Regnology to Acquire Fed Reporter

Regnology is moving to deepen its position in the U.S. regulatory reporting market through a planned acquisition of Fed Reporter, a U.S. provider of regulatory reporting solutions used by banks, credit unions and bank holding companies.

The transaction would extend Regnology’s U.S. reach to more than 4,000 institutions, from global banks to community lenders, and broaden its coverage across the American financial landscape. For Regnology, the deal adds a more embedded “last-mile” reporting capability, strengthening its ability to connect upstream data, reporting workflows and final regulatory submission.

“This is the next step in our U.S. strategy. We’ve built strong capabilities and relationships across the market: Fed Reporter extends that reach into the US financial landscape, completing our coverage from Wall Street to Main Street,” said Rob Mackay, CEO of Regnology.

The acquisition follows earlier strategic moves by Regnology in broker-dealer reporting and enterprise-grade regulatory reporting solutions for global institutions. Fed Reporter adds local market expertise and client relationships across banks, credit unions and bank holding companies, including smaller and community-based institutions where reporting support often depends as much on practical implementation knowledge as on platform capability.

The strategic direction is consistent with a wider regulatory reporting market shift towards cleaner data, greater transparency and more direct linkage between firm-side reporting processes and supervisory consumption.

Mackay positioned the deal as part of a broader regulatory modernisation strategy. “Our goal is to be a long-term partner in regulatory modernization. By combining trusted, mission-critical solutions with continued innovation, including more intelligent and automated reporting, we help institutions and regulators manage complexity, improve data quality, and move forward with confidence.”

Alexander Grimm, Head of Americas at Regnology, said the acquisition brings together local expertise and global technology. “We are excited to welcome the highly respected Fed Reporter team into our organization. Their expertise and client relationships are unmatched, and together we combine deep local knowledge with global technology to better serve the entire U.S. market.”

Bruce Gall, CEO of Fed Reporter, said the company’s clients would continue to receive familiar support within a larger operating structure. “This is a strong step forward for our clients and team. We will continue to deliver the simplicity and expert support our clients trust, now backed by the scale and long-term vision of Regnology.”

The transaction remains subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the coming months.

AutoRek Announces Major Advancement to AutoRek ARIA as Demand for AI Driven Financial Controls Accelerates

AutoRek has updated its ARIA platform as firms continue to focus on reducing operational friction in reconciliation while maintaining auditability and control. The latest release centres on automating rule creation, shortening configuration timelines, and improving visibility into matching decisions – areas that have traditionally required significant manual intervention.

The update introduces automated rule generation for complex matching scenarios and reduces configuration time for routine reconciliations to under 30 minutes. It also expands pattern recognition to limit manual investigation, alongside enhanced dashboards designed to provide real-time oversight of reconciliation processes. Explainability features have been extended to support audit and regulatory review, reflecting ongoing supervisory expectations around transparency in automated decision-making.

Since its launch in September 2025, AutoRek ARIA has been positioned as a regulatory-grade intelligence layer for reconciliation and financial controls. Reported outcomes include automated match rates of up to 99.99%, alongside a 95% reduction in time spent evaluating manual matches and a 90–95% reduction in the time required to create new match rules. The latest iteration builds on this by targeting more complex workflows and scaling automation across higher-volume environments.

“Financial institutions are under pressure to operate faster, with greater accuracy and stronger oversight,” said Chris Livesey, CEO of AutoRek. “AutoRek ARIA brings regulatory?grade intelligence to one of the most operationally intensive areas of finance. This release represents a step?change in how firms can automate reconciliation at scale while maintaining the transparency and governance regulators expect.”

The direction of travel aligns with broader industry shifts, where reconciliation is increasingly treated as a control function rather than a back-office task. The emphasis on explainability and oversight reflects regulatory scrutiny on how automated processes can be evidenced, particularly in environments where firms must demonstrate both accuracy and control effectiveness.

Lloyds Joins Integral’s Network as an FX Liquidity Provider

Integral, the currency technology provider, has added Lloyds to its ecosystem as a liquidity provider. The partnership is designed to expand Integral’s institutional foreign exchange (FX) network.

The integration enables Integral’s global clients to access Lloyds’ FX pricing for key currency products through a single technology system. By adding the bank to its platform, Integral aims to provide its users with greater pricing depth, increased workflow efficiency, and improved execution quality across major currency pairs, supporting price formation for various trading strategies.

FIX Trading Community Releases Standardised Outage Communication Practices

The FIX Trading Community has introduced a standard methodology, the Outage Communication Recommended Practices, to automate the electronic communication of market outages. Previously, outage notifications were inconsistent and largely manual, which often worsened the impact of technical disruptions. This new framework allows exchanges and market participants to issue timely, consistent updates and resolutions.

The initiative responds directly to regulatory guidance from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), alongside industry bodies such as AFME, EFAMA, and FIA EPTA, who have all called for harmonised outage protocols. The practices build upon existing frameworks for European consolidated tapes while offering greater granularity.

Designed to be asset-class agnostic, the framework covers trading, market data, and other technical disruptions across all scopes, from individual instruments to entire markets. It applies broadly to venues, brokers, asset managers, and data providers, ensuring a unified approach to managing system failures.

