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Europe’s Consolidated Tapes Near Launch With Their Core Promises Unresolved
After nearly two decades of debate, the European consolidated tapes are now just weeks away. The equities tape is scheduled to go live in July, the UK bond tape on 22 June. Yet a panel at A-Team Group’s ExchangeTech Summit London, moderated by Scott Charity, Head of Market Structure at Berenberg, and featuring Hayley McDowell,…
SmartStream Launches Smart Agents AI Solution for Banking Operations
SmartStream has announced the launch of Smart Agents, an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) solution purpose-built for financial institutions and regulated environments. Natively integrated with Smart Reconciliations, the system is designed to streamline bank operations and can be deployed immediately without requiring modifications to a client’s existing infrastructure. The technology has already been validated through successful…
Duco Unveils Tool-Surface Architecture to Make Agents Auditable in Post-Trade
In agentic post-trade, explainability remains one of the hardest problems to solve. Agents can already read systems, draft exceptions, propose amendments and assemble workflows. What they have struggled to do – in a way that satisfies a Head of Operations facing a regulator – is leave behind an audit trail that survives scrutiny. Duco’s launch…
EquiLend and Delta Capita Partner on Spire Implementation
EquiLend has entered a strategic partnership with Delta Capita to expand implementation support for EquiLend Spire, its securities finance platform. The arrangement gives EquiLend additional delivery capacity as adoption of Spire grows across the securities finance market. Delta Capita will act as an implementation partner for new client onboarding and platform upgrades, working within EquiLend’s…
European Market Structure’s Unfinished Business, Mapped
Two decades after MiFID I set out to introduce competition into European equity markets, the regulatory project has reshaped market structure without finishing the job it was meant to do. That, at least, was the thesis put to the opening panel at A-Team Group’s inaugural ExchangeTech Summit London earlier this month, entitled “Navigating the European…
DTCC Quantifies the Capital Case for Tokenised Collateral as AppChain Nears Q4 Launch
DTCC’s new research paper on tokenised collateral, published this week with consultancy Finadium, arrives as the business-case companion to a product rollout already well under way. A day earlier, DTCC confirmed that Chainlink’s Runtime Environment would provide the data and orchestration layer for its forthcoming Collateral AppChain. The paper now supplies the balance-sheet case institutions…
DTCC to Integrate Chainlink Technology into Digitally Native Collateral AppChain
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced it will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and Chainlink’s data standards to power its new Collateral AppChain platform. This shared infrastructure is designed to modernise collateral mobility and improve capital efficiency across the global financial services industry. By integrating the CRE, the platform will gain…
LSEG Expands Access to Open Risk Analytics via Models-as-a-Service Marketplace
LSEG has integrated its Open Risk Analytics offering into its Models-as-a-Service (MaaS) marketplace, broadening access to quantitative risk models for financial institutions. Delivered through the LSEG Analytics API, the hosted service allows banks, hedge funds, and asset managers to incorporate risk calculations into their existing workflows via tools such as Visual Studio Code and JupyterLab….
ARMs Get Their Own Trade Body as Transaction Data Takes Over MiFIR Transparency
A structural shift in how ESMA calibrates the MiFIR transparency regime has handed Approved Reporting Mechanisms (ARMs) a more central role in market data infrastructure than they have held since MiFID II went live in 2018. Under the simplification programme tied to the MiFIR Review, ESMA has discontinued the dedicated reporting flows on which transparency…
OSTTRA’s HUB Deal Signals Sharper Buy-Side Push Under KKR Ownership
Post-trade solutions provider OSTTRA has acquired HUB, a SaaS provider of AI-enabled investment operations technology, in a deal that brings HUB’s platform for NAV oversight, performance reporting, trade lifecycle management and investment data into the OSTTRA network. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is the first by OSTTRA since KKR completed its $3.1 billion buyout…