LSEG Integrates Financial Data and Analytics into Gemini Enterprise via MCP Connector

LSEG has integrated its licensed data and analytics into Gemini Enterprise through a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector. This collaboration with Google Cloud provides financial institutions with secure, governed access to AI-ready content, specifically designed for the “agentic era.” By using Gemini Enterprise’s end-to-end system, users can deploy AI agents capable of executing complex, multi-step financial work processes.

The MCP connector offers a comprehensive range of financial content, including real-time pricing, macroeconomic data, fundamentals, and news. It also incorporates forecasts, estimates, and sophisticated analytical models. This integration allows institutions to embed market data directly into their existing workflows, accelerating contextual research and enhancing market monitoring while maintaining strict enterprise-grade controls and data governance.

Albilad Capital Deploys Horizon Trading Solutions Platform

Albilad Capital has officially deployed the Horizon Trading Solutions platform, marking a strategic upgrade to its technological infrastructure. The move is designed to modernise the firm’s operational systems in response to the rapid expansion of the Saudi capital market. By adopting this technology, Albilad Capital aims to align its market-making and trading services with international best practices and reinforce its position as a prominent financial institution.

The new ecosystem features an advanced algorithmic Order Management System (OMS) that enables automated order execution. This technology reduces the need for manual intervention, ensuring higher accuracy and speed in processing trades. Additionally, the platform provides real-time market monitoring and high responsiveness, which improves overall execution quality and operational efficiency.

This initiative reflects Albilad Capital’s broader strategy to enhance the sophistication of its brokerage services. By integrating these automated solutions, the company intends to support the competitiveness and transparency of the Saudi financial sector while fostering innovation within the regional capital market.

Tickblaze Integrates Sterling OMS 360 to Enhance Real-Time Margin Enforcement

Sterling Trading Tech has announced that Tickblaze, an infrastructure engine for proprietary trading firms, has selected Sterling OMS 360 as its order management system. Tickblaze provides a multi-asset trading ecosystem connecting brokers, quants, and traders. By integrating Sterling’s technology into its stack, Tickblaze will make these advanced order management capabilities available to its entire end-client base.

The integration focuses on Sterling OMS 360’s unique ability to provide native, real-time enforcement of Reg T and Portfolio Margin requirements throughout the order lifecycle. This proactive risk management tool is designed to prevent margin violations and reduce exposure to regulatory breaches before orders are executed. It offers full lifecycle enforcement across Excess, SMA, and PDT requirements, ensuring firms can deploy complex strategies with greater security.

This collaboration addresses the industry shift toward real-time intraday margin requirements and evolving FINRA Rule 4210 standards. Unlike systems that rely on post-trade checks, Sterling’s solution allows Tickblaze clients to navigate a complex regulatory landscape with automated, compliant infrastructure. This move reinforces both companies’ commitment to providing sophisticated, risk-aware technology for the global proprietary trading community.

STS Digital Ltd. Secures Full Digital Asset Business Licence from Bermuda Monetary Authority

STS Digital Ltd. has been granted a Full ‘F’ Licence by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) under the Digital Asset Business Act 2018. This represents the highest level of regulatory authorisation in the jurisdiction, placing the firm alongside major institutional entities such as Circle, Coinbase International, and Payward. The milestone marks the final stage of the BMA’s rigorous licensing pathway, making STS Digital one of only a few companies to have successfully completed the entire transition from testing to full graduation.

The firm’s regulatory journey spanned three years, beginning with a Test Licence in May 2023. This was followed by a Modified Licence in April 2025, culminating in the Full ‘F’ Licence on 30 April 2026. By progressing through every stage of the framework, STS Digital has demonstrated compliance with one of the world’s first comprehensive digital asset regimes.

Bermuda remains a premier international financial hub, boasting Solvency II equivalence with the European Union and hosting the third-largest insurance market globally. The BMA’s oversight provides a robust institutional foundation for digital asset businesses, ensuring high standards of transparency and security within the sector. This approval reinforces STS Digital’s position within a highly regulated global marketplace.

DTCC to Integrate Chainlink Technology into Digitally Native Collateral AppChain

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced it will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and Chainlink’s data standards to power its new Collateral AppChain platform. This shared infrastructure is designed to modernise collateral mobility and improve capital efficiency across the global financial services industry. By integrating the CRE, the platform will gain access to a resilient data and orchestration layer, facilitating automated workflows for complex post-trade processes including valuation, margining, and collateral optimisation.

The partnership aims to overhaul global market risk management by enabling the seamless pairing of asset prices and valuations with asset movement. Unlike traditional one-off integrations, the CRE provides a reusable framework, allowing the Collateral AppChain to scale efficiently across diverse asset classes and new data types. This interoperable foundation is intended to serve a wide range of market participants, from collateral providers and managers to triparty agents and custodians. Following its initial unveiling during the ‘Great Collateral Experiment’, the platform is scheduled to go live in the fourth quarter of 2026.

