big xyt welcomes Phil Lemmon as Head of TCA Sales EMEA
18 November 2024, London: big xyt, a leading AI-analytics company for global financial markets, is pleased to announce the appointment of ...
Starting Your Enablement Journey
In this episode of Seismic Sessions, hosts Gemma Livermore and Rachael Rowe are joined by Morgane ...
How End-to-End Customer Journeys Generate Profitability and Growth in B2B Sales
In this episode of Seismic Sessions, hosts Gemma Livermore and Rachael Rowe are joined by Nils ...
Key executive hires at WellStat poised to accelerate growth
NEW YORK, NY, October 10, 2024 – WellStat, a leader in energy management and indoor air quality (IAQ) ...
Protecting the Brand
Join Seismic’s Rachael Rowe and Gemma Livermore as they are joined by Alanna Nensel, Janus Henderson ...
David O’Hara Appointed Managing Director of MKP Advisors USA
New York, London – October 2nd, 2024 – MKP Advisors (MKP), a leading global advisory firm, is pleased ...
Are trading firms ready to adapt? New report highlights shifting employee expectations
London, 26 September 2024 – Sustainable Trading, a membership organisation dedicated to improving the sustainability of the ...
The Evolution of Commercial Roles in Financial Services
Jen Adams, Chief Commercial Officer at Virgin Money Investments, and Michelle Booth, Head of Growth, Activation ...
Neter to align capital markets with protecting nature’s assets
London – 19 September 2024 – Neter, a new company focused on mobilising capital markets to protect Earth’s ...
The Hedgehog Theory for Enhancing Team Performance
In this episode of Seismic Sessions, hosts Rachael Rowe and Gemma Livermore are joined by Zarina ...
TD Securities Appoints Carl Hayes as Head of European Cash Equities
London, UK – August 29, 2024 – TD Securities (TDS), a global corporate and investment bank offering integrated capital ...
How Wealth Managers can use tech to navigate consumer duty
In this episode of Seismic Sessions, hosts Gemma Livermore and Rachael Rowe are joined by industry ...
Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse Selects Baymarkets Clara Clearing System to Support New Commodities Exchange
STOCKHOLM/SINGAPORE, July 16, 2024 – Baymarkets AS (“Baymarkets”), and Abaxx Technologies Inc. (NEO:ABXX)(OTCQX:ABXXF) (“Abaxx”), today announced that ...
Enablement for learning and coaching
Seismic’s Gemma Livermore and Rachael Rowe discuss the evolution of learning and coaching in financial services ...
Mujtaba Khalid, Islamic finance thought leader, joins XTCC Advisory Team
London, UAE, 8th July – XTCC, the pioneer in exchange-listed, high-integrity carbon credit investment assets, is pleased ...
Leading Financial Markets Lawyer Ciarán McGonagle Joins Tokenovate as Chief Legal and Product Officer
Cambridge, 1st July 2024 – Tokenovate, a company specialising in trade lifecycle event management, is pleased to ...
UST Clearing – Kickstarter
In this inaugural episode of Tonic Boom!, the conversation is dedicated to US Treasury Clearing (USTC), ...
MKP Advisors Welcomes Thomas Nienaber to Strengthen Event-Driven Research Team
London, June 20th, 2024 – MKP Advisors (MKP), a leading global advisory firm, is pleased to ...
Kurt Adams to Succeed Bob Santella as CEO of IPC
New York – May 29, 2024 – IPC, a leading provider of trading communications, electronic trading and ...
Tony White Joins MKP Advisors as Partner
London, May 28, 2024 – MKP Advisors (MKP), a leading global advisory firm, is pleased to announce that Tony ...
How coaching technology is bridging the gap for DEI
The debut episode of Seismic Sessions explores DEI in financial services, highlighting enabling employees, diverse voices, ...
GMEX ZERO13 Collaborates with HyperloopTT’s Innovation Management Platform “Lucy” for Sustainable Innovation
London & Los Angeles, Calif., 9th November 2023 — GMEX Group’s ZERO13, a leading advocate for achieving Net Zero ...
3forge Accredited for SOC 2 Type II Certification
New York, London, Singapore – 9 Nov, 2023 – 3forge, the leading provider of award-winning technology for ...
Orora collaborates with World Health Innovation Summit
London, 26th September 2023: Orora, a leading London Based FinTech for Good, is thrilled to announce ...
Standing up for the ‘Mittelstand’ – the unsung heroes of the UK economy
Today, small- to medium-sized companies (SMEs) represent some 90% of all businesses in the UK – ...
Industry expert Olaf Ransome joins Planixs as Liquidity Futurologist
Providing cross-enterprise liquidity management expertise, market trends and insights LONDON, NEW YORK, SINGAPORE, 20th September 2023 ...
