Could AI Create a Judgement Gap in Financial Crime?
By Rob Cutler, Managing Director, NexusAML. AI is changing financial crime operations quickly. Routine screening, data analysis and case preparation can increasingly be automated, allowing analysts to focus their time on work that requires more investigation and judgement. That shift should improve efficiency. But it also raises a less obvious question. If AI takes on...
Archax Taps Chainlink Data to Unlock $GOVY for Collateral, Margins, Trading
Regulated digital asset platform Archax has chosen popular oracle provider Chainlink to unlock increased utility for $GOVY, its tokenised US Treasury product. Using Chainlink Data Streams, Archax will have the data needed to fully enable features like on-chain lending, collateral and treasury-management applications for banks, asset managers, and DeFi users. $GOVY alleviates the operational friction associated...
J.P. Morgan’s Kinexys Expands JPM Coin to Ethereum
J.P. Morgan has officially launched its JPM Coin on Ethereum , expanding the availability of its digital cash solution to the world’s largest Layer 1 public blockchain network. The expansion is spearheaded by Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, the banking giant’s dedicated blockchain business unit, and T=the move aims to provide institutional clients with broader, native on-chain cash liquidity that...
DTCC Whispers Availability of Production Tokenisation Service, Outlines 2027 Roadmap
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) will this month launch its highly anticipated DTCC Tokenization Service, introducing on-chain capabilities to an asset pool valued at approximately $30 trillion. According to an update shared via X on 16th October, the initiative will debut with 25 initial securities available for tokenisation, each backed 1:1 by traditional...
Substantive Research Finds AI Driving Market Data Costs Higher as Investment Research Budgets Stall
Two new studies from Substantive Research reveal contrasting commercial pressures across the financial information industry, with market data vendors seeking substantial premiums for AI-enabled access while investment research providers struggle to translate growing machine consumption into additional revenue. The findings highlight how artificial intelligence is reshaping the economics of financial information, raising questions about pricing...
Xinthesys Launches AIMOS to Automate Regulatory Requests from Trade Lifecycle Event Data
Trade and regulatory reporting specialist Xinthesys has launched AIMOS, an agentic artificial intelligence framework within its Agile Data Processing and Engineering Technology Platform (ADEPT) and the underlying event-based TradeStore repository. TradeStore is designed to be a single source of truth for event-level trade lifecycle data at scale, supporting sell-side firms processing hundreds of millions of...
FCA Market Watch 86 Reveals Material Weaknesses in MAR Surveillance
The FCA recently published Market Watch 86 highlighting a number of deficiencies in the systems, controls and governance over market abuse regulation (MAR). This follows supervisory visits to seven large retail oriented broker-dealers with high volumes of single-stock equities playing an important role in identifying and reporting potential insider dealing and exposure to other forms...
BBH Subsidiary Braid Seeks to Fill Data Transformation Hole for Financial Institutions
As data is distributed throughout an enterprise, it has to be integrated with a variety of technologies in order to bring efficiencies to different workflows. This can create a lot of manual overhead, particularly in organisations with fragmented legacy tech systems. While bolt-on point solutions exist, they tend to be custom-built for particular use cases...
InterSystems-Aegis Trace Collaboration Seeks to Give Clients AI Adoption Confidence
Data integrator InterSystems has engaged Aegis Trace to provide the tools for clients to manage their data in a way that ensures trust in their artificial intelligence-led decision making. MSDK Labs-developed Aegis Trace brings it traceability capabilities to InterSystems IRIS data platform, enabling financial institutions and other regulated industries to evidence and audit the responses...
How AI is Reshaping the Buy/Build Calculus for Capital Markets Technology
Artificial intelligence is changing the economics of technology development across capital markets, making it faster and cheaper for firms to build their own applications. But while AI is lowering the barriers to software development, it is also raising questions about long-term ownership costs, the pace of vendor innovation and where firms should focus their technology...