SOLVE Expands Fixed Income Platform with New Predictive Pricing and Analytics Capabilities

SOLVE, the pre-trade data and predictive pricing provider for fixed income markets, has introduced several enhancements to its platform aimed at giving market participants a more unified and actionable view of securities. The updates include new modules for capital structure analysis, enhancements to municipal bond pricing tools, and expanded business development company (BDC) analytics.

Among the new features, the Capital Structure for Workstation module offers an integrated view of bonds and loans across asset classes, with advanced search, portfolio upload, and interactive filtering options. The firm has also launched the AI-powered SOLVE Confidence Score for municipal bonds. Additionally, SOLVE now incorporates analysis from BDC sector expert Nicholas Marshi, providing investors with deeper insights into valuations and portfolio companies.

SOLVE processes around 2 billion data points daily across 1.5 million securities, with predictive pricing now available for more than 200,000 corporate bonds.

Bloomberg Adds AI Portfolio Commentary to PORT Enterprise for Enhanced Investment Analysis

Bloomberg has introduced AI Portfolio Commentary, a new feature within its PORT Enterprise platform, designed to provide automated explanations of portfolio return drivers. By combining attribution data with media coverage from sources such as Bloomberg News, the tool generates contextualised portfolio summaries, helping investment teams streamline reporting and focus on strategic decision-making across both fixed income and equity portfolios.

The update expands PORT Enterprise’s capabilities by delivering granular insights into allocation and selection decisions, supported by Bloomberg’s company-level data and risk models.

AI Portfolio Commentary aligns with Bloomberg’s wider initiative to integrate AI tools into its investment management solutions, including RMS Enterprise and the Bloomberg Terminal.

LSEG and Databricks Partner to Deliver AI-Ready Financial Data via Delta Sharing

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Databricks have formed a strategic partnership to make LSEG’s financial data available natively in Databricks through Delta Sharing. The collaboration will initially provide access to Lipper Fund Data & Analytics and Cross Asset Analytics, with additional datasets including Pricing, Reference Data, Starmine models, Fundamentals, Estimates, Economics and Tick History to follow. These datasets will be accessible via the Databricks Marketplace, enabling seamless integration and discovery.

By combining LSEG’s financial data with Databricks’ AI and analytics platform, the partnership aims to transform how financial services teams build and deploy AI agents. Through Databricks’ Agent Bricks, institutions can integrate market data with enterprise datasets to create AI-powered solutions for investment analytics, risk management, trading, forecasting and compliance reporting. The approach allows teams to replace manual, batch-based processes with real-time, automated insights, accelerating decision-making and maintaining competitiveness in dynamic markets.

Deutsche Börse Enhances Scila Surveillance with Stockpulse Social Media Monitoring

Risk and surveillance solutions provider Scila has integrated Stockpulse’s advanced social media monitoring services into Deutsche Börse’s Scila Surveillance system, marking the first time a major exchange has adopted this combined solution. This latest enhancement is designed to improve oversight of both cash and derivatives markets.

Stockpulse, a Germany-based data analytics firm, specialises in applying AI to social media data processing. Its integration with Scila Surveillance provides Deutsche Börse’s market surveillance team with near real-time access to extensive datasets covering more than 70,000 equities and thousands of cryptocurrencies. The system delivers continuous updates on news, sentiment and activity, to support detection of market manipulation and fraud linked to online platforms.

By incorporating social media insights, the joint solution aims to strengthen Deutsche Börse’s ability to address the growing challenge of monitoring misinformation and coordinated campaigns that can disrupt market integrity.

Sterling Trading Tech Unveils OMS 360 with Full Real-Time Margin Enforcement

Sterling Trading Tech has launched OMS 360, a new order management system that delivers real-time enforcement of Reg T and Portfolio Margin rules across the entire order lifecycle. Built with SEC and FINRA compliance, the system aims to eliminate margin calls and regulatory breaches while supporting advanced trading strategies for banks, brokerages, and clearing firms.

Fully integrated with Sterling Risk Manager, OMS 360 provides continuous buying power checks and transparent margin monitoring. It offers native, real-time margin enforcement with full lifecycle coverage across Excess, Special Memorandum Account, Pattern Day Trader, and Portfolio Margin accounts.

The system is designed to ensure that margin requirements and buying power impacts are calculated and updated at every stage of trading – before, during, and after execution – giving firms greater confidence and control.

