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1 week ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Emma Gould |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale
BNP Paribas is exploring whether it could use generative AI to automatically create client reports on NeoLink, the French bank’s securities services client portal launched in 2008. In March, BNPP released My Reporting, a new web app to improve client reporting in NeoLink, introducing a single dashboard, an improved user interface, and a structured library of documents and templates. “This could be one of the next steps,” Jean-Marc Freiss, chief digital services offer for BNPP’s securities services
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2 weeks ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Emma Gould |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale
US tariff announcements shook global markets as social media imagined a world of $3,500 iPhones. Much remains uncertain, including whether, come December, Norad will have the AI-leveraged data to predict whether sleigh-loads of manufactured toys departing the North Pole will reach children by December 25th. Follow for more. Announced this weekMorgan Stanley agented BSL deals now live on Versana’s data platformVersana, a syndicated loan and private credit data and tech company, added Morgan Stanley
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1 month ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Emma Gould |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale
When Scottish beer and burger chain BrewDog held its first auction on Asset Match’s private-share trading platform, offers ranged from £25 to £215 for a share in the company—it closed at £125. The deviation in prices “demonstrates the asymmetry of sophistication and knowledge” that investors had about the restaurant chain, says Iain Baillie, Asset Match’s CEO and founder. Private share trading platforms, which allow private companies’ shares to be bought and sold, are gaining more attention as
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1 month ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Emma Gould |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale
Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Big xyt, a secondary market analytics provider, is considering a bid to create the EU’s equities consolidated tape, according to three sources familiar with the company’s plans. An executive at the company confirms that they are examining whether to enter the race, but have not yet committed to following through.
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1 month ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Emma Gould |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale
Last year, the London Stock Exchange saw only 18 IPOs, according to EY, the lowest volume of listings since the accounting firm started to record this data in 2010. It’s a downward trend that is not unique to the UK. As more companies stay private longer, new ideas are needed. The UK government, for its part, is cultivating a plan for a private stock market—dubbed Pisces—featuring a new framework for multiple, separately operatedplatforms to offer intermittent trading of private company shares. S
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2 months ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Emma Gould |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale
Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Distributed-ledger technology (DLT) debuted to applause in the capital markets in the 2010s, but the hype dissipated in the wake of a series of notable failures: an abandoned platform upgrade at the Australian Securities Exchange; the public demise of FTX and its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried; and a slew of projects that failed to gain traction.
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2 months ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Bernard Goyder |Emma Gould |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie
US exchange Nasdaq is leading an effort to reform equity options fees. It’s a move that could cut costs for traders and raise them for banks—but would also remove an important revenue source for smaller exchanges. Exchanges routinely charge users an options regulatory fee (ORF) to cover the cost of monitoring cross-exchange transactions. But the fee’s application to trades ‘done away’ from a given exchange is a long-standing source of industry dissatisfaction. Now, Nasdaq has filed with the
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2 months ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Emma Gould |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale
Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Late last year, Cboe Exchange, Inc. sued the US Securities and Exchange Commission after the agency blocked a proposed rule changing how its order execution management system (OEMS), Silexx, is classified.
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2 months ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Emma Gould |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale
Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page At a closed-door industry roundtable last week, an executive from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the consolidated tape for UK equities will likely go live in 2028, according to several sources who attended the event. Hopes were that the project would coincide with the debut of the EU equities tape, some bidders for which project a go-live date in second quarter of 2026.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
waterstechnology.com | Emma Gould |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale
Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page A couple of weeks before the holidays, the Options Price Reporting Authority, the public market datafeed for US options, announced a plan to change how it distributes data. While still a proposal, technologists and market participants say it could have a big impact on how firms take in the feed.
