Clearstream Pulls Tokenised Securities into the Institutional Collateral Stack
The Deutsche Börse Group CSD’s partnership with Ondo Finance and 360X places tokenised equities and ETFs inside regulated European post-trade infrastructure, starting with US names – and sets up a two-way bridge between traditional collateral pools and on-chain venues. Clearstream has taken a visible step towards integrating public-blockchain assets into its institutional post-trade infrastructure, partnering...
Private Market GPs Unhappy with Data Availability, Unsure About AI Value
General partners (GPs) within the private equity space are dissatisfied with the quality of data available to them at a time when technology is rapidly transforming the sector. Despite being upbeat about the prospects for deals in the coming year, fund allocators are more pessimistic about their operations amid a shortage of digital operational and...
Beyond the Benchmark: Bloomberg Extends BCOM for a Fragmented Commodity Market
When the Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM) was launched in 1998, the architecture made sense for its time. Liquidity in commodity futures was concentrated in North American contracts denominated in US dollars, and the methodology was built accordingly. Twenty-eight years later the way global commodity markets operate and the way institutional investors want to access them...
Voice UI – An AI Revolution in Trading UX?
By Ivan Kunyankin, Data Science Team Lead at Devexperts. We’re now three and a half years since LLMs burst into the mainstream, following the public release of ChatGPT at the close of 2022. It would go on to be the fastest growing consumer application in history, amassing more than 100 million users in two months....
RepRisk Roundtable London: Tackling Hidden Sustainability Risk in Private Markets with AI
Sustainability risk is moving into the core of capital markets decision-making, closely tied to conduct risk, counterparty exposure and reputational impact. For senior leaders across risk, investment, compliance, sustainability, and supply chain functions, the question how to interpret complex signals from vast quantities of data and apply them with confidence in credit, investment, and operational...
Why Data Quality Isn’t Always What the Textbook Says It Is
The standard taxonomy for data quality – accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, point-in-time integrity, lineage – is easy to find in any vendor deck or industry guide. It is also increasingly beside the point. What the institutional buy side actually measures, and what it cares about when money is on the line, diverges sharply from that...
Fitch Opens New Chapter with Data Distribution and AI Strategy
Fitch Solutions’ recent extension of its distribution strategy to include a presence on Snowflake is the first step in a programme of leveraging the company’s huge cache of credit ratings and research data. The move, which saw Fitch add its core credit ratings products on Snowflake Marketplace earlier this year, will be followed by other...
FCA and Turing Institute Collaborate on Synthetic Data to Advance AML Detection
The Financial Conduct Authority has published a research note from its synthetic data anti-money laundering project, an initiative that began in autumn 2024 and was developed with the Alan Turing Institute, Plenitude Consulting, and Napier AI to create a synthetic dataset for AML detection testing. The paper marks the culmination of that work to date...
Waystone Positions ManCo Platform as Infrastructure for Global Fund Expansion
For asset managers expanding into new markets, launching funds across jurisdictions means navigating different supervisory expectations, different disclosure regimes, different distribution rules and different interpretations of similar underlying obligations. The operational burden is growing at the same time as managers remain under pressure to control costs, protect margins and bring products to market faster. That...
DTCC Takes Core Clearing Infrastructure to Public Cloud in Landmark Migration
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is migrating core clearance and settlement systems to a public cloud infrastructure for the first time, in a move that marks one of the most significant architectural shifts in US post-trade infrastructure since the organisation’s formation. The announcement, made on 15 April, confirms that DTCC will use Amazon...