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LSEG Integrates Financial Data with Model ML via MCP Connector

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has announced that its licensed data and analytics are now available on Model ML. This integration is facilitated by a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector, providing secure access to AI-ready financial content directly within financial services workflows. Model ML operates as an AI workflow automation platform specifically designed for…

TRG Screen Acquires BST America to Expand Market Data Advisory Services

TRG Screen, a global provider of market data and subscription management software for financial services and legal firms, has completed the acquisition of BST America. Based in New York, BST America operates as a specialist market data advisory and consultancy firm with more than two decades of industry expertise. This transaction extends TRG Screen’s corporate…

BondWave Updates Effi Platform with Expanded Trade Oversight and TQA Capabilities

Financial technology solutions provider BondWave LLC has released an update to its fixed income platform, Effi, introducing expanded Trade Oversight and Transaction Quality Analysis (TQA) functions. The update increases the Trade Oversight module’s capabilities by adding 14 new configurable attributes, bringing the total to 23. These new attributes, which include Execution Yield, Base Price, and…

BondWave and Fintech Global Center Announce Partnership to Integrate Fixed Income Platforms

BondWave LLC and Fintech Global Center (FGC) have announced a strategic partnership to integrate their respective fixed income platforms, Effi and FGC TMS. This collaboration embeds each system’s capabilities into the other, providing users with a comprehensive pre- and post-trade workflow within a single platform. Through this agreement, users of the FGC TMS will gain…

Bloomberg Builds Out Pre-Trade TCA Functionality to Fixed Income

Bloomberg has launched a new pre-trade transaction cost analysis (TCA) model to assist fixed-income market participants with trading decisions. The system calculates potential costs, executable volumes, and the likelihood of execution for sovereign and corporate bonds. The model uses five years of historical transaction data alongside factors such as bond age, currency and the real-time…

LSEG Data Now Available to Clients via Databricks

LSEG has expanded its partnership with data and artificial intelligence company Databricks to make more than 50 datasets from its Quantitative Analytics Database available on the Databricks Marketplace. The expansion utilises OpenSharing, an open protocol for sharing data and artificial intelligence assets, to grant clients direct access to financial and economic data within their Databricks…

Reconciliation No Longer Has Time On Its Side as T+1 Approaches

By John Bevil, senior product manager at Xceptor. Europe’s capital markets firms are entering the most consequential phase of T+1 preparation. From 11 October 2027, trades executed in European markets are expected to settle one business day after trade date, reducing the settlement cycle from T+2 to T+1. More than 4 trillion euros of securities…

When Market Data’s Cloud Migration Is Over, What’s Left Behind?

The firms furthest along with cloud have stopped arguing about whether market data belongs there. What occupies them now are the questions that outlasted the migration: where the on-premises boundary finally holds, what turns out to cost money, and whether entitlement frameworks built for headcount can survive machines that consume data at machine speed. Getting…

A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report

A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…

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…