Elevating Trust: The Significance of Unconflicted Custody in the Digital Asset Landscape
At their core, digital asset exchange-traded products (ETPs) effectively remove barriers associated with utilizing digital asset ...
DAR In Conversation: Q&A with Jack McDonald
As part of DAR’s September Crypto ETP Monthly Recap Report, Digital Asset Research incorporated a guest ...
Template for change – how corporate initiatives are empowering women smallholder farmers in Malawi
Introduction Similar to most African nations, agricultural output is vital to the economy of Malawi and ...
Standard Custody & Trust Company and GSR to Offer Clients Secure Settlement and Escrow Services
New York, August 30, 2023 – Standard Custody & Trust Company, LLC (“Standard Custody”), a New York ...
The launch of MG Stover Placement Services
Matthew Stover, President at MG Stover, and Brian Wolf, Chief People Officer at PolySign, talk about ...
Jacobi Asset Management lists Europe’s first spot Bitcoin ETF on Euronext Amsterdam with a decarbonisation strategy
London, 15th August, 2023: Jacobi Asset Management (Jacobi) has listed Europe’s first spot Bitcoin ETF on Euronext Amsterdam. ...
TNS and TRAFiX Launch Trading Infrastructure Partnership
15 August 2023 – RESTON, Va. – Transaction Network Services (TNS) today announced a partnership with next-generation trading ...
TNS Dedicated Server Expands with Comprehensive Cloud – Server Management Suite
August 1, 2023 – RESTON, Va. – Transaction Network Services (TNS) today extended the build out of its ...
Bringing a Heritage Brand into the Digital Age
Sean Kiernan, Greengage CEO, sat down recently with Ali Walker, CCO at luxury & heritage brand Asprey ...
Standard Custody partners with L1 Advisors to offer industry-first integrated qualified custody and self-custody services
New York, July 27, 2023 — Standard Custody & Trust Company, a NYDFS chartered company providing institutional-grade ...
Johannesburg Stock Exchange and big xyt launch new joint venture company – big xyt ecosystems
26 July 2023, London and Johannesburg: big xyt, the independent provider of smart data and analytics solutions ...
How digital assets and blockchain technology can drive ESG goals
Rosenblatt & Memery Crystal Breakfast Briefing – 6 July 2023 At the latest in our regular ...
Setting the Standards Blog Series: Part 1 The Foundation of Fund Administration for Digital Assets
In the first of MG Stover’s multi-part blog series, Josiah Reich, COO, Fund Services, and Michael ...
IPC Partners with CryptoStruct to Provide Market Data to the Connexus® Crypto Trading Environment
London and Hamburg – July 18, 2023 – IPC Systems, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications ...
McKay Brothers Distributes Cboe UK Cash Equities at LSE at Lowest Known Latency
July 18, 2023 (London & Geneva) McKay Brothers International SA (MBI) launched its newest lowest known latency ...
Safeguarding Rule | Blog Series: Part 4 — Our Take on the New Safeguarding Rules
In the last of PolySign’s blog series, Patrick Clancy explains how improving the definition of Qualified ...
The Path to Sustainable Trading: Exploring diversity and sustainable practices at industry events
Sustainable Trading reflects on the diversity and inclusion seen at industry events and summarises their survey ...
TechPassport introduces Greengage, digital merchant banking pioneer, as new client, diversifying the platform users
LONDON – 29 June 2023 – TechPassport, the leading SaaS provider connecting financial institutions with enterprise ready ...
Is the Crypto Asset Industry Growing Up? Key Drivers for Institutional Adoption
In a recent episode of The Gage, Sean Kiernan, CEO of Greengage, talked to Tim Grant, ...
Safeguarding Rule | Blog Series: Part 3 — The Intersection of Digital Asset Regulations and Compliant Solutions
In the third instalment of PolySign’s blog series on the SEC-enhanced safeguarding rules, Patrick Clancy writes ...
Up, up and away – managing data in the Cloud
In the world of finance, market and reference data management is a critical function supporting trading, ...
TNS Upgrades European Backbone
June 20, 2023 – RESTON, Va. – Transaction Network Services (TNS) has enhanced its European backbone, delivering increased ...
GMEX ZERO13 and Zumo collaborate on new carbon credit offering for banks and corporates
London, 19 June – ZERO13, a GMEX Group initiative providing a digital climate fintech aggregation ecosystem, and ...
Beeks Group and IPC to Power Customer Private Cloud Deployments for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
NEW YORK, NY and GLASGOW, UK – June 19, 2023 – Beeks Group, a leading managed cloud computing ...
Regulation: markets’ friend, data management’s foe?
Derivatives markets participants have been – figuratively – under the regulatory cosh for years and particularly ...
Data everywhere, all at once: data management challenges for sell-side firms
In the ever-evolving global financial marketplace, effective market and reference data management is an ongoing challenge. ...
