Are Firms Hunting Alpha Outside While Deleting It at Home?
A trading firm will pay for 15 years of price history from a market data vendor and, on a parallel housekeeping schedule, purge its own order flow, client activity and system logs after five to seven. The vendor history is treated as an asset worth a recurring licence fee. The firm’s own data – generated...
TMX Group Agrees to Acquire RAFI Indices from Research Affiliates for US$490 Million
TMX Group has agreed to acquire RAFI Indices from Research Affiliates for US$490 million, adding the fundamental-indexation franchise to its TMX VettaFi indexing and analytics business. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2026. RAFI Indices is the index business built around the fundamental-indexation methodology developed at Research...
LTX Brings Agentic Capabilities to BondGPT, Moving From Answers to Execution
LTX has added agentic capabilities to its BondGPT application, allowing users to build AI agents that monitor trader-defined market conditions, generate alerts, create a trade ticket, select dealers, launch an RFQ, accept a price and execute. It extends an application that, when it launched in 2023, was designed to answer questions: a trader could interrogate...
Behavox Secures $175 Million Investment to Expand Unified Controls Platform
Behavox has secured a $175 million preferred equity investment from funds and accounts managed by HPS Investment Partners, part of BlackRock, giving the AI-native controls platform additional capital for global expansion, product development and selective acquisitions. The investment follows a period of commercial growth for the company, which says its customer base increased 86% over...
Data Now Front and Centre of Fixed-Income Trading, Bloomberg Forum is Told
As the operations of buy-side traders and their sell-side counterparts increase in complexity, their data needs have surged. Technology that has made it possible to compress the work they do into shorter time scales and with more effective outcomes, requires large volumes of information that is either generated by their own systems or has to...
The Business Conduct Risk and Data Challenge Behind AI Adoption
Poor data preparation for artificial intelligence deployments is exposing financial institutions to greater business conduct risks that could cost them as much as US$43 million per year, according to new research. An updated report by business conduct data provider RepRisk found that such AI-related incidents are on the rise as applications are rolled out at...
Beeks Wins Three Market Edge Intelligence Deals Worth Almost $10m
Beeks Financial Cloud Group has signed three contracts worth a combined total of almost $10 million for Market Edge Intelligence, its AI-powered analytics platform, less than a year after the product launched in August 2025. The wins span a Global Tier 1 Investment Bank, an existing global financial services customer and a leading US equities...
Reg NMS Repeal Proposal Puts Routing Controls and Best-Execution Evidence Back in Focus
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a partial repeal of a two-decade-old equity market structure rule, reopening a debate over whether prescriptive intermarket price protection remains suited to the way US equities now trade. The proposal would rescind Rule 611 of Regulation National Market System (Reg NMS), the trade-through rule, and Rule...
RealQ Puts Dealer Data and Buy-Side Flow Under One Roof
TP ICAP has brought its dealer data network and its buy-side trading franchise together under a single platform, RealQ – a move aimed squarely at the half of the institutional credit market that still trades by phone. That half has resisted every electronic protocol thrown at it, and closing it is the premise on which...
The FCA’s Wakeup Call: Mature Financial Controls, Immature Trade Controls
By Becki LaPorte, Principal – AML Strategy & Innovation, FinScan. The FCA’s latest report on sanctions systems and controls delivers a verdict that compliance professionals will find both encouraging and concerning. Although financial sanctions programs have matured, trade sanctions compliance has not. The gap between the two is significant and the report highlights this clearly....