Beeks Financial Cloud Partners with TMX Datalinx to Deliver TMX Elastic Market Access Service

Beeks Financial Cloud Group has entered into an agreement with TMX Datalinx, the information services division of TMX Group, to provide its Exchange Cloud platform as TMX Elastic Market Access (TMX EMA), subject to regulatory approval. TMX Group, based in Canada, operates a range of markets including the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Through the partnership, TMX Datalinx plans to offer co-located Infrastructure-as-a-Service via Beeks’ Exchange Cloud. The fully managed TMX EMA service is designed for capital markets and provides a secure, low-latency and scalable hosting environment for trading and data analytics.

The deployment will enable market participants to access bare metal compute, dedicated connectivity and flexible on-demand infrastructure within the TMX Datalinx co-location facility. This initiative aims to support trading firms with high-performance, reliable infrastructure while offering greater agility and cost efficiency.

Bancolombia Goes Live with Murex MX.3 for Hedge Accounting

Bancolombia, Colombia’s biggest bank, has gone live with the Murex MX.3 platform for Hedge Accounting, further extending the bank’s use of the solution on AWS. The adoption supports compliance with IFRS 9, which requires banks to measure expected credit losses and manage interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB).

The MX.3 Hedge Accounting module automates hedge designation, effectiveness testing, reporting and accounting reclassification. It supports a range of hedge types, including fair value, cash flow and net investment hedges for foreign exchange transactions. This enables Bancolombia to enhance efficiency and ensure transparency in its accounting processes.

The project also ensures compliance with local regulation, including External Circular 025, while aligning with international standards. By broadening its use of MX.3 across fixed income, foreign exchange and derivatives, Bancolombia strengthens its front-to-back operations and risk management framework.

OSTTRA and HKEX Complete First USD/CNH Cross Currency Swap Compression Run

OSTTRA has announced the successful completion of its first compression run for USD/CNH cross currency swaps (CCS) cleared through HKEX’s OTC Clear, using its OSTTRA triReduce service. The pilot, conducted on 28 August with five financial institutions including Bank of China (Hong Kong) and Crédit Agricole CIB, compressed a notional value of $5.8bn. The exercise highlights the potential for significant capital efficiencies and risk reduction in a market where HKEX’s OTC Clear remains the sole CCP offering clearing for this contract, with outstanding volumes reaching $255.2bn in July 2025.

The initiative reflects growing demand for compression services in Asia, with OSTTRA reporting that compressed notional value in APAC currencies more than doubled in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. Contracts closed so far in 2025 reached $33.1tn, more than double the total for 2023. Following the pilot’s success, OSTTRA plans to run a larger USD/CNH compression cycle on HKEX’s OTC Clear in the coming months.

BitGo Europe Secures BaFin Approval to Launch Regulated Crypto Trading Services

BitGo Europe GmbH, the digital asset infrastructure company, has received an extension of its licence from Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). The approval allows BitGo Europe to expand its regulated offering to include crypto trading services from Frankfurt, enabling European institutional investors to access spot trading across a wide range of digital assets and stablecoins.

Through its over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk and electronic platform, BitGo Europe aggregates liquidity from multiple market makers and exchanges, offering clients competitive pricing and reliable execution. This expansion follows BitGo Europe’s initial MiCA licence approval from BaFin in May 2025, strengthening its regulated presence in the EU.

With custody, staking, transfer, and now trading services available under one framework, BitGo Europe positions itself as one of the few regulated custodians in the region to provide a full-stack platform. The integrated service aims to help institutions deploy capital more efficiently while maintaining security and compliance.

Monaco Launches Institutional-Grade Decentralised Trading Infrastructure on Sei Blockchain

Monaco, the decentralised trading protocol developed by Sei Labs and Monaco Research, has launched its central limit order book (CLOB) infrastructure on the Sei blockchain. The platform is designed to deliver Wall Street-level execution speeds within a decentralised framework, with the aim of capturing part of the projected $30 trillion tokenised asset market by 2034. Monaco achieves microsecond execution and leverages Sei’s 400-millisecond settlement, a major improvement over traditional T+1 settlement cycles.

Key features of Monaco’s infrastructure include a shared liquidity layer for broad institutional access, 24/7 trading support, and PitPass revenue sharing, which rewards builders and applications for contributing order flow. Unlike traditional payment for order flow models, PitPass distributes revenue transparently while maintaining best execution standards.