Capgemini has acquired Quorsus, a UK-based firm consultancy firm specialising in post-trade technologies, operations, regulatory solutions, and market infrastructure. The acquisition will allow Capgemini to further support its capital markets clients in addressing not only increasing regulatory requirements, but the need for strategic yet efficient operations across the trading lifecycle.
The buy-side trading desk is facing a structural reckoning. Decades of siloed systems for equities, FX and fixed income have created what COOs increasingly describe as a “silo tax” – duplicated headcount, fragmented data, and operational overhead that is harder to justify now that the underlying workflows have, in functional terms, converged. Thirty years of...
TMX Group has agreed to acquire RAFI Indices from Research Affiliates for US$490 million, adding the fundamental-indexation franchise to its TMX VettaFi indexing and analytics business. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2026. RAFI Indices is the index business built around the fundamental-indexation methodology developed at Research...
Now in its 17th year, Data Management Summit (DMS) London returns In April 2027, to explore how to use data and AI to drive measurable business outcomes reliably, repeatedly and at scale.
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...