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Bruce Markets and ABN AMRO Tackle the Infrastructure Challenge of 24×5 US Equities

The push towards near-continuous trading in US equities is moving beyond the question of whether execution venues can remain open overnight. Increasingly, attention is turning to whether the market infrastructure surrounding those venues, from clearing and market data to routing, risk management and operations, can support the same extended trading window. That shift is reflected...

Sigma Capital Partners MENA Selects TRAFiX for Global Equities Expansion

Sigma Capital Partners MENA Limited has selected TRAFiX’s order management system to support a new institutional trading capability, initially providing access to global equities markets. The Dubai International Financial Centre-based broker will use the platform to give clients streamlined access to global equities through a single OMS. The companies plan to extend the offering to...

Taurus Completes Hedera DLT Integration; Offers Custody, Issuance of Tokenised Assets

Swiss-headquartered digital asset infrastructure provider Taurus, which works with banks and regulated financial institutions, is now offering Hedera’s complete DLT stack, providing functionality for the custody and issuance of tokenised assets. Taurus is used by more than 40 banks and regulated financial institutions worldwide, including Deutsche Bank, CACEIS and State Street. It has built out...

Data Firms Responding as AI Seen Driving Sovereignty Concern

While the criticality of data to financial institutions has made its security paramount, the internationalisation of that information has made it a strategic priority. With ever greater volumes of data criss-crossing the world within and between organisations’ systems, data sovereignty has become a key component of governance policies required by regulators. Once considered relevant to...

Ondo Finance Backs SEC’s Proposed Rollback of Reg NMS Trade Through Rule

Ondo Finance – which operates a transaction platform for tokenised assets – has added its support to a Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) proposal to roll back the long-standing ‘trade through rule” related to Regulation NMS. The SEC’s motivation is that it now believes the rule leads to market fragmentation and increased costs, while Ondo is...

Model Context Protocol Opens Agentic AI for RegTech Platforms

As 2025 was the year GenAI took hold in RegTech solutions, 2026 is seeing the rise of AI agent adoption raising the upside for compliance automation and creating new risk surfaces. Early GenAI solutions enabled unstructured communications, policies and case files to combine with structured transaction and customer data. Early use-cases focused on productivity enhancements...

MEMX Maps Technology and Product Expansion Following TMX-BOX Deal

Two weeks after announcing its proposed US$2.3 billion combination with BOX, MEMX is beginning to map out how the enlarged group will integrate its technology, broaden its options offering and support expansion into new products and asset classes. Jonathan Kellner, chief executive of MEMX, tells TradingTech Insight that the combination will bring together three distinct...

Why Sanctions Compliance Is Becoming an Intelligence-Led Discipline

By Theodora Papadimitropoulou, head of GTM & Strategy, Third-Party Risk and Compliance. For years, sanctions compliance was closely associated with a single task, running a counterparty’s name against the relevant lists, checking for a match and acting if required. How much that tells you, though, depends heavily on the provider and the data behind the...

Oxane Partners QnA: Growing to Meet the Data Needs of Private Credit Practitioners

London-headquartered Oxane Partners was created by two former Deutsche Bank credit traders a little more than a decade ago to serve the data needs of the then-nascent private credit space. It has grown as the market has broadened. Data Management Insight spoke to managing director Kanav Kalia about the company’s beginnings, its present and its...

From AI Pilots to Always-On Compliance: The Priorities Shaping Regtech in 2026/27

Artificial intelligence is moving into live compliance workflows. That shift raises immediate questions about control: how much authority firms should give AI systems, where human review must remain, and how compliance teams can explain automated decisions to regulators and senior management. These issues will shape the agenda at RegTech Summit London on 1 October 2026....