CFTC File Format Change to Impact Futures Data Management Teams
For futures commission merchants, clearing members, proprietary trading firms, and banks with material futures and options exposure, the transition of CFTC Part 17 Large Trader Reporting to FIX Markup Language (FIXML) is a test of data management maturity. This change directly affects firms responsible for aggregating, validating, and submitting large trader position data, often across...
Osaka Exchange Adopts Nasdaq Eqlipse Technology to Modernise Derivatives Platform
Osaka Exchange has selected Nasdaq’s Eqlipse Trading and Market Surveillance platforms as part of a major modernisation of its derivatives infrastructure, positioning the exchange for increased scale, resilience, and long-term competitiveness. The deployment will see OSE adopt Nasdaq’s next-generation trading and surveillance technology as the foundation for a new derivatives platform, supporting multi-asset trading, ultra-low...
Multifonds and Ultumus Partner to Streamline ETF Operations for Fund Administrators
Multifonds, the fund administration software provider, and Ultumus, the SIX Group company specialising in ETF and index data technology infrastructure, have entered a strategic partnership aimed at removing the operational and technology constraints that continue to slow ETF adoption among fund administrators and asset managers. The partnership combines Multifonds’ fund administration and transfer agency platform...
Private Markets Growth Exposes Asset Servicing’s Infrastructure Gap
By Toby Glaysher, Chairman, FINBOURNE. Asset servicers face a paradox: winning business in the industry’s fastest-growing segment whilst discovering that growth erodes rather than enhances profitability. Private markets represent both strategic opportunity and operational crisis, exposing fundamental limitations in infrastructure built for a different era. When growth creates problems The expansion into private credit, infrastructure...
New White Paper: AI and the Operational Reality of e-Comms Surveillance
The rapid expansion of electronic communications channels has fundamentally reshaped how financial firms interact with clients, counterparties and markets. Email and Bloomberg messaging have been joined by collaboration tools, instant messaging platforms, voice calls and video meetings, all of which now sit squarely within the scope of regulatory scrutiny. For compliance teams, this proliferation has...
Exegy to Launch First Consolidated Overnight BBO Feed for After-Hours Trading Venues
Exegy is set to introduce what it describes as the first consolidated Overnight Best Bid and Offer (OBBO) feed covering all three US after-hours equity trading venues, addressing a gap in overnight price discovery as markets move toward extended and near-continuous trading models. The new feed, due to be launched within the next few weeks...
Barclays Deepens Market Data Strategy with Multiyear FactSet Agreement
Barclays has agreed a multiyear strategic collaboration with FactSet that marks a shift in how the bank is approaching market data and analytics infrastructure as part of a broader enterprise-level data strategy. The arrangement will see Barclays integrate a broad suite of FactSet products, data and technology solutions into its workflows to support data-driven decision-making...
TNS Completes Acquisition of BT Radianz, Cementing Shift in Financial Markets Connectivity
Transaction Network Services has completed its acquisition of BT Radianz, formally bringing the long-established financial markets network under the ownership of TNS and closing a deal first announced in September. Radianz, which for more than two decades has provided secure, managed connectivity between trading firms, exchanges, market data venues and service providers, now sits within...
Data Fabric vs. Data Mesh: 10 Companies Provisioning Modern Data Architectures for Enterprise AI
As institutions absorb ever greater volumes of data to meet their increasingly complex operational needs and those of regulators, they face a dilemma of how to store and distribute that critical information. Fragmented legacy systems have long been an impediment to the smooth management of data and now corralling multiple-cloud configurations can be added to...
Agentic AI Deployment Presents Potentially Dangerous Data ‘Trust Paradox’
Artificial intelligence deployment in capital markets’ data processes may be approaching an inflection point that, if not managed properly, could introduce dangerous risks to institutions’ operations. The growing deployment of anonymous agents has the potential to hardwire data errors into workflows, magnifying data weaknesses as the automating technology scales processes, according Informatica from Salesforce. The...