Accenture has successfully acquired NIKE Group, an Italian consulting firm that provides RegTech services and solutions to financial services firms, in a deal first announced on 14 April. NIKE Group’s data-driven approach and compliance platform help clients monitor new regulatory requirements and assist with compliance. The NIKE Group team will join Accenture’s Italian Financial Services practice. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Date: 1 December 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The UK, EU and Swiss markets move to T+1 settlement on 11 October 2027, but the first binding compression arrives almost a year earlier. ESMA’s amended settlement discipline RTS expects allocation and confirmation completed by 23:00 CET on trade...
In July, the FinTech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) released CDM 7 on GitHub consolidating more than 130 individual upgrades and development releases and followed up with a detailed analysis on August 14. The analysis was authored by Lionel Smith-Gordon and Ben Page of REGnosys, an active corporate member and key technology contributor to FINOS. The...
Now in its 16th year, the Data Management Summit (DMS) in London brings together the European capital markets enterprise data management community, to explore how data strategy is evolving to drive business outcomes and speed to market in changing times.
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied...