Fintech & Connectivity

The lure of the
ESG Agenda

Since the dawn of the 21st century Corporate Social Responsibility,
ethically conscious business and the Environmental, Social and Governance
(ESG) agenda have been key drivers in Capital Markets’ investment and
procurement activity.

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Machine Generated Content
Helping the FX sellside to
enhance client acquisition
and retention

For financial institutions and online trading platforms, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that quality content is needed to keep users…

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Deciding to ‘Build’ or ‘Buy’
Cloud Infrastructure in
the Capital Markets Sector

Technology is moving as rapidly as ever, as much in the financial sector as anywhere else. Providers promise huge advantages of expansion and…

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What does CMC’s cloud
transformation tell us
about the future of FX?

CMC Markets is always looking to invest in and adopt new technologies which will help improve the market leading service it delivers to ….

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Financial Extranets:
Creating a multi-cloud
ecosystem

In the global FX marketplace, no firm is an island unto itself. In fact, that’s the very reason that trading firms are referred to as market participants ..

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Optimizing FX STP through intelligent automation

Today’s digital and data-driven economy has placed an ever-increasing range of challenges on FX market participants. Technological advancements make it imperative that organizations re-think traditional business models, particularly addressing their digital performance and capabilities.  Customers’ demands have evolved to expect faster, more personalized and reliable digital services. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic and its fall-out […]

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Removing opportunity bottlenecks in high performance FX trading

The past five years have been a time of great change in global markets.  The uncertainty of Brexit, and the geo-political shifts associated with the American Presidential race, the global pandemic, and the circumspection around Chinese markets, have all presented challenges that have catalysed emerging opportunities, as well as the technological advances necessary to take advantage of these. 

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Supervision Technology: Why FX needs to go beyond surveillance

As FX banks focus on ensuring their controls around regulations and voluntary codes are robust, Jena Axelrod, Director of Sales, Ideal Prediction, outlines why it is essential that the technology they rely on is suitable now and in the future. Last year exposed some inconvenient truths and proved a watershed year for conduct risk, with […]

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Why credit over-allocation continues to plague prime brokers and how technology can help

The problem of over-allocation in the FX market is not a new one but has been exacerbated by the move to electronic execution, Prime Brokerage and the related increase in volume and speed. Credit is the lifeblood of execution but has always been an undervalued and poorly managed asset. It is core to every trading […]

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The three AI/ML trends to watch in 2021

By Laura Sartenaer, Strategy and Partnerships Manager, EMEA, Refinitiv Labs

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