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Reporting overhaul: the EU’s near-impossible balancing act
Regulators must weigh their desire to streamline derivatives reporting against the need to gather crucial trade data.
Compliance startup bolsters advisory board, finalizes Series A funding
Umony has added former compliance officers from JP Morgan, as well as the FCA and the SEC.
Trust though transparency: The need for explainable AI
In this guest column, Broadridge’s Mary Beth Sweeney tells the story of BondGPT’s creation and the company’s endeavor to ensure that any user inquiries are met with traceable answers from the service.
The SIX Digital Assets Regulatory & Tax Service—Simplifying regulatory compliance
SIX‘s Digital Assets Regulatory & Tax Service is designed to simplify regulations and tax directives governing digital assets, making regulatory compliance more straightforward
Drilling down into data redistribution
A series of podcasts focusing on data redistribution across the financial services industry.
Ediphy challenges FCA, Sterling launches new OMS, and more
The UK bond tape is halted, LSEG and Databricks partner, Wells Fargo adopts TransFICC’s One API, and more in this week’s news roundup.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 333: Baseball, analytics, and therapy
This week, Tony and Shen discuss recent books they’ve read.
Will return-to-office mandates fuel market data brain drain?
The IMD Wrap: Increasingly, market data systems can be operated completely remotely. So, why are firms insisting that data professionals return to the office?
Nasdaq to deploy Calypso on AWS, expanding cloud partnership
The platform is the latest piece of tech to move to AWS as the exchange operator looks to offer more cloud-native services.
Man Group sees alpha-generating strategies from agentic AI
The firm is seeing actionable use cases from AI agents, said CTO Gary Collier, speaking at a conference in London hosted by Bloomberg.
Industry vets ally to launch full-service data consultancy
The new company combines the skills and experience of individuals and firms that each serve different needs of the data industry.
Expero sharpens focus on financial clients
After 20 years of delivering software, AI tools and digital UXs across industries, Expero is leaving its jack-of-all-trades strategy, aiming to become a master of one.
How fintechs can weather the funding winter
Investments into UK fintechs are slipping. Azimkhon Askarov, co-CEO and partner at Concryt, outlines strategies to help them through tough macroeconomic conditions in this guest column.
M&G Investments replaces research platform with Bloomberg’s RMS
The chief investment officer of the London-based asset manager explains why the firm opted to use Bloomberg’s RMS platform for its research capabilities.
LSEG’s private funds platform, Microsoft’s new datacenter, and more
The Waters Cooler: New private markets solutions, M&A activity, and a sprinkle of DLT in this week’s news roundup.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 332: DTCC’s Val Wotton
This week, Val Wotton joins the podcast to discuss the necessary steps leading up to the T+1 transitions in the UK and EU.
The TNS–Radianz deal hints at underlying issues in trader voice
Waters Wrap: As part of its cost-cutting program, BT shipped its Radianz unit to TNS, but the deal didn’t include its Trading & Command trader voice property. Anthony finds that interesting.
OEMS interest sputters
Combined order and execution management systems once offered great promise, but large buy-side firms increasingly want specialization, leaving OEMS vendors to chase smaller asset managers in a world of EMS consolidation.
BlueMatrix acquires FactSet’s RMS Partners platform
This is the third acquisition BlueMatrix has made this year.
PostSig nets $4.1M seed funding to fuel expansion
The vendor will use the funding to solidify its position tracking data contracts and to expand to other contract management needs in the capital markets and beyond.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 331: Cresting Wave’s Bill Murphy
Bill Murphy, Blackstone’s former CTO, joins to discuss that much-discussed MIT study on AI projects failing and factors executives should consider as the technology continues to evolves.
FactSet adds MarketAxess CP+ data, LSEG files dismissal, BNY’s new AI lab, and more
The Waters Cooler: Synthetic data for LLM training, Dora confusion, GenAI’s ‘blind spots,’ and our 9/11 remembrance in this week’s news roundup.
DORA delay leaves EU banks fighting for their audit rights
The regulation requires firms to expand scrutiny of critical vendors that haven’t yet been identified.
Chief investment officers persist with GenAI tools despite ‘blind spots’
Trading heads from JP Morgan, UBS, and M&G Investments explained why their firms were bullish on GenAI, even as “replicability and reproducibility” challenges persist.
Wall Street hesitates on synthetic data as AI push gathers steam
Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan have differing opinions on the use of synthetic data to train LLMs.
LSEG files to dismiss MayStreet lawsuit, citing no evidence of fraud
In its response to MayStreet’s complaint filed in May, lawyers for the exchange group characterize Flannery as having “seller’s remorse.”