SOLVE and Investortools Partner to Integrate AI-Driven Municipal Bond Pricing into Portfolio Management Platform

SOLVE, the market data platform provider for fixed-income securities, and Investortools, the investment management SaaS provider, have entered a strategic partnership to integrate SOLVE Px, SOLVE’s AI-based pricing tool, into Investortools’ Dealer Network and portfolio management system. This integration enables fixed income professionals to access real-time, predictive municipal bond pricing directly within their workflow, enhancing decision-making with up to 34% more accurate pre-trade pricing.

The solution offers indicative prices tailored to $1 million trades, complete with size- and side-specific quotes and proprietary Confidence Scores. Users benefit from access to pricing data on over 900,000 fixed-coupon municipal bonds, featuring a median margin of error of 5.7 basis points. Additional features such as real-time “Trade Assist,” targeted pricing, and “Portfolio Build” tools aim to further streamline the trading and portfolio management process.

Trading Technologies Enables Client Access to GFO-X for Regulated Digital Asset Derivatives

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) has announced new connectivity for its clients to GFO-X, the UK’s first regulated and centrally cleared trading venue for digital asset derivatives. The integration allows clients to access GFO-X via the TT platform, aligning with the exchange’s recent market launch.

GFO-X began trading Bitcoin index futures and options on 9 May, offering institutional investors expanded access to secure and regulated digital asset derivatives. With growing global interest in digital assets and easing regulatory constraints in the U.S., the partnership enables institutions to trade through TT’s advanced platform on a venue designed for transparency, performance and compliance.

Similarweb Traffic Info Integrated into Bloomberg Alternative Data Platform

Bloomberg has incorporated web analytics provider Similarweb’s web traffic data to its alternative data sets for Terminal users.

Featured within Bloomberg’s Alternative Data Analytics Platform, the Similarweb feeds will enable investors to better nowcast company key performance indicators and identify trends within company performance.

Similarweb’s web and app analytics are sourced from more than 200 million devices, 100 million websites and 4 million apps worldwide.

KGI Securities Singapore Implements Scila Risk for Enhanced Multi-Asset Risk Management

Scila AB, the risk and surveillance solutions provider, has successfully deployed Scila Risk at KGI Securities Singapore, to support its equities and derivatives operations. The implementation consolidates KGI’s legacy risk systems into a single, multi-asset platform, covering equities, commodities, FX derivatives, and Spot FX. This move enhances operational efficiency, optimises collateral usage, and provides a unified view of risk exposure across asset classes.

Scila Risk’s real-time capabilities enable KGI to monitor and calculate risk across various instruments and markets, offering greater flexibility and scalability. The platform features advanced tools such as “time warp” analysis and “what-if” simulations, equipping KGI with deeper insights into market scenarios. The adoption of Scila’s solution marks a significant step in strengthening KGI’s risk management framework, positioning it for greater agility in responding to market changes and regulatory developments.

NeoXam Enhances Gérifonds’ Regulatory Compliance Capabilities

Gérifonds, a fund management subsidiary of Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV), has expanded its long-standing relationship with software provider NeoXam, aiming to improve regulatory compliance and operational efficiency.

Operating in Switzerland’s demanding regulatory environment, Gérifonds manages 138 funds totalling CHF 21.6 billion. To navigate complex regulations – such as the Collective Investment Schemes Act (CISA) and associated ordinances (CISO and CISO-FINMA) – Gérifonds has adopted NeoXam’s Compliance solution to automate regulatory oversight.

NeoXam Compliance acts like an automated monitoring system, continuously evaluating portfolio positions for compliance breaches. If an issue arises, the system issues immediate alerts accompanied by a detailed audit trail, enabling Gérifonds to swiftly resolve breaches and maintain robust regulatory adherence.

The new capabilities build upon Gérifonds’ use of NeoXam’s GP investment accounting software, which has been in place for two decades. The combined solutions provide a streamlined workflow where anomalies are rapidly identified and resolved.

Philipp Sfeir, NeoXam’s Head of EMEA North, explained that while NeoXam Compliance comes pre-loaded with the “Swiss Rule Package,” users can add customized rules, enabling tailored compliance monitoring for investment-specific policies, including asset-type distributions and issuer concentration limits.

