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BST Awards 2025: Best low-latency trading network—Reactive Markets
Product: Reactive Markets
BST Awards 2025: Best buy-side managed data service—JP Morgan
Product: Fusion by JP Morgan
BST Awards 2025: Best integrated middle-office platform—73 Strings
Product: 73 Intelligence
Breaking through: Turning post-trade challenges into strategic advantage
The move to T+1 settlement in Apac is a catalyst for financial firms to modernise operations, drive digital transformation and build lasting resilience.
Digital assets: A delicate balance between opportunity and risk
The SIX Digital Assets Regulatory & Tax Service is designed to unify fragmented data sources and provide clarity around digital assets.
BST Awards 2025: Best cloud provider to the buy side—Iress Trading and Market Data (Iress TMD)
Product: Iress FIX Hub (IFH)
BST Awards 2025: Best portfolio accounting platform—SS&C Advent
Product: Advent Geneva and Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX)
LSEG and Nasdaq partner, MarketAxess’ new auctions, TXSE raises $250M, and more
The Waters Cooler: UBS executes its first tokenized fund transaction, LNRS opens APAC datacenter, MayStreet hits back in court, and more in this week’s news roundup.
New horizons: What the Nordic Cap-BMLL tie-up hints at for market data’s future
The IMD Wrap: Reb looks at Nordic Capital’s announcement last week of it purchasing BMLL to read some tea leaves.
Former Neudata employee sues for discrimination
The former head of ESG and macro data has claimed unlawful discrimination in violation of New York laws, while Neudata “strongly” disputes the allegations.
MayStreet founder says LSEG abandoned integration in new court filing
In response to LSEG’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the founder of one of its acquired companies, lawyers for Patrick Flannery have offered more details around communications between MayStreet and the exchange group.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 337: Interop.io’s Bob Myers
This week, Tony chats with Interop.io’s Bob Myers about agentic AI, the Model Context Protocol, and interoperability.
People Moves: Fitch, UBS, Cboe, S&P Dow Jones, ING, Standard Chartered, and more
A look at the past month’s people moves in the capital markets tech and data space.
SS&C’s Bill Stone: RPA still important for agentic endeavors
The fintech is leaning on almost four decades in financial services and its many acquisitions to power AI deployment and meet the market’s needs.
S&P shutters NMRF solution amid audit questions
Vendors face adverse economics due to a low number of IMA banks and prospects of regulatory easing.
As outages spread, it’s time to rethink how we view infrastructure technology
Waters Wrap: First AWS and then Azure. And these are only the most recent of significant outages. Anthony says a change is needed when it comes to calculating server migrations.
LLM firms come for finance, BMLL gets bought, LSEG users get Preqin feeds, and more
The Waters Cooler: Tradeweb completes fully electronic RFM swaptions trade, IBM cashes in on digital asset mania, and more frights and delights in this week’s news roundup.
Row breaks out over cause of FX settlement fails
One European bank blames T+1 for a 50% jump in FX fails, but industry groups dispute the claims.
SIX, ViaNexus build market data platform to unite data consumers, producers
The assets that formerly comprised IEX Cloud will underpin a new market data platform that hopes to give SIX Group and its data consumers a closer, more controlled relationship.
MSCI CEO: Vendor ‘feverishly’ infusing ‘every aspect’ of MSCI with AI
Additionally, while the vendor’s new private credit tools haven’t yet translated into outsized sales revenue, Henry Fernandez says “they will” in the future.
TMX’s CEO wonders if tokenization is a ‘solution looking for a problem’
While acknowledging the potential of tokenizing securities, John McKenzie said regulators shouldn’t move too fast, and let customer demand drive adoption.
Experts urge banks to prep for quantum’s reckoning
Mathematicians across the world warn that current encryption methods will be crackable by quantum computers inside the current decade, but banks have been reluctant to prepare.
DTCC revamps tech abilities following global reporting overhaul
The Repository & Derivatives Services unit is implementing new technologies to help its clients keep up with changing reg reporting regimes.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 336: Tokenization mania
This week, Tony and Shen talk about the topic that everyone seems to be talking about...tokenization.
Finos’ orchestration platform, digital asset hype, OMS news and more
The Waters Cooler: ISI’s sovereign debt footprint, Bolsa Mexicana’s modernization efforts, Franklin Templeton’s DeFi play, and more.