United Fintech on AI, Shared Infrastructure and the New Economics of Capital Markets Technology
AI-assisted coding may be making software easier to develop, but getting it into banks remains a complex and costly process. These challenges are also reshaping the economics of specialist fintech providers, many of which face difficulties securing investment and achieving the scale required to serve major banking clients. For United Fintech, the financial technology group...
AutoRek Builds Out AI Reconciliation Across Three Deployment Models
A global financial institution can match 98% of its transactions and still face thousands of unmatched exceptions each day. For the staff investigating those breaks, the remaining workload determines how much value automation delivers. Compliance reviewers need to trace the data behind each exception and demonstrate the reasoning behind each resolution. Founded in 1994, AutoRek...
Reimagining the Trading Desk: Integration, AI and the Future of the O/EMS
The architecture of the trading desk is evolving as financial institutions seek to simplify fragmented technology environments, extend their multi-asset capabilities and incorporate AI into trading workflows. While the convergence of order management systems (OMS) and execution management systems (EMS) has been a longstanding industry objective, the emphasis is increasingly shifting towards interoperability, shared data...
Symphony Advances AI-Powered Client Communications with Secure Agentic Workflows
Winner of Best AI Solution for Client Communications at the A-Team Group’s AI in Capital Markets Awards 2026, Symphony is extending its communications platform to support AI agents across institutional workflows and client-facing channels. Financial institutions are increasingly exploring how AI agents can improve client engagement and automate communications workflows, while maintaining the security, governance...
Zema Global Integrates SatYield Crop Intelligence into Commodity Data Infrastructure
Zema Global has expanded its partnership with SatYield, integrating the satellite-based agricultural intelligence provider’s crop forecasts into its Decisioning Infrastructure to give commodity traders and risk managers access to forward-looking supply data alongside conventional market and fundamental information. The integration extends SatYield’s earlier availability through Zema Global’s data marketplace, making its datasets accessible within the...
SEC’s 2027 Examination Priorities Detail Scrutiny of Fees, Private Assets and Technology
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) 2027 examination priorities give compliance teams more detail on how examiners will assess economic conflicts, private-asset valuations and technology oversight. Published on 23 October, the Division of Examinations (EXAMS) report also identifies tokenisation and Treasury clearing among the developments shaping examinations of market infrastructure. Many concerns carry over...
Clearwater Warns on Agentic Use in Risk Management Without Data Quality Check
The deployment of artificial intelligence agents to risk management processes without adequate attention paid to data quality will expose capital markets participants to undue vulnerabilities. The warning from Clearwater Analytics came after a survey by the company found almost all institutional investors questioned said that data quality was the biggest barrier to trusting AI outputs....
AI Has Empowered Data Users to Guide Tech Innovation: Advisory QualityAI
The traditional technology divide between an organisation’s business leaders and its engineers has been flipped in the artificial intelligence age, with end users and data consumers calling the shots in proposed pilots and making tougher demands of their software developers and data managers. The role reversal is such that AI has become a business model...
Dasseti Acquisition Provides New Private Markets ‘Chapter’ for Nasdaq
Nasdaq’s acquisition of Dasseti, a due diligence and monitoring platform, extends the exchange and data company’s interests in private markets and highlights the growing importance of the sector to capital markets investors. The deal, which was completed in September, will see the artificial intelligence-powered tools of Dasseti integrated into Nasdaq’s eVestment business, and rolled out across...
Promenaut Targets the Governance Gap in Enterprise Agentic AI
Financial institutions have invested heavily in artificial intelligence, deploying coding assistants, automated workflows and increasingly sophisticated AI agents. But how can banks translate improvements in individual productivity into meaningful efficiency gains across the organisation? And as agents take on more complex workflows spanning multiple business functions, how can institutions maintain control over their activities, access...