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How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Trading Desktop Interoperability

As banks and investment firms look to bring agentic AI into trading operations, the challenge is increasingly one of architecture: how to give AI access to the applications and context it needs while maintaining control over its actions. HERE, the financial desktop technology provider formerly known as OpenFin, recently held sessions with tier-one banks and...

Nosible Moves Beyond Event Data with Point-in-Time Global Intelligence Graph

Nosible, the AI-driven alternative data provider, has launched World V2.0, an enhanced global event database designed to help institutional investors extract structured intelligence from the vast quantities of unstructured information published online. The release also underpins Atlas, the company’s recently introduced knowledge graph, which connects organisations, individuals, products and locations through historically traceable relationships. The...

ESG Ratings Use Seen in Decline But AI, Increased Regulation Could Lift Their Popularity

ESG ratings still play an important part in investors’ due diligence processes, but they are no longer among the leading sources of information guiding their decisions, a recent survey has concluded. Increased scrutiny of ratings agencies by regulators and government bodies, as well as improved means of gathering ESG data, mainly through the use of...

73 Strings’ Structured Data ‘By-Product’ Fuels Workflow Acceleration After Callisto Acquisition

French startup 73 Strings realised a couple of years ago that one of the by-products of its valuation platform was a trove of structured, standardised and consistently labelled data drawn from private markets. This, reasoned Chief Executive and Co-Founder Yann Magnan, was financial gold in a part of the financial sector that has traditionally been...

Ahead of Tokenised Securities Trading, NYSE Expands Roster of Authorised Transfer Agents

In preparation for the launch of its tokenised security trading platform and affiliate venue, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has expanded the roster of companies authorised to provide transfer agent services for digital assets. Joining Securitize and tZERO, which have already entered into agreements with the NYSE, are Broadridge Financial Solutions, Computershare, Equiniti and...

Securitize and Stellar Plan Integration to Support Regulated Financial Transactions

Tokenisation platform Securitize plans to integrate with the Stellar network, making it the 17th blockchain ecosystem that it supports. Stellar joins prominent financial markets networks including Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche – and adds regulated, SEC-registered transfer agent infrastructure to Stellar’s increasingly popular financial rails. As a result, the partnership will offer global asset managers a...

11 Leading Analytics Data Providers Transforming Capital Markets

Data exists for a purpose – to be used – and in modern capital markets, there is an increasing array of use cases to which information can be deployed. Chief among those is analytics, divining meaning and insight from the vast volumes of data that is available internally and from third parties. Sourcing the right...

Can You Explain Your Compliance Decisions? RegTech Summit New York Examines the Evidence

RegTech Summit New York returns on 19 November for its tenth year, bringing regulators and practitioners together to examine compliance, data and artificial intelligence (AI). Across the agenda runs a question with consequences for compliance innovation: can firms demonstrate that their controls work and explain the decisions they produce? When a regulator challenges a reporting...

Tavira Expands AQXT Partnership to Centralise Post-Trade Data and Automation

Tavira Financial, the independent multi-asset agency brokerage and institutional trading platform, is expanding its use of AQX Technologies (AQXT) to consolidate post-trade data and automate operational processes across its business. The development builds on a relationship spanning more than six years, during which AQXT’s XDESK platform has evolved into a central component of Tavira’s post-trade...

Eurex Clearing Unveils Hybrid CCP Model to Integrate Traditional and Digital Securities

Eurex Clearing has announced plans to become what it describes as the world’s first hybrid central counterparty (CCP), integrating traditional and digitally native securities within a single clearing framework, rulebook and risk model. The initiative will allow market participants to trade, clear and finance digital instruments using their existing clearing relationships and infrastructure. Under the...