital IQ data into its Agent Fleet platform.

The collaboration brings company intelligence, financials, estimates, transactions and professional data into the Agent Fleet platform. This enhanced offering builds on a foundation of more than 10 years during which Acuity has worked with S&P Global Market Intelligence.

“This integration deepens our decade-long collaboration with S&P Global Market Intelligence and demonstrates the strength of our work together,” said Cameron Allan, Global Partnerships Lead at Acuity.

T. Rowe Price Adopts Genesis Solution to Streamline Primary Bond Issuance Workflow

Asset manager T. Rowe Price has deployed the Primary Bond Issuance (PBI) solution from Genesis Global, to manage corporate bond deal workflows. The system will aid T. Rowe Price’s fixed income teams optimise how they track and invest in deals throughout the bond lifecycle.

The Genesis solution provides a consolidated, real-time view of deals by aggregating data from multiple providers. It was customised for T. Rowe Price with an algorithm that automatically merges multiple data sources referencing the same deal into one composite record. The PBI solution also integrates with T. Rowe Price’s existing portfolio modelling and order management systems and uses chat functionality for team collaboration.

The new solution replaces a internally-built system and is being used by traders, analysts, and portfolio managers in Baltimore, Hong Kong, and London. It initially covers investment-grade corporate bonds, but T. Rowe Price expects to extend it to high-yield and emerging-market corporate bonds shortly.

EuroCTP Selects BMLL to Provide Data Quality Calibration for EU Consolidated Tape Initiative

BMLL, the provider of historical data and analytics, has been selected to support EuroCTP as part of the European Union’s Consolidated Tape initiative for equities. The collaboration will focus on ensuring the high quality of data provided by the service.

The partnership will allow EuroCTP to validate its data quality control designs and calibrate the necessary thresholds and parameters before its potential launch. BMLL’s data scientists and analytics tools will help EuroCTP overcome the historical data challenges often associated with launching a new data product.

BMLL will provide EuroCTP with access to its data sets, which cover more than 100 trading venues. The company will also share its expertise to support EuroCTP in its goal of delivering a fully mature product by mid-2026.

Avelacom and A-Field Tech Partner on Integrated Low Latency Solutions for APAC Trading Firms

Avelacom, the low latency network solutions provider, and A-Field Tech, the low-latency computing and cloud networking provider, have announced a strategic partnership, aiming to deliver fully integrated network and computing solutions to proprietary trading firms in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly those trading crypto.

By combining Avelacom’s optimised fibre and microwave networks with A-Field Tech’s edge computing nodes and cloud expertise, the partnership promises to reduce latency and to speed up data processing, factors critical for algorithmic trading in crypto markets.

LSEG Launches First Phase of AI-Ready Content via MCP Server on Databricks Marketplace

LSEG has launchedthe first phase of its AI-ready content on the Databricks Marketplace, delivered via its MCP Server. This milestone in the LSEG and Databricks partnership allows customers using Databricks’ AI product, Agent Bricks, to access LSEG’s financial datasets directly. This integration is designed to enable faster and more scalable AI innovation.

The content rollout begins with LSEG Financial Analytics, which follows the September addition of LSEG’s Lipper Fund Data & Analytics and Historical Analytics. This initiative is part of LSEG’s broader ‘LSEG Everywhere’ AI strategy. LSEG’s AI-ready content totals more than 33 petabytes and aims to improve productivity and reduce risk by providing consistent, traceable, and audit-ready data.

The available datasets include Lipper Fund Data & Analytics, providing structured global fund information to help professionals enhance fund selection, benchmark performance, and optimise investment strategies. Historical Analytics delivers decades of time-series market data essential for back-testing, model training, and long-term market pattern analysis.

LSEG and Nasdaq Announce Strategic Partnership to Distribute Private Markets Intelligence

LSEG and Nasdaq have formed a strategic partnership for LSEG to distribute Nasdaq’s institutional-grade private markets intelligence through its Workspace and Datafeeds platforms. Under the agreement, LSEG will license Nasdaq eVestment datasets, which include Market Lens insights, hedge fund insights, Limited Partner (LP) intelligence, and limited exclusive distribution of private fund and deal-level benchmarks.

The collaboration combines LSEG’s editorial and transactional data on private companies with Nasdaq’s fund performance and LP insights. This creates a comprehensive solution intended to help General Partners (GPs), LPs, and advisors streamline critical workflows, from investment targeting and deal execution to fundraising and portfolio optimisation.

This partnership reinforces LSEG’s commitment to private markets, following its launch of the UK’s first Private Securities Market in September 2025. For Nasdaq, the agreement supports its strategy to embed greater transparency and liquidity into the private investment landscape, enabling more informed decision-making.