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From Broker Bias to Independent Insight: The Case for Cloud-Native TCA
For years, the path of least resistance for buy-side transaction cost analysis (TCA) was simple: let the broker do it. Historically, asset managers have relied on their execution counterparties to provide post-trade reporting. It was a workflow of convenience. Brokers executed the trades and subsequently provided the analysis on how well they performed. However, this…
From Noise to Signal: How AI is Revolutionising Data Discovery for Traders and Investment Managers
The financial markets have never suffered from a lack of data. If anything, the challenge for modern traders and investment managers is quite the opposite: they are drowning in it. From real-time pricing and news feeds to unstructured earnings call transcripts and social media sentiment, the volume of information is immense. The critical differentiator in…
The New Shape of Market Data: Why Institutions Are Moving Toward a More Modular, Machine-Readable Architecture
For decades, the market-data ecosystem has been defined by reliance on a handful of dominant vendors. Their breadth, depth and entitlements frameworks became foundational to both the trading desk and the wider enterprise. But the requirements of the modern financial technology stack have shifted dramatically. Cloud-native development, agentic AI workflows, and a proliferation of analytics-driven…
LSEG Integrates Tick History Data with Google Cloud’s Vertex AI for Scalable AI in Finance
LSEG has made its historical tick data accessible via Google Cloud’s BigQuery and Vertex AI platforms, marking a key development in its AI strategy, “LSEG Everywhere.” This integration allows financial institutions to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning directly to LSEG’s tick history data, enabling data-driven insights to support trading and risk management decisions. Using…
TRG Screen and S4 Partner to Deliver Integrated Market-Data Procurement and Operations
TRG Screen, provider of market data and subscription cost management technology, has formed a strategic partnership with S4 Market Data that brings together TRG’s operational managed-services platform with S4’s specialist procurement and negotiation expertise. The collaboration is designed to give financial institutions a single, integrated operating model across both the administrative and commercial layers of…
SOLVE Partners with Charles River Development to Integrate Predictive Pricing for Fixed Income
SOLVE, provider of pre-trade data and predictive pricing for fixed income securities, has partnered with Charles River Development, a State Street company, to integrate SOLVE’s fixed income and predictive pricing capabilities directly into the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS). The aim is to enhance market transparency and efficiency for joint fixed income…
Canoe Intelligence and Prime Buchholz Expand Partnership for Enhanced Private Markets Intelligence
Canoe Intelligence and Prime Buchholz have expanded their strategic partnership to deliver a comprehensive private markets intelligence solution, designed to provide alternative investors with rapid insights into their portfolios by connecting best-in-class capabilities across document collection, validation, and analytics. The goal is to eliminate the manual handoffs that traditionally slow down alternatives workflows, making the…
Millennium bcp Partners with Murex to Enhance Market Risk Management
Millennium bcp, Portugal’s biggest private-owned bank, with operations also in Poland and Mozambique, has entered a strategic partnership with Murex, the trading and risk management solutions vendor. The bank will adopt Murex’s MX.3 platform to strengthen its market risk management capabilities and ensure compliance with the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). The initiative…
Buy & Build: Don’t Hire Picasso to Paint Your Living Room
On this episode of FinTech Focus TV recorded at A-Team Group’s Buy AND Build Summit, Toby Babb of Harrington Starr sits down with Paul Humphrey, CEO and Elliot Banks, CPO of BMLL to discuss how historical market data is reshaping trading technology. From the shift from build vs buy to build on trust, to why…
Watching the Future: The Top 10 Surveillance and Compliance Challenges in Prediction Markets
By Joe Schifano, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus. Prediction markets are quickly becoming the next frontier of finance – a new class of markets where people trade on what they believe will happen next. From election results to interest rate fluctuations, these platforms turn collective judgment into tradable data. But as prediction markets move…