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Recorded Webinar: Holistic Conduct & Surveillance: Unifying Trade, Voice, and eComms Data with AI

Surveillance in capital markets has evolved in silos. Trade surveillance, voice recording, and electronic communications monitoring have traditionally operated as parallel control functions, each with distinct datasets, workflows and alerting logic. Yet recent enforcement actions on both sides of the Atlantic – ranging from off-channel communications failures to market manipulation cases – demonstrate a consistent...

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Kalshi Takes Prediction Markets into European Securities Infrastructure

Prediction markets are moving another step towards the infrastructure of conventional capital markets, with Kalshi partnering with FCA-regulated structured products issuer Otala.Markets to make exposure to selected event contracts available to European investors through listed securities. Under the agreement, Otala will issue securities referencing markets traded on Kalshi, beginning with contracts linked to US Federal...

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Data Management Summit London

Now in its 17th year, Data Management Summit (DMS) London returns In April 2027, to explore how to use data and AI to drive measurable business outcomes reliably, repeatedly and at scale.

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Alternative Data in Capital Markets Handbook 2026

Alternative data adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. Simply possessing a dataset is no longer a differentiator – the priority now is how data is sourced, synthesised and deployed, and how quickly granular, disaggregated signals can be turned into validated, decision-ready insight. The 2026 edition of the Alternative Data in...