“In addition to the compliance offering, Gérifonds successfully utilises the latest generation of our investment accounting solution, GP4,” added Sfeir, highlighting the integrated approach Gérifonds employs to maintain operational effectiveness.

LSEG Signs Strategic Agreement to Power A5X’s New Brazilian Derivatives Exchange

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has signed a strategic agreement to supply its trading, clearing, and market surveillance technology to A5X, Brazil’s first next-generation derivatives and futures exchange. The collaboration follows a period of joint design work to adapt LSEG’s systems to Brazilian regulatory and market requirements, supporting A5X’s platform development and rapid deployment.

Under the agreement, LSEG will provide an integrated market infrastructure suite including pre-trade risk management, ultra-low latency matching, real-time surveillance, market data distribution, clearing, settlement, and risk management services. A5X will integrate these technologies into its advanced platform aimed at boosting growth, liquidity, and innovation in the Brazilian market.

A5X targets regulatory testing by Q4 2025 and plans a commercial launch in H1 2026. The partnership seeks to establish a seamless, end-to-end derivatives and futures trading ecosystem in Brazil, enhancing product innovation, price discovery, and operational efficiency.

Genesis Global Enhances Primary Bond Issuance Platform with Roadshow Tracking Tools

Genesis Global, the AI-native application development platform for financial markets, has introduced Roadshow tracking capabilities to its Primary Bond Issuance (PBI) solution. The new tools address a key industry need, as 65% of institutional investors rely on roadshow data to assess bond deals, particularly in high-yield and emerging markets.

The Roadshow functionality enables asset managers to manage the entire bond deal lifecycle within a single platform, consolidating deal information and issuer data, and integrating compliance, analytics, and order systems. By incorporating Genesis AI tools, PBI streamlines the capture of unstructured data from emails and chats, and facilitates internal book building, allowing investment teams to prepare and adjust orders ahead of deal launches. The solution enhances collaboration and provides a real-time, comprehensive market view to support more efficient, team-driven decision-making.

Sterling Trading Tech Launches 24×5 Global Trading in US Equities

Sterling Trading Tech, the order management, risk, margin, and trading technology provider, has launched 24×5 global trading in US National Market System (NMS) equities. Clients using the Sterling OMS can now access overnight trading via Blue Ocean ATS, expanding their trading capabilities beyond regular market hours.

This development is part of Sterling’s broader global expansion strategy and ongoing enhancements to its product suite, which spans multiple asset classes including equities, options, futures, fixed income, mutual funds, FX, and crypto. The new service allows clients to benefit from direct routing and market data access through Blue Ocean, along with enhanced APIs that automate margin rate adjustments for overnight trading.

Proof Group Launches First-Ever Block Explorer for the Canton Network

Proof Group, specialists in digital assets and emerging technologies, has announced the launch of the first block explorer for the Canton Network, the public blockchain for the financial industry. The new tool offers real-time access to transactions, participant activities, and network performance. Key features include balance histories, validator monitoring, actor profiles, and a live feed of network activity, with future updates set to add tokenomics tracking, governance insights, and application usage metrics.

Built with proprietary technology, the Canton Block Explorer aims to set a new standard for transparency in private blockchain environments, delivering functionality comparable to public tools like Etherscan but tailored to Canton’s privacy-focused structure. Proof Group plans to expand the platform with an Applications Layer, offering deeper insights into decentralised finance and enterprise activities on the network.

New Products from Snowflake Unveiled at its Annual Summit

Snowflake has announced a slew of new products at its annual “summit”. The data management platform unveiled a new ingestion service called Openflow, which uses open standards and Apache NiFi.
It also took the covers off Gen2 Standard Warehouse and Adaptive Compute that accelerates performance and improvs usability; introduced an Intelligence and Data Science Agent to enable users to ask natural language questions to extract insights from tables and documents; revealed Cortex AISQL and SnowConvert AI that integrates generative artificial intelligence into SQL queries.
Additionally, Snowflake said it had updated its data marketplaces. The event was held in San Francisco.