Markit has launched an electronic affirmation service within Markit Trade Processing (MTP). The first dealers to sign up are Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. The new service, which builds on Markit’s existing affirmation model, provides trade date affirmation and trade confirmation through industry utilities such as the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and electronically matches trades between counterparties prior to confirmation.
Date: 15 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Artificial intelligence is reshaping financial markets – but the reality on the ground is more nuanced, more uneven, and more instructive than the headlines suggest. A new A-Team Insight research programme, drawing on responses from senior AI decision-makers at...
The Financial Conduct Authority has published a research note from its synthetic data anti-money laundering project, an initiative that began in autumn 2024 and was developed with the Alan Turing Institute, Plenitude Consulting, and Napier AI to create a synthetic dataset for AML detection testing. The paper marks the culmination of that work to date...
Now in its 15th year the TradingTech Summit London brings together the European trading technology capital markets industry and examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied...