Financial institutions have spent decades refining how they evaluate market data providers. Accuracy, reliability, latency, coverage, price. Those criteria are well understood, straightforward, and defensible in front of a decision-making committee. They’re also increasingly insufficient. The challenge is that they answer a narrowing share of the questions institutions face today. The next generation of financial… Read More >>
Corporate Actions Processing Is Ready for an Overhaul
(Corporate actions processing has many moving parts activated by market-related moves by public companies that can potentially impact securities, investors’ decisions, and stakeholders. The key steps of the corporate actions process include capture, validation, entitlement calculation, and asset or cash distribution, which has historically been a maze of automated and manual steps. However, the onset… Read More >>
Binance Platform Helps A.I. Agents Trade
Is this the start of robots taking over trading? Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is embracing agentic artificial intelligence (A.I.) across crypto and traditional markets through a new developer platform called Agent OS, which will provide a standardized access layer between A.I. applications and Binance’s trading, market data, wallet, payment, and on-chain capabilities, officials say. Agent OS… Read More >>
CME Group & Silicon Data to Launch Compute Futures
Derivatives exchanges company CME Group and GPU market intelligence and benchmarking provider Silicon Data will launch two compute futures contracts on Oct. 5, 2026, pending regulatory review, officials say. “Explosive demand has driven sharp swings in compute prices, with volatility exposing a gap in the risk-management toolkit for companies building the A.I. infrastructure. CME Group… Read More >>
Can Your Bonus Help with Barbecue Season?
It feels as if this year has been moving at a faster pace than usual, as some sectors, such as Wall Street, are suddenly in the post-bonus season. While the traditional bonus-giving season has ended, an annual estimate from Thomas P. DiNapoli, comptroller for New York State, quantifies that for many on Wall Street, it… Read More >>
Sibos II: Chainlink Pushes for a Corporate Actions Breakthrough
The Sibos 2025 conference in Frankfurt, Germany, recently concluded, but there were Ops developments on several fronts — corporate actions processing, collateral management, managed services, and financial crime prevention — which are chronicled in this news wrap. Chainlink Advances Corporate Actions Collaboration Chainlink, an Ethereum-based provider of decentralized “oracle” networks, is building upon a… Read More >>
Clearwater Analytics Updates Offerings for Alternative Assets
Investment management technology provider Clearwater Analytics (CWAN) has made “significant enhancements to its Alternative Assets Solution,” using agentic artificial intelligence technologies that will help clients manage the scalability and compliance challenges of the $2.5 trillion private credit market. Officials made the announcement at CWAN’s annual user conference, Connect ’25, held Sept. 15-17 in Boise, Idaho… Read More >>
Firms Are Finding the KPI to Validate the A.I.-Recs Union
Reconciliation and exception management processes are converging with automation and artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies, and the union could be much more than an upgrade from manual processes. If managed correctly, it could be a quantum leap forward, resulting in Ops reborn as a forward-looking trend tracking system for the front office. Yet adoption faces significant… Read More >>
Time to Investigate A.I.-based Synthetic Data?
The phenomenon of “synthetic data” — which is data that once artificially generated replicates the statistical properties of real data — is a potential new tool on the horizon for investment management operations because it can be used to improve model training, portfolio optimization, stress testing, and risk analysis, according to James Tait, an affiliate… Read More >>
Microsoft, FNZ Plot A.I. Roadmap for Wealth Management
Tech behemoth Microsoft has announced a five-year, A.I.-led roadmap to transform the wealth management industry in partnership with London-based wealth management platform provider FNZ. The initiative will include co-innovation, joint go-to-market efforts, and the development of new A.I.-powered digital wealth tools. According to bigwigs at Microsoft, the goal of the project is to reimagine the… Read More >>
