A $200 billion Japanese financial services firm, SBI Group, has entered into a “strategic collaboration” with decentralized blockchain oracle network Chainlink to push the growth of interoperable blockchains and digital assets in capital markets, officials say. A recent survey by SBI Digital Asset Holdings, SBI’s digital asset arm, found that among 50 financial firms, 76… Read More >>
Clearstream Banking Launches Service to Ease E.U.’s T+1
Clearstream Banking AG, the Central Securities Depository (CSD), which provides post-trade services for securities in Germany, is launching a new, automated Smart Realignment Service to manage settlement fails. The service, available in December 2025, aims to help firms manage compressed T+1 settlement timelines. Europe and the U.K. are both moving to shorter settlement cycles on… Read More >>
CFTC Bolsters Market Oversight via Nasdaq Platform
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is deploying a suite of surveillance technology services from exchanges and technology provider Nasdaq to improve the regulator’s market surveillance and fraud detection capabilities, officials say. The Nasdaq Market Surveillance platform will enable integrated monitoring across CFTC markets and will facilitate surveillance capabilities to maintain the integrity of derivative… 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 >>
SS&C Unifies Its Wealth Management Solutions: Q&A
(Earlier this month, SS&C Technologies launched SS&C Black Diamond Wealth Solutions, a suite that unifies SS&C’s Black Diamond Wealth Platform with SS&C’s full suite of wealth management solutions. The combination is a way to help wealth managers better manage technology and operations in a single location, according to SS&C. The SS&C Black Diamond Wealth Solutions… Read More >>
SEC Tackles Big Questions About U.S. Treasury Clearing
For nearly everything that broker-dealers and other market participants want to know about the clearing of U.S. Treasury securities, officials at the Division of Trading and Markets of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have compiled a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). The level of interest in the clearing of U.S. Treasuries is peaking… Read More >>
Key ICE Data Feeds Coming to Chainlink Service
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is collaborating with blockchain solutions provider Chainlink to incorporate foreign exchange (FX) and precious metals rates from the ICE Consolidated Feed into the Chainlink Data Streams data set, according to officials. The ICE Consolidated Feed offers “content from over 300 global exchanges and… Read More >>
SIFMA Updates Agreement Model for Bond Purchases
SIFMA officials report that they have updated the SIFMA Model Bond Purchase Agreement for Negotiated Municipal Securities Underwritings, which is intended for use in connection with governmental tax or revenue-supported securities such as fixed, variable rate, auction, and credit enhanced securities. The SIFMA model agreement “is not intended for use in connection with conduit financing… Read More >>
SEC Debuts Stats & Data Visualizations Webpage
Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) say that they are bringing greater transparency to public markets via the launch of a statistics and data visualization page that offers statistics and graphics on initial public offerings, exempt offerings, corporate bond offerings, reporting issuers, municipal advisors, transfer agents, and household participation in the capital markets…. Read More >>
Ultimus Expands Partnership with Xceptor
Ultimus Fund Solutions and Xceptor, maker of data automation platforms for financial markets, have expanded their six-year partnership to help Ultimus’ clients streamline operations and reduce risk, officials say. Ultimus offers fund administration, accounting, and investor solutions. The expanded partnership encompasses “global verticals and business lines” that use the data automation and reconciliation of Ultimus’… Read More >>
