Articles by Eliot Raman Jones
EU AI Act leaves agents in regulatory limbo
A new paper published by AI ethicists draws attention to a hole in the EU AI Act surrounding high-risk agentic systems.
FactSet and JP Morgan’s new tool, Broadridge’s proxy voting play, Fitch’s new MCP, and more
A recap of the major tech and data news from the past week in the capital markets.
Stuck in the sandbox: Why bank stablecoin projects struggle to get off the ground
Five years after a wave of banks announced stablecoin ambitions, most projects remain stuck in testing. WatersTechnology spoke to more than 25 experts to find out why an increasingly mature technology has yet to translate into production-grade bank…
Euronext eyes bigger audience with new market datafeed
The European exchange is debuting a new cloud-based offering aimed at banks and mid-size asset managers that don’t need low-latency data.
Morgan Stanley participating in Anthropic’s Claude Mythos testing
The bank is one of the select few granted access to the hyperscaler’s latest model.
Blue water rafting: How RBC’s AI Group is navigating the AI rapids
After forming its new AI Group, RBC is building a governance layer to help minimize risks posed by agentic AI.
SocGen streamlines corporate actions with Euroclear tool
The French bank is deploying the Cash+ service to help improve the elective dividends process.
SigTech’s closure amid agentic AI boom raises questions
Sources say competition from leading AI companies was too stiff to combat.
AllianceBernstein enlists SimCorp, BMLL and Features Analytics team up, and more
The Waters Cooler: Mondrian chooses FundGuard to tool up, prediction markets entice options traders, and Synechron and Cognition announce an AI engineering agreement in this week’s news roundup.
Fiber’s AI gold rush risks a connection drop
In search of AI-related profits, investors flocked to fiber cables, but there are worrying signals on the horizon.
TMX Datalinx makes co-location optionality play with Ultra
Data arm of the Canadian stock exchange group is leveling up its co-lo capabilities to offer a range of options to clients.
DTCC tests 24x5 trading, State Street launches digital asset platform, and more
The Waters Cooler: STG carves out S&P Global’s data businesses, Arcesium expands in Hong Kong, and Rimes partners with three vendors in this week’s news roundup.
RBC takes European traders to the Endgame
The Canadian bank’s complex execution algorithm, increasingly popular with traders stateside, is making landfall in Europe. But the region’s fragmented markets mean adoption is not simply a matter of plug-and-play.
Despite regulatory thaw in US, major questions remain globally for 2026
From crypto and tokenization to the CAT to consolidated tapes to T+1’s advancement, the regulatory space will be front and center in the New Year.
BNY inks AI deal with Google, Broadridge moves proxy voting to AWS, Expero delivers ICE market data, and more
The Waters Cooler: TSX Venture Exchange data hits the blockchain, SmartTrade acquires Kace, and garage doors link to cloud costs in this week’s news roundup.
Citadel Securities, BlackRock, Nasdaq mull tokenized equities’ impact on regulations
An SEC panel of broker-dealers, market-makers and crypto specialists debated the ramifications of a future with tokenized equities.
Tokenized assets draw interest, but regulation lags behind
Regulators around the globe are showing increased interest in tokenization, but concretely identifying and implementing guardrails and ground rules for tokenized products has remained slow.
Bloomberg expands GenAI summary options on Terminal
The additions include an expansion of its AI-powered news summaries, as well as a new AI summary tool for company-related news content.
Buy-side data heads push being on ‘right side’ of GenAI
Data heads at Man Group and Systematica Investments explain how GenAI has transformed the quant research process.
EY and Microsoft partner to bring agentic AI to risk management
The two firms are part of a deal to bring agentic AI processes to core operations like lending, servicing and risk, starting at Eurobank.
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.
Nasdaq looks to ramp up tokenized securities efforts
Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman wants to see tokenized securities come to the US markets “in a staged process.”
S&P’s $1.8 billion buy, an FIA restructure, a tokenization craze, and more
The Waters Cooler: CAIS creates CAISey, BNY deploys EquiLend, and more in this week’s news roundup.
Bloomberg integrates AI summaries into Port
One buy-side user says that while it’s still early for agentic tools, they’re excited by what they’ve seen so far.