Broker Licensing Agreements Under Scrutiny as AI Reshapes Buy-Side Data and Research Market
Traditional data and research purchase arrangements may be holding back the buy-side from using artificial intelligence to take full advantage of new sources of market and other information. Restrictions associated with broker and data licensing agreements were cited as the biggest barrier to adoption of direct data and research feeds by two-thirds of global asset...
Morpho Launches ‘Midnight’ Protocol to Introduce Fixed-Term On-chain Credit for Institutional Finance
Digital asset credit network Morpho has launched Morpho Midnight, a new protocol designed to bring fixed-rate, fixed-term credit markets to DLT infrastructure. The protocol is deployed initially on Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 network incubated by Coinbase. Morpho Midnight introduces predictable underwriting terms to the decentralised finance (DeFi) space that historically has been defined by...
Broadridge Pulse Survey Says Tokenisation is a Strategic Priority
Broadridge Financial Solutions’ inaugural Tokenization Pulse survey reflects the opinions of 200 senior decision-makers across wealth management, asset management, capital markets and digital asset firms in the US and Canada. The BLUF is that tokenisation is no longer a future-state concept, as financial institutions increasingly view it as a strategic priority and are preparing for...
3forge Seeks to Simplify the Complexity of Modern Data Management Demands
The high level of data and data product use-case customisation among financial institutions offers an insight into the challenges that technology teams face in managing their organisations’ data. Observability has become more difficult as each data user tailors their tech provisions to their own business needs and data provisioning must be similarly responsive at a...
G.H. Financials Deploys Intraday Liquidity Platform from Baton Systems
London-based G.H. Financials has gone live with Baton Systems’ intraday liquidity management platform, bringing cash balances, margin requirements and collateral positions across more than 100 nostro, CCP and carry broker accounts into a single near-real-time view. The independent clearing firm, which processes over 800 million futures contracts a year for professional traders, deployed Baton’s Balance...
London Stock Exchange to Launch 24/5 Venue LSE 24, Built Around Agentic Trading
London Stock Exchange has announced plans for LSE 24, a 24/5 trading venue designed for digital, algorithmic and agentic trading, with client testing due by the end of 2026 and Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) as the first asset class in H1 2027, subject to regulatory approval. The venue will run near-continuously from Monday to Friday...
OKX Launches Tokenised Trading in 40+ Securities; Eyes Institutional Initiatives with ICE and NYSE
OKX has launched trading in more than 40 tokenised stocks and ETFs, including the so-called Magnificent Seven securities comprising NVIDIA, Tesla, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Meta, as well as the S&P 500 and Invesco QQQ indices. Observers suggest the move is an early step to establishing itself as leading hybrid trading platform for traditional...
We’ve Been Asking the Wrong Question About Tokenisation
By Julie Ros, SVP, Head of Marketing, Communications & Institutional Growth, tZERO For the past several years, the tokenisation industry has been asking the same question: What assets can we tokenise next? Treasuries. Money market funds. Private credit. Real estate. Equities. Commodities. Intellectual property. Nearly every week brings another announcement celebrating another asset moving on...
FCA Proposes FRAME Reporting Reform Within £128m Asset Management Savings Package
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed three reforms to UK asset management rules that it estimates would save firms £128 million a year. New fund reporting requirements account for most of the projected benefit, although their introduction would require technology and change projects across a sector managing £16.5 trillion. Fund Reporting for Asset Management...
Smarsh and AWS Target the Governance Gap in AI-Powered Surveillance
Smarsh recently reported what it describes as breakthrough results from its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including a 77% reduction in compliance review workload at one global investment bank. The three-month deployment analysed millions of alerts and, according to Smarsh, produced a 2% decline in true positives. The results provide an early test of...