BLOX Markets Partners with Imandra to Deploy AI Infrastructure for Openpool

BLOX Markets has formed a strategic partnership with neurosymbolic AI firm Imandra to integrate its technology into Openpool, an upcoming retail-focused US equities trading venue. The platform will use Imandra Connectivity and CodeLogician as foundational components for its software assurance, certification, and connectivity infrastructure.

The deployment replaces traditional static documentation and manual testing with Imandra’s machine-readable models. Using the Imandra Protocol Language, Openpool will provide connecting firms with a living specification that continuously reflects production behaviour. This allows users to validate their implementations through automated simulators, increasing transparency and efficiency during the onboarding process.

Furthermore, BLOX Markets will utilise CodeLogician, an automated reasoning engine, to formally verify software behaviour. By creating mathematical models of the system, this technology identifies edge cases and proves critical properties prior to deployment, ensuring correctness and resilience across the market infrastructure.

Novig Deploys Eventus Validus Platform for Trade Surveillance Ahead of Nationwide Expansion

Novig, the American sports prediction market, has deployed the Eventus Validus platform to provide trade surveillance for its exchange. This partnership follows Novig’s recent approval by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Designated Contract Market (DCM). This regulatory designation allows the company to operate as a federally regulated prediction market and launch a nationwide expansion this summer.

Novig selected the Validus platform for its ability to customise surveillance scenarios, such as wash trading and spoofing, to suit its specific market mechanics. The system offers cross-account and cross-market analysis to detect coordinated manipulation, alongside real-time and post-trade monitoring for clean forensic auditability.

Additionally, the platform provides straightforward integration with Novig’s internal systems and includes built-in case management workflows to streamline investigations. Eventus was chosen to support Novig’s long-term growth, offering the necessary scalability to handle increasing trade volumes and an expanding regulatory surface area.

SoftSolutions Integrates AI Capabilities Into nexRates Fixed-Income Trading Platform

SoftSolutions has integrated production-ready artificial intelligence into its nexRates fixed-income trading platform. The new tool allows traders to use plain language to automatically generate context-dependent Request for Quote (RFQ) layouts, workflow rules, and custom interfaces, eliminating the need for developer or vendor intervention.

The AI operates strictly within a predefined catalogue of platform fields and actions. Every configuration is schema-validated, previewed, and requires final confirmation from the trader. Crucially, the AI functions solely for decision support and desk configuration; it does not price, quote, or execute trades. All risk limits, compliance gates, and supervisor approvals apply throughout, preserving MiFID II and RTS 6 alignment.

Furthermore, the system analyses counterparty behaviour to propose concrete strategy adjustments based on client history and tiering. By bringing historical patterns into a single view, the AI facilitates faster calls while ensuring the trader retains complete command over every decision.

GoldenSource Scout AI Platform Seeks to Bring Trust to Data

GoldenSource has launched an artificial intelligence platform called GoldenSource Scout, which is designed to help financial services firms establish trusted data context for AI models.

The release follows findings from the InvestOps 2026 research report, which indicated that 98 per cent of firms are concerned that poor data could lead to incorrect artificial intelligence insights.

“The test for AI is not whether it can generate answers, but whether those answers can stand up to operational scrutiny, governance expectations and board-level accountability,” said GoldenSource chief executive James Corrigan. “That is where trusted data context becomes essential.”

The platform allows clients to query and interpret data across multiple domains through a chat interface or an agent-building tool deployed on Amazon Bedrock.

It expands upon the company’s previous data management services, which have focused on standardising and operationalising complex market data for four decades.

MSCI Buys First Street to Bolster Climate Risk Data Offering

MSCI has acquired physics-based climate risk data and analytics provider First Street as it seeks to enhance its climate risk capabilities.

The US$120 million transaction coms as as financial institutions demand physical climate risk data embedded into workflows to inform decision-making during accelerating global climate risks, MSCI said.

“The integration of First Street data into MSCI’s existing geospatial capabilities will enable clients to be better informed about their changing risk exposures and translate that directly into financial decision-making,” Richard Mattison, head of sustainability and climate at MSCI, said,

First Street provides multi-hazard models that incorporate climate signals to assess physical risk exposure, asset damage and business interruption.

The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter and builds upon MSCI’s previous developments in geospatial intelligence, climate scenario analysis and transition finance.

Chainlink’s DLT-Based Project Pangea Tackles T+0 FX Settlement

Oracle provider Chainlink’s Project Pangea has assembled 50+ banks across 16 countries to bring DLT-powered real-time atomic settlement to the $9.6 trillion per day foreign exchange market.

The project’s bank partners include members of three European and Korean consortia, while the technology base comprises Chainlink’s CCIP (Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol), Swift’s ISO 20022 messaging service and DLT-based settlement technology from FairSquareLab, a Korean digital asset infrastructure developer.

FairSquareLab’s onchain settlement technology uses stablecoin transfers and smart contracts running on Ethereum, Polygon, and a proprietary L1 network. Banks access Pangea via existing Swift connections while Chainlink supports digital asset transfers and FX market data.