Most City Mega Mergers Test Tech More Than Balance Sheets
By Gus Sekhon, head of product, FINBOURNE Technology. The City loves nothing more than a takeover tale as old as time. A US$2.5tn US asset management behemoth snapping up one of London’s most historic investment houses for £10bn sounds like a story of global ambition and deep pockets. The Schroders brand stays, the headquarters remains...
smartKYC QnA: Accelerating Due Diligence at Scale
Hugo Chamberlain is the chief commercial officer of UK-based smartKYC, which has been automating the KYC process since 2014. Data Management Insight spoke to Hugo to find out how the company is helping financial institutions streamline their onboarding processes. Data Management Insight: Hello Hugo. When was smartKYC created and how does it serve financial institutions?...
Archive360 Girds Clients for Demise of the Single-Provider Data Pipeline
The future is fragmented. So says George Tziahanas, associated general counsel and vice president of compliance at data governance platform provider Archive360, who argues that the days of monolithic, front-to-back, one-size-fits-all data services providers may be numbered. Artificial intelligence has become both the hammer to break up single-provider data pipeline technology and the glue to...
Swap Data Was Supposed to Deliver Transparency. A Decade Later, Regulators Are Still Trying to Use It
For more than a decade, regulators have collected vast quantities of derivatives transaction data through swap data repositories (SDRs) mandated by post-crisis financial reforms. Yet despite the scale of these datasets, transforming reported trade data into meaningful supervisory insight has often proved more difficult than policymakers anticipated. A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the...
Breaking Conway’s Law: Why Composable Trading Platforms Demand Organisational Change, Not Just Better APIs
Nearly 60 years ago, Melvin Conway observed that an organisation’s technology will inevitably mirror its internal structure. It’s a law that has aged uncomfortably well in capital markets, where billions spent on trading, risk and analytics systems have produced vertical stacks that reflect business-line org charts rather than the horizontal data flows firms now need...
SOLVE Targets Fixed-Income Quote Comparability with Augmented Data Launch
SOLVE, the market data platform provider for fixed-income securities, has expanded its Quotes platform with the launch of Augmented Quotes for municipal bonds and USD-denominated fixed-rate corporate bonds, adding consistently calculated price, yield and spread datapoints to help users compare dealer quotes more effectively. The company said the enhancement will be available not only within...
The End of the “Toughest Regulator” Model? Rethinking Global Surveillance Strategies
For years, global banks have built surveillance programmes around a simple assumption: meet the expectations of the toughest regulator and the rest of the world will fall into line. If a compliance framework could satisfy authorities in the United States, United Kingdom or European Union, the same controls could usually be applied globally with only...
Exegy and STRANDS Target Institutional Workflows for Prediction Market and Digital Asset Data
Exegy and STRANDS have announced a partnership to bring real-time prediction-market, digital-asset and smart-contract data from centralised and decentralised venues into Exegy’s Axiom consolidated feed service, with initial content scheduled for delivery in May 2026. The announcement extends Exegy’s market-data offering into a broader set of emerging asset classes and data types, including prediction markets,...
Corastone Adds Institutional Backers as Private Markets Look to Standardise Data and Workflow Infrastructure
Corastone has added Fidelity Investments, Future Standard and Hamilton Lane as investors in its private-markets platform, expanding the group of institutions backing the company. The announcement follows the platform’s launch in November 2025 and reflects growing industry interest in technology designed to support the increasingly complex data and operational requirements of private-market activity. While the...
Re-Architecting Regulatory Reporting with REGnosys and Open Source
Regulatory reporting has long been defined by highly specialized jurisdictional knowledge, templates, spreadsheets, and a significant part of the compliance budget. Regulators publish new requirements, firms interpret them independently, technology teams build extraction and transformation layers, and operations teams reconcile outputs before pushing formatted datasets to supervisory authorities. RegTech Insight sat down with regulatory reporting...