LMAX Group Launches Kiosk to Facilitate Institutional Digital Asset Collateral

LMAX Group has introduced Kiosk, a fully hosted interface designed to help institutional clients manage digital assets as cross-asset collateral. The portal allows users to deposit assets directly into LMAX Custody, where they can be instantly deployed to trade a variety of instruments, including spot FX, precious metals, digital assets, CFDs, and perpetual futures. By providing a secure and integrated environment, the platform aims to help firms broaden their digital asset offerings with minimal technical friction.

The solution is engineered to reduce operational fragmentation by consolidating essential treasury and security functions into a single workflow. Key features include tools for deposits and withdrawals, API credential management, and WalletConnect integration. By streamlining these processes, Kiosk enables institutions to access deep liquidity across the LMAX ecosystem more efficiently.

This launch addresses the increasing global demand for institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure. By simplifying the transition between custody and active trading, the platform helps clients unlock new revenue opportunities while maintaining rigorous security controls. The initiative reinforces LMAX Group’s position as a provider of integrated marketplace solutions for the evolving cross-asset landscape.

LSEG Expands Access to Open Risk Analytics via Models-as-a-Service Marketplace

LSEG has integrated its Open Risk Analytics offering into its Models-as-a-Service (MaaS) marketplace, broadening access to quantitative risk models for financial institutions. Delivered through the LSEG Analytics API, the hosted service allows banks, hedge funds, and asset managers to incorporate risk calculations into their existing workflows via tools such as Visual Studio Code and JupyterLab. The platform also supports AI-enabled integration through the Model Context Protocol and partners like Microsoft Copilot.

The service covers major asset classes including FX, equities, commodities, interest rates, and inflation. It provides a suite of essential calculations, such as Historical Value at Risk, Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA), and P&L Explain, which helps teams attribute portfolio changes to specific market movements or time effects. Additionally, the models facilitate stress testing and sensitivity analysis, allowing firms to assess portfolio resilience under various shocked market scenarios.

This deployment is designed to standardise margin and collateral workflows across LSEG’s network of over 3,000 firms. By providing a single source for trade and agreement data, the platform assists clients in managing the complexities of OTC derivatives. The integration ultimately supports risk, treasury, and compliance teams in optimising counterparty risk and capital requirements while maintaining a real-time view of trade exposures.

S&P Global Integrates Energy Insights Into Capital IQ Pro

S&P Global has integrated news and insights from S&P Global Energy into the S&P Capital IQ Pro platform, giving clients AI-powered access to proprietary intelligence across the global energy value chain. The integration is positioned as a response to heightened geopolitical uncertainty and the resulting volatility in global energy markets, which is increasingly feeding through to supply chains, company fundamentals and broader financial markets

Clients now have access to expert coverage across more than 12 industries within the energy ecosystem, including oil and gas, LNG, clean energy, power, metals, chemicals, agriculture and shipping. The content is surfaced through Capital IQ Pro’s generative AI features, including Document Intelligence and ChatIQ, allowing users to connect energy market dynamics to company fundamentals and investment decisions within a single workflow.

FactSet Partners with Valutico to Integrate Private-Markets Valuation into Cobalt

FactSet has announced a partnership with Vienna-based valuation software provider Valutico to deliver an integrated valuation workflow for private capital markets, anchored within FactSet’s Cobalt portfolio monitoring platform.

Under the partnership, portfolio company financials collected in Cobalt flow directly into Valutico’s valuation environment, where analysts can run income-, market- and asset-based methodologies including discounted cash flow (DCF), trading multiples, transaction multiples, venture capital methods and leveraged buyout (LBO) models. Outputs – including enterprise value, equity value and waterfall calculations – flow back into Cobalt and are tracked alongside portfolio performance and reporting. Valutico’s platform draws on FactSet market data, including public company financials, estimates, comps and M&A transaction multiples.

The partnership comes amid a broader push by major data and analytics vendors – including BlackRock with its Aladdin/Preqin integration and JP Morgan with Private Market Data Solutions – to centralise private-markets workflows around a single system of record.

FactSet Integrates Private Markets Valuation Workflow with Valutico

FactSet has created an integrated valuation workflow for private capital markets in collaboration with valuation technology provider Valutico.

The tie-up connects portfolio data, valuation modelling and reporting into a single system to replace manual spreadsheet tasks.

Financial data from Cobalt, FactSet’s monitoring tool, flows into the Valutico platform where analysts can apply income, market and asset-based methodologies.

Finalised enterprise and equity values return to the Cobalt system to be tracked alongside performance metrics. Analysts can access FactSet market data and transaction multiples within the workflow, which expands on the company’s existing portfolio monitoring and investor reporting tools.

“The methodology, breadth, auditability and consistency required across a growing portfolio of companies demands a purpose-built platform,” said Emily Monaghan, Factset senior vice president and senior director of private capital. “Valutico brings that, and with FactSet’s market data – public company financials, estimates, comps, and transaction multiples – natively integrated into the workflow, our clients get a complete solution that is unique in the market.”