Pyth and Exa Explore New Market Data Model for AI Agents
Pyth Network and AI-native search provider Exa are collaborating to explore how AI agents can combine financial market data with web-based research, potentially opening up new approaches to data distribution, licensing and consumption as agentic AI becomes more widely adopted in financial services. The collaboration, currently in an early testing phase, brings together Exa’s search...
Waypoint Launches Wayfinder to Turn Exchange Notifications into Operational Intelligence
Waypoint Trading Solutions has launched Wayfinder, a new service designed to help financial institutions manage the growing volume of operational and market-data changes communicated by exchanges. Built into Waypoint’s existing Data Notification Manager (DNM) platform and developed in partnership with SEAD Software, Wayfinder uses AI to ingest exchange notifications and convert unstructured information into standardised...
The Surveillance Challenge Behind an Increasingly Continuous Market
The shift towards 24/5 equities trading and the rapid growth of prediction markets are presenting new challenges for trade surveillance. With trading activity increasingly spanning multiple venues, instruments and time zones, identifying potential market abuse is becoming more complex, particularly where suspicious behaviour crosses traditional market boundaries. For surveillance technology providers, however, these developments don’t...
As AI Agents Enter Financial Workflows, Do Information Barriers Need to Follow?
The widely reported accidental disclosure of sensitive information at Morgan Stanley last month has brought data loss prevention (DLP) back into focus. The incident, in which an email reportedly exposed details of more than 100 investment banking deals, illustrates the risks that remain despite years of investment in communications monitoring and information barriers. The incident...
Financial Firms Confront the Next Phase of AI-Driven Compliance
Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from experimentation into day-to-day compliance operations at financial institutions, changing not only how firms monitor communications and investigate potential breaches, but also the governance, data and skills they need to support those processes. That shift was evident during a private executive roundtable hosted by compliance recording specialist Luware at A-Team...
A7 Exposé Highlights FinCrime Expertise Gaps in Product Due Diligence
Reporting by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Reuters has exposed the scale of A7, the Russia-linked sanctions-evasion network that allegedly moved $6.9 billion through global banks using front companies and forged documents. FinCEN’s subsequent findings describe a wider operation whose overseas sub-agents processed more than $17 billion between January 2025 and June 2026,...
Chainlink Launches CCIP 2.0 to Support Blockchain Interoperability, Underpins Swift Ledger Transactions
Chainlink has officially launched CCIP 2.0, marking the next generation of its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol. The upgraded protocol functions as a neutral interoperability layer designed to allow financial institutions distribute tokenised digital assets across public and private blockchains without needing to rearchitect their existing technology stacks. The launch comes as financial markets players are increasingly...
Adapting to an AI-Dominated World: Data Management Summit New York City Review
The 16th Data Management Summit New York City immersed delegates in a deep dive into the implications of artificial intelligence and associated agents as the technologies dominate discussions among data chiefs of the world’s financial institutions. In the opening Data Leaders Panel, The Evolving Data And Ai Operating Model – Synergy, Governance And Accountability, the...
Fiserv Launches Digital Asset Platform and Support for Roughrider Coin
Global payments provider Fiserv has officially launched its Digital Asset Platform (DAP) with financial institution clients, marking the initial commercialisation of stablecoin-enabled banking and payments for the vendor. The platform’s first live deployment supports Roughrider Coin, a US dollar-backed stablecoin developed for the Bank of North Dakota. This digital currency is specifically designed to optimise and accelerate...
Open USD is Live: Consortia-managed Stablecoin Looks to Remake Internet Finance
The Open USD (OUSD) stablecoin is officially live as of September 30, marking a shift in the digital asset landscape by introducing an open-architecture stablecoin designed to compete directly with traditional, single-issuer models, such as Tether and Circle. Announced earlier this year, OUSD is issued by Stripe’s Bridge unit and is operated by the independent Open Standard...