Safeguarding Rule | Blog Series: Part 2 Considerations for the Proposed SEC Custody Rules
This is the second of our PolySign’s blog series on the SEC enhanced safeguarding rules. In ...
Vendors & Procurement
The intersection of technology and financial services is a celebrated hotbed of innovation. Indeed, whether in ...
The Future of Post Trade will be driven by Collaboration, not Isolation
The importance of technology was highlighted during the pandemic as people around the globe were forced ...
Out on a Ledger: How the advent of Exchange 4.0 will transform trading ecosystems
A growing number of exchanges and trading firms are embracing distributed ledger technology (DLT) and tokenisation, ...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Financial Technology Leaders
Over the past year, the advent of the global pandemic has challenged us all to demonstrate ...
Tailor-made trading desks: How the buy side is embracing an outsourcing model
A rising number of asset managers across the globe are exploring the idea of outsourcing some ...
Data-As-A-Service: Delivered live and seamlessly into your client workflows
Providers of data-driven services (E.g. Prices, IOIs, Axes, Auctions, Reference Data) are telling us that they ...
Addressing the challenges of selling software and technology into the Financial Markets sector
Selling technology and software into the financial markets sector is a challenging proposition. Sales cycles can ...
Time for Another Reality Check: How Close Is the Blockchain Revolution in Capital Markets?
Blockchain may have yet to fulfil its promise but progress, albeit slowly, is being made in ...
Building the Bridges of Post-Trade Pragmatism
Across the capital markets industry, the current global pandemic has placed a renewed focus on resilience. ...
Fintech’s next frontier: Data-as-a-Service
Data-as-a-Service can provide easy access to live streaming data and analytics at any time and anywhere. ...
Evolution, not Revolution for Custodians
Restructuring the business model of global custodians has been compared to changing a jet engine in ...
Navigating strict privacy regulations in a MiFID II world
Recent regulations have obliged financial services companies to provide greater visibility into their operations. The European ...
Taming the Mobile Beast: How can mobile devices and trading floors work together under MiFID II?
The use of mobile devices in a trading environment has been a contentious issue for as ...
Unlocking the Post-Trade Puzzle: New Approaches to Solving the Issue of Operational Costs in the Post-Trade Environment
Following the 2008 financial crisis, the US and European approaches to reforming the financial sector were ...
Seizing the Opportunity: Understanding the Reality – Capitalising on the Growth of Instant B2B Payments
Across all channels, client segments and geographies, payments are getting faster – even if not always ...
Doing the Right Thing: Why Financial Institutions are Banking on Accessibility
In June 2018, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published version 2.1 of its Web Content ...
The Crypto Challenge: Boosting Institutional Trading in a Fast-Evolving Market
In this article, Mike O’Hara and Adam Cox of The Realization Group examine the prospects for ...
Singapore’s FX Take Off: How Singapore Aims to Become the Price Discovery Venue for Foreign Exchange in Asia
In 2018 the Hollywood movie Crazy Rich Asians became the highest grossing romantic comedy for more ...
Accessing Asia Pacific Liquidity: Capitalising on Opportunities in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape
In comparison to relatively stagnant rates of growth in the US and Europe, the dynamics of ...
Regulation Technology: Enabling More Than Compliance
One of the major outcomes created by the financial crisis has undoubtedly been the marked rise ...
All on the Same Page? Effective Strategies for Successful Innovation in Capital Markets
Innovation within the capital markets sector remains one of the key factors in ensuring its continued ...
Capture, Correlate, Analyse: Deriving Value From Electronic Communications Data
In our latest Financial Markets insights report, Dan Barnes and Mike O’Hara of The Realization Group ...
The value in being heard
Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) have the potential to significantly increase the efficiency ...
HPC Strategies for Financial Services: The Playing Field Widens
The financial marketplace today is dominated by growing regulatory requirements, constantly changing liquidity conditions and increasingly ...
Changing Landscapes: Electronic Trading Picks Up the Pace in Commodity Markets
While electronic trading, technology and related infrastructures are now a well-established, if not essential, part of ...
Cleared for launch: A new era for OTC derivatives
Buy-side users of OTC derivatives face many uncertainties as they prepare for mandatory central clearing in ...
Systematic Internalisers – Data holds key to challenges and opportunities in MiFID II era
MiFID II broadens the scope of the systematic internaliser (SI) regime, not only to cover more asset ...
Taking the Leap into Asia and Cryptocurrencies: The Future for FX Trading?
As the world’s largest financial market, the ability to swiftly identify and capitalize on key trends in ...
Alpha profiling, strategy toolkits, broker scorecards: The keys to best execution?
Various tools are emerging to help buy-side firms optimise their broker selection for best execution. Examples include algo wheels, ...
AI and Deep Learning in Risk and Investment Management
Deep learning, or the ability of machines to learn using artificial neural networks, has been around ...