Bridgewise and the Expanding Universe of Sentiment Data
Investment firms today face a growing challenge with alternative data: how to turn an ever-expanding universe of unstructured content into something that can be analysed systematically. Social media, news articles, disclosure documents and, increasingly, podcasts can all contain information relevant to investment decisions. But before that material can be useful to quantitative or discretionary investors,...
What a $3bn YipitData Valuation Says About the Value of Alternative Data
Carlyle-backed YipitData is reportedly exploring a sale that could value the alternative data and analytics provider at between $2.5 billion and $3 billion, offering a useful indication of how investors are valuing proprietary data assets as artificial intelligence reshapes the information industry. The prospective sale comes as the rapid development of AI is prompting investors...
What the Regulator Wants to See as AI Governance Moves from Policy to Proof
Over the past 18 months, generative AI (GenAI) based solutions have progressed from pilots into mainstream investment and trading processes, including risk and compliance. With the exception of the prescriptive risk-based EU AI ACT, regulators across jurisdictions are relying on existing rule-books and adopting a principles-based approach, rather than publish AI specific regulations. To get...
Rimes Configures Capabilities into New Fabric to Scale AI Data Workflows
Rimes has built out its data management and investment intelligence offering to give clients a new unified suite of capabilities that can accelerate and scale their artificial intelligence-powered data and workflows. Intelligence Fabric for Capital Markets adds new functionality to the New York-headquartered company’s services, seeking to meet the increasingly complex data needs of asset...
Integral Survey Points to API Infrastructure as Key to Corporate FX Automation
Corporate FX execution could see a significant shift towards API-driven and embedded workflows over the next five years, but the pace of change will depend heavily on whether banks and corporates can overcome integration challenges, according to a new survey from Integral, the currency trading and workflow automation solutions company. The survey, covering 143 corporate...
BNP Paribas Backs OSTTRA’s Push for More Efficient Post-Trade Infrastructure
BNP Paribas has become the latest global bank to take a strategic equity stake in OSTTRA, joining Bank of America, Barclays, Citi, HSBC, Wells Fargo and UBS Investment Bank in the post-trade infrastructure provider’s investor consortium. The move, announced on 25 August, leaves funds managed by KKR as OSTTRA’s majority owner and expands the group...
The Missing Audit Trail in Agentic Workflows
As investment firms move AI agents out of experimental environments and into live workflows, the governance problem is becoming harder to ignore. Much of the early discussion around agentic AI has focused on what agents can do: retrieve information, call tools, analyse data, generate recommendations and increasingly act on behalf of users. Once those agents...
LayerZero Announces ATLAS, a Universal Blockchain-based Headless Exchange
Financial markets infrastructure developer LayerZero has announced ATLAS (for Aggregated Trading Liquidity and Settlement), a universal “headless exchange” built to power “the future of global markets.” Based on the company’s Zero blockchain, it combines matching, clearing, settlement and risk into a single integrated technology stack and provides the performance and fairness of a traditional exchange...
tZero and Sui Partner to Offer High Performance Institutional-Grade Tokenisation
tZERO Group announced a strategic partnership to integrate with the Sui blockchain, which is continuing to establish itself in the financial markets and payments space. Through the partnership, tZERO’s US-regulated trading, custody, and issuance framework will now support the Sui’s high-performance blockchain to offer institutional-grade tokenisation for projects currently building on the network. With more...
SEC Proposes “Regulation Crypto Assets” to Address Digital Assets Innovation while Congress Moves Slowly on CLARITY Act
In a move that was somewhat surprising given its timing, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unveiled a new regulatory proposal titled “Regulation Crypto Assets“ that is expected to have significant impact not only on those involved in launching native crypto assets but also for the general digital assets and tokenisation space. The